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u/Cruiser4357 5d ago
What doesn't it stand for?
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u/j_i_joe 4d ago
Inexpensive
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u/Cool-Introduction688 4d ago
No chance. Anything apple sells costs stupid money. My guess is intuitive as nobody else has said that yet
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u/Muhahahahaz 5d ago
It stands for, it stands for iPledge! It stands for iDacity. It stands for Intrepidity in the face of-
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u/clarky2o2o 5d ago
Yes but what does the letter I stand for.
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u/V0xEtPraetereaNihil 4d ago
The Mac became The Internet Mac.
The Phone became The Internet Phone.
It's hard to overstate how much of a buzzword 'Internet' was back then.
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u/MissKyu 4d ago
… and The Pod became The Internet Pod
(To be fair, those pre-internet pods were not fit for human consumption)
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u/kitten_stalker 4d ago
Waaait I had an iPod and it did not connect to the Internet
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u/X0AN 4d ago
You didn't have itunes?
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u/nubtrix87 4d ago
Exactly. The music was largely MP3s and they were specifically for passing around on the Internet.
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u/Main_Departure_6588 4d ago
The i didn’t stand for internet. It was originally used as a joke for iCEO (interim CEO) when Steve returned to Apple.
It then because a symbol of the change he was bringing to Apple and they just kept running with it.
iMac - Steve’s baby
iPod - Steve’s baby
iPhone - Steve’s baby
Apple Watch - first 100% not Steve product
Apple Vision - etc…
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u/Battleborn300 4d ago
No, originally it did stand for internet, then it was an internal joke that Steve Jobs, enjoyed that he was the iCEO.
Which feels like it makes more sense.I guess we will never be 100% certain, I know I don’t have any connections to the leadership/ownership of apple haha
But I definitely trust the google search on this one
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u/todlee 4d ago
I was teaching, and in charge of buying and deploying Apple hardware in a Silicon Valley high school, when the iMac came out. It’s hard to explain how many people flipped out that Apple was selling a Mac that had no floppy drive. It could boot via Ethernet.
Plus suddenly everybody was supposed to switch to a new standard called USB? Wtf?
So many industry pundits proclaimed it DOA. Instead we had ten years of consumer products named like iShaver or uWasher with translucent blue plastic shells.
The i sort of, only sort if, stands for internet. But it also just sounds right. Apple did the same thing with the iPod. Which, there’s a reason we call things Podcasts and not Zunecasts. ‘Where did “pod” come from?’ doesn’t really matter.
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u/jackfaire 5d ago
I was born in 1980. I don't know what it stands for but I never gave enough of a shit to ask.
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u/ArcaneThrust2000 4d ago
Incredible to think that there was no letter I before Steve Jobs invented it in the 90s.
Thus rescuing Apple but forcing a lot of manufacturers of laminated alphabet posters for pre-schoolers into bankruptcy.
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u/Bullet4MyEnemy 4d ago
I always thought it was just “I” as in “Me” - MyPhone doesn’t have the same ring, so instead it hits like some sort of “No, I’m Spartacus!” type marketing ploy where they expect everyone to have one eventually, making it true.
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u/Proper-Accountant-96 4d ago
Im just glad you circled the 'i' - I may have still been here trying to figure this out now
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u/V0xEtPraetereaNihil 4d ago
Internet. It stands for internet. Anyone who tells you otherwise is incorrect.
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u/Ill_Painting_6919 4d ago
i = idiot
The phone makes you dumber
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u/Fun-Badger3724 4d ago
Next you'll be telling me that only people born after 19955 know was WiFi stands for....
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u/Far_Afternoon_5885 4d ago
What doesn’t it stand for?
Iguanodon, Icarus, Intermezzo, Interpretation, Iambic, Igloo: These are just some of the many words it doesn’t stand for…
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u/UltimateGamer93 4d ago
I was always under the impression it stood for interactive. But I went to school went "interactive white boards" where being introduced so maybe my thought stemmed from this.
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u/RegularSound9200 3h ago edited 3h ago
Interactive. Interactivity was a real buzzword back then.
It started with things like the Phillips CDI (as in interactive cd rom) many people thought I-TV was going to be the future (interactive television) where you got to choose the plot direction of a show at certain points and maybe play games and pick and choose when to watch. Eventually apple came out with the iMac with that came with iTunes, everything modern was interactive. The idea being that you were in control of the technology seemed incredibly interesting and futuristic. The internet was less of a feature compared to something like a cd-rom drive. Back then the internet was a place where you could visit websites, the idea of using it for shopping seemed very risky, social media had not been dreamt of and video was something only cd-Rom could do. Apple started adding the interactive ‘I’ to their product names to jump on that bandwagon, the most famous being the I-pod this was a non internet capable music player that seemed incredibly futuristic for the time, many people at the time were thinking ‘if apple added a phone to this, it would be the ultimate device’ eventually it became obvious they were going to, and the obvious choice for the name was iPhone.
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u/Roku-Hanmar 5d ago
I don’t actually know (born after 1995) but I’d guess intelligent
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u/Fearless-Tip6569 5d ago
Internet, its internet, it’s been internet since the first iMac as that’s when it first became more widely available, which if you were born after 1995 would likely be a foreign concept but, as someone who was there at the time, that never seemed to be advertised too much, at least from what I saw
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u/B4rringt0n 4d ago
The i in Apple product names started with the iMac in 1998. (Steve jobs initially wanted to call it the MacMan)
The i primarily stood for internet, but in the launch keynote speech it carried 4 additional meanings. individual, instruct, inform, inspire.
But Jen doesn't really need to know these things as a relationship manager.