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what does the "i" stand for?

heres a thought the i Stands for internet and also:

interactive
intresting
indviual
informative
inner peace
i think therefore i am
intelegent
interlocking (dont ask just thought)

well theres some ideas for you i know that it was internet but these are what it can stand for now in so many many many wonderfull ways oh joy to the osx

XP suppose to be exsperance and it is its how to learn how to use drivers install more drivers make sure that your virus defentions are uptodate which are a waist of time and also how to setup a home network with a mac or linux box yayy but shouldnt it be ex instead of xp god knows..

why dose religion and windows always seem to mix or should i say Microsoft is bill religious
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
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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Yup, that's what I meant too.. Even though "iSight" doesn't really make sense, but then when have Apple been grammatically correct?!?! ("Think Differently"?)

At least these are better than the '90s fashion of changing the "er" at the end of names to "a" (as in Performa). For some reason, that really used to annoy me!

Mike.
 
A.
I've got my money on: Integrated as the new interpretation. Everything integrated as one, workflow and ease of use increase.

B.
or as an alternative in Steve Jobs talk:
insanelyGreatMovie
insanelyGreatDVD
insanelyGreatPhoto
insanelyGreatTunes
insanelyGreatCal
insanelyGreatChat
insanelyGreatSync
:) really joking on this option.
 
Originally posted by whooleytoo
Yup, that's what I meant too.. Even though "iSight" doesn't really make sense, but then when have Apple been grammatically correct?!?! ("Think Differently"?)

At least these are better than the '90s fashion of changing the "er" at the end of names to "a" (as in Performa). For some reason, that really used to annoy me!

Mike.
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hehe, and the use of the word Correctness in the Java 1.4.1 Update 1 :)
 
Originally posted by whooleytoo
Yup, that's what I meant too.. Even though "iSight" doesn't really make sense, but then when have Apple been grammatically correct?!?! ("Think Differently"?)

At least these are better than the '90s fashion of changing the "er" at the end of names to "a" (as in Performa). For some reason, that really used to annoy me!

Mike.
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Actually I Sight does make since. To sight something or to see something. Also Think Different was grammatically correct. I'm not an English professor but I there are those on these boards that can explain why it is correct.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Actually I Sight does make since. To sight something or to see something.
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Actually, you're right, it does make sense. Although "iSee" might be more catchy and immediate, iSight is the better name because of the obvious pun.

Also Think Different was grammatically correct. I'm not an English professor but I there are those on these boards that can explain why it is correct.
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I think you think wrong! ;-)

Mike.
 
Originally posted by whooley
Actually, you're right, it does make sense. Although "iSee" might be more catchy and immediate, iSight is the better name because of the obvious pun.



I think you think wrong! ;-)

Mike.
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This is not the best explanation I have heard on these boards but here is one.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=274953&#post274953

I have heard it explained by English Profs and it is indeed composed correctly. You just have to interepret it in a different way then you would normally.
 
Originally posted by TEG
XP, in Greek Chi Ro. Cairo is Greek for Jesus, there fore M$ thinks Windows XP is Jesus!!

Long live the i = my (or mine)

TEG
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now that's the kind of wit we need to see more of around here! bravo!
 
the original imac had an "i" standing for "internet", if i'm not mistaken, and since it was such a hit, apple decided to go with it.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
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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hmmm... how should I explain to my wife that I was Podding until midmight?
Not now, I'm Booking.
I will be Sighting and Maccing for a while, so hold my calls.

:) Couldn't resist. Was too funny, to me anyway.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
This is not the best explanation I have heard on these boards but here is one.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=274953&#post274953

I have heard it explained by English Profs and it is indeed composed correctly. You just have to interepret it in a different way then you would normally.
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I know I'm getting a bit anal about this (but at least there's two of us! ;-) ... but his explanation is still wrong, if you read it that way the correct version would be: Think OF Different.

Mike.
 
