The Magic i

Coldicote | 11:01 Fri 15th Jan 2010 | ChatterBank

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Does anyone know the meaning and origin of the lower case i as in iPOD? I see that iGCSE exams are now in the news. Maybe we'll have an iVoting system for the next election!!

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squarebear

From wikipedia:

Apple declared the "i" in iMac to stand for "Internet". Attention was given to the out-of-box experience: the user needed to go through only two steps to set up and connect to the Internet. "There's no step 3!" was the catch-phrase in a popular iMac commercial narrated by actor Jeff Goldblum. Another commercial, dubbed "Simplicity Shootout", pitted seven-year-old Johann Thomas and his border collie Brodie, with an iMac, against Adam Taggart, a Stanford University MBA student, with a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 8250, in a race to set up their computers. Johann and Brodie finished in 8 minutes and 15 seconds, whereas Adam was still working on it by the end of the commercial.

Apple later adopted the "i" prefix across its consumer hardware and software lines, such as the iPod, iBook, iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, iWeb), iWork, iSight, and iSync. The prefix has caught on for non-Apple Computer products as well

ChuckFickens

the I in iPod is just an Apple thing, they like to brand a lot of their stuff like that (ipod, Imac, iTunes etc)

iGCSE is different, it stands for international general certificate of secondary education.

ChuckFickens

I'm renaming all my household appliances before apple do it.

I have an iKettle, iToaster and an iToilet so far.

squarebear

Then you could watch ITV on your iTV