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what does the "i" stand for?

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nazariteguitar

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OK, call me a Mac nOOB, I know it . what does (i)everything stand for:


itunes
imac
ibook
ilife
ipod
iphoto
idvd


The whole world is "i" ahhhhh..

Honestly what does it stand for (my best guess is "internet").
 
The fact that the "i" has evolved from "internet" to any consumer-oriented product from Apple again demonstrates the power Apple has in innovating, foreseeing and creating the future. Other non-apple products have also tried to cash in on the "iProduct" idea. So, I think the "i" is starting to evolve into meaning a tech-savvy, life-simplifying product.
 
Originally posted by montecristo
The fact that the "i" has evolved from "internet" to any consumer-oriented product from Apple again demonstrates the power Apple has in innovating, foreseeing and creating the future. Other non-apple products have also tried to cash in on the "iProduct" idea. So, I think the "i" is starting to evolve into meaning a tech-savvy, life-simplifying product.
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I think it demonstrates that the internet is not the be all and end all of computers. Thats why internet appliances and things like webTV fail. The internet is great and all, but sometimes the computer just needs to do more, which apple seems fully congnizant of.
 
Originally posted by strider42
I think it demonstrates that the internet is not the be all and end all of computers. Thats why internet appliances and things like webTV fail. The internet is great and all, but sometimes the computer just needs to do more, which apple seems fully congnizant of.
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That's true but I also think that the more broadband access becomes the norm the more devices will be successful that rely on it. I also think Apple recognizes this and that it's just a little too soon to be pushing internet only devices as of yet.
 
Couldn't it be simply 'i' as in me (and you) :D its my tunes, my photos, my pod!?

can't wait to see these in production:

istrain
ilash
iball
i-of-the-tiger :)
 
iRemeber;) that when I got my original iMac DV the first startup movie mentioned a lot about how easy it was to get on the internet and it came with all these assistants to get on the internet. It was pretty cool and worked well, unlike Xp's wizrds.

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nOOB
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n00b (zeroes)
 
Originally posted by SiliconAddict
I'm actually somewhat suprised that X hasn't taken off. xTunes xPod xSync and.....OS X
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It's already been tried: Windows XP....That didn't work so well. What's an "xP?" An "ex-Pee". What is that?
 
I just assumed it was XP because Microsoft always enjoys copying Apple so they took X from OS X and added a P just so it wouldn't be too obvious. It just seems odd that for so long it has been Win 95, 98, 2000, ME, 2003...then once they saw the success of OS X coming out, suddenly Windows has "X" in their Windows, too.
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
I just assumed it was XP because Microsoft always enjoys copying Apple so they took X from OS X and added a P just so it wouldn't be too obvious
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Hahahahahahaha. I like that, obvious, but not too obvious.

--Waluigi
 
Re: what does the "i" stand for?

Originally posted by nazariteguitar
OK, call me a Mac nOOB, I know it . what does (i)everything stand for:


itunes
imac
ibook
ilife
ipod
iphoto
idvd


The whole world is "i" ahhhhh..

Honestly what does it stand for (my best guess is "internet").
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i think with the imac and ibook, it was for the "internet", but now, it's just a letter and it still "sounds cool"...hopefully
 
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the i means:

incrediblycoolandgreaterthananythingelseyoucanbuyfortheprice
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Well it could but Apple did explain what it meant when the iMac came out as I posted above.
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Well.. the i in iPhoto doesn't mean Internet, nor does the i in iPod, nor the i in iDVD. With the original iMac, it meant Internet, now I think it does just mean "I", as in "me".
 
i vs. XP

Originally the 'i' in iMac meant internet, but I've come to believe that the 'i' stands for individual, insight, intuition, all those good 'i' words.
XP, as I understand, stand for eXtreme Programming, just as ME stood for Millenium Edition. Of course, that means MS doesn't get whole acronym thing real well, but I disgress.
 
always thought XP was for eXPeriance, the Windows Experiance, more like eXtreme Pain in the A$$
 
Just don't make it angry

I've used XP and I've found it fine:

as long as the computer's unplugged

rimshot


Seriously, XP is best of the litter with regards to Windows, and it does do some things rather well so long as you don't use Explorer, Outlook, change any drives or devices and generally baby it. And you don't mind MS looking at the kind of program you use, nor the worms virii...


wait, XP sucks. Nevermind. Go back to the beginning please.
 
Originally posted by whooley
Well.. the i in iPhoto doesn't mean Internet, nor does the i in iPod, nor the i in iDVD. With the original iMac, it meant Internet, now I think it does just mean "I", as in "me".
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That's true but it doesn't necessarily have to mean anything. How many names of products out there have any meaning to the product? I would have to guess 99.9% of them. In any case if I had to chose a name meaning besides internet I would use it in the context of a incomplete sentence with the name of the product being a verb and the I meaning the user. So iMac would mean that the user uses a Mac and so on.
 
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