Originally posted by whooleytoo
I know I'm getting a bit anal about this (but at least there's two of us! ;-) ... but his explanation is still wrong, if you read it that way the correct version would be: Think OF Different.

Mike.
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I agree, if you diagram the sentence think is the verb and different(ly) is the adverb modifying think. (The noun is implied). There is no other way to "interpret" it.
 
I've heard a million times that the "i" stood for "internet". Maybe now it stands for "integration". All the iLife parts are supposed to integrate, along with the iBooks & iPods and such.

Just a thought....
 
Originally posted by dcb
I agree, if you diagram the sentence think is the verb and different(ly) is the adverb modifying think. (The noun is implied). There is no other way to "interpret" it.
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actually, there is another way to interpret it. what if i'm describing a ball to someone, but they are blind and have never seen a ball. in this description i might say, "think round". or if i'm describing the color red to that person, i might say, "think hot". now, put that to "think different". first, think. about what, you may ask? well, different!

what if the slogan were Think "Different" with the quotes included. would that change your interpretation of it? just food for thought.....
 
Re: i vs. XP

Originally posted by hulugu
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.
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we (meaning me and my machead buddies) always say "Xtremely Pathetic", and that Win2000 is based on Neandrathal Technology. but we only do that because we're geeks!
 
Originally posted by Thom_Edwards
actually, there is another way to interpret it. what if i'm describing a ball to someone, but they are blind and have never seen a ball. in this description i might say, "think round". or if i'm describing the color red to that person, i might say, "think hot". now, put that to "think different". first, think. about what, you may ask? well, different!
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Personally, I think Apple went for the double meaning, i.e. Think Different(ly), and Think (of) 'Different'. But the grammar is wrong for both! Hehe. Still, if there's room in the English language for a word like "winningest", then there's room for anything!!

And just to keep the thread light, I'm noticing more and more colloquial expressions that get the point across just so effectively, my favorites:

Fuzzify: To make fuzzy (from computing, but it sounds so cute!)
Automagically:Needs no explanation!

Mike.l
 
Originally posted by Thom_Edwards
actually, there is another way to interpret it. what if i'm describing a ball to someone, but they are blind and have never seen a ball. in this description i might say, "think round". or if i'm describing the color red to that person, i might say, "think hot". now, put that to "think different". first, think. about what, you may ask? well, different!

what if the slogan were Think "Different" with the quotes included. would that change your interpretation of it? just food for thought.....
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Those are good examples and made me rethink this whole question! I think I may be wrong (I really hate admitting that) I am now thinking that you don't need the (ly) for different to be an adverb. Like the geek that I am, I actually submitted a question to a grammer site, so I guess we will all know sooner or later. Oh how pathetic I feel.

At any rate, it's just a slogan (damn good one) and I think we should probably look at it like the "i" preface that this thread was intended to discuss. Personally, I think the "i", no matter its root meaning has more to do with branding than anything. When we see anything with the "i" in it, we instantly think of Apple, right?
 
Originally posted by whooleytoo
Yup, that's what I meant too.. Even though "iSight" doesn't really make sense, but then when have Apple been grammatically correct?!?! ("Think Differently"?)
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"Think Different" is all about nonconformism. It's very conformist to obey inefficient grammatical standards. "Think Different" is self-demonstrative: it not only tells you to reconsider convention, it reconsiders grammatical convention itself.
 
Originally posted by whooleytoo
That's grammatically correct, but that's a different sentence!

I think we may just have to agree to disagree! ;)

Mike.
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Well here's what I'm getting at. Be and Think are both verbs so what's the difference? Just because it sounds odd?

Hey no need to back away. I'm not arguing here just a friendly discussion. I'm having fun and I'm not stressing about it. Though if I feel like I'm losing the discussion at any time watch out I'll just have to grab some of the big guns on this site that know at little more about this particular subject then I let on to.:p
 
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