what does the "i" stand for?

[lem0nayde]

I'd say the "i" stands for innovation - the one thing Apple does that almost noone else in the industry is doing.

Actually, I remember when one of the i products was released, during the Stevenote he mentioned a bunch of different words starting with i that the product represented "innovation, imagination ...and so on." That was the point at which the i stopped standing for internet and just became a corporate branding moniker (as if it wasn't always).

After all people - what the hell does the Apple in Apple Computer stand for? As far as I know - my computer has no parts made from fruit.



Joe

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by lem0nayde
I'd say the "i" stands for innovation - the one thing Apple does that almost noone else in the industry is doing.

Actually, I remember when one of the i products was released, during the Stevenote he mentioned a bunch of different words starting with i that the product represented "innovation, imagination ...and so on." That was the point at which the i stopped standing for internet and just became a corporate branding moniker (as if it wasn't always).

After all people - what the hell does the Apple in Apple Computer stand for? As far as I know - my computer has no parts made from fruit.



Joe

The Apple stands for a new way of thinking as in Newton and the falling Apple. Here's the original logo.

 

[5300cs]

Originally posted by lem0nayde ...After all people - what the hell does the Apple in Apple Computer stand for? As far as I know - my computer has no parts made from fruit.



Joe

Steve Jobs is/was a strong follower of Zen Buddhism, and he used to meditate and work in a local Apple orchard, hence the name Apple Computer (see the above attached original Apple Computer logo.) Zen Buddhism requires silence when meditating, thus the original Apple machines had no noisy fan.

 

[Phil Of Mac]

Indeed. The original Macintosh had no fan, which meant that it had no hard drive. Steve's utter refusal to, among other things, put a hard drive in a Mac led to his 1985 departure from Apple, at which point Apple promptly made a Macintosh model with a fan.

 

[davidc2182]

i?

it stands for either intelligence or internet depending on the product, intelligent tunes or internet mac, intelligent pod, etc.

 

[johnnowak]

Originally posted by ump3
Couldn't it be simply 'i' as in me (and you) its my tunes, my photos, my pod!?

can't wait to see these in production:

istrain
ilash
iball
i-of-the-tiger

macally already makes an iball..

 

[dcb]

An english professors take on Think Different

This is a response from Professor Charles Darling about Think Different:

"The Shorter OED does allow for the use of "different" as an adverb, but refers to it as "dialectal," meaning it's not entirely within the good graces of Standard English (as in "She thinks she knows different.") I do wonder what those Macintosh people had in mind, if anything . . . ."

That's good enough for me.

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by dcb
An english professors take on Think Different

This is a response from Professor Charles Darling about Think Different:

"The Shorter OED does allow for the use of "different" as an adverb, but refers to it as "dialectal," meaning it's not entirely within the good graces of Standard English (as in "She thinks she knows different.") I do wonder what those Macintosh people had in mind, if anything . . . ."

That's good enough for me.

That's basically how the english prof put it to me. With my inferior english education I was unable to remember it or to repeat it to anyone here in anyway. It's good to have some confirmation that the guy wasn't blowing smoke out is butt.

 

[MacMaelstrom]

My two cents on the Think Different.

Think Different is different.
Think Differently is customary.
Don't you see? Why would Apple think customary in an ad campaign about thinking different?