Apple's obsession with the letter i - why and when will they drop it?

[kdarling]

I say, thank goodness for the iNames.

After all, Jobs reportedly wanted to call the iMac the MacMan.

What would've been next? PodMan. PadMan. PhoneMan ?

Woof 🙂

 

[jodelli]

iMac dump the floppy in 1998. Broad band just started becoming a common word in about year 2000 and I would say it became common for affluent people to have it in about year 2002-2003.

So you have a 2-4 year gap in there that there was no alternative. Again you are a little off on your history. Remember in 1998 not everyone had dial up yet and no way to even send email files over the internet. Hell inbox size was crap until google came along.

It was about that time I seriously started networking my computers. I'd dabbled in Apple Talk and direct links via serial cable, but the easiest way to back up the iMac was with a crossover RJ 45 cable to my maxed out 9500 with a G3 in it. Twin 10,000 rpm SCSI drives did the trick.

 

[Abstract]

Cite please on who these "people" are.

Many, many polls and threads on this very topic have been started here. If you see enough of them, it's pretty clear.

I tried to search, but it's hard to search for the letter "i", even when you quote it in the search query itself.