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| Thread ID: 73352 | 2006-10-16 20:04:00 | About the "i" in Apple products | newb. (10067) | Press F1 |
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| 491895 | 2006-10-16 20:04:00 | Quick question: in all the Apple products, well some of them, you see the i before it, for example iPod, iMac, iTunes, etc. Does the "i" simply mean all in one? Am I correct in saying this? Sorry if this was a dumb question. |
newb. (10067) | ||
| 491896 | 2006-10-16 21:31:00 | Dear newb. Apple said that the i stands for Internet. It started with the iMac. Read the iMac Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org) |
gibler (49) | ||
| 491897 | 2006-10-16 23:13:00 | You get a similar thing in linux also a unix based os. gthis, gthat, gsomethingelse or kthis, kthat etc |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 491898 | 2006-10-16 23:31:00 | You get a similar thing in linux also a unix based os. gthis, gthat, gsomethingelse or kthis, kthat etc It strikes you sometimes how many applications follow this. I'm running KDE and right now 9 of the 10 applications in my system tray start their name with a K. The remaining one is amaroK. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 491899 | 2006-10-17 00:14:00 | The "K" or "G" in Linux application names has a meaning: the application was developed using the GNOMe or the KDE GUI, so might be expected to work "best" with that one (though usually they do work well on other GUIs). The Apple "i" might mean that hardware with that in its name works best with Apple software. :D Or it might just be meaningless marketing rubbish. Taske your pick. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 491900 | 2006-10-17 03:15:00 | Dear newb. Apple said that the i stands for Internet. It started with the iMac. Read the iMac Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org) InternetPod??? :illogical :stare: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 491901 | 2006-10-17 03:59:00 | Obviously "internet" was the meaning when the iMac came out in 1998. However, with the products following its release with the same naming system, such as iTunes, iPhoto, iWeb, iMovie, iDVD, iSync, iBook etc it indicates it is a consumer product, rather than a prosumer/professional product such as Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro or Logic Pro. However, this naming system seems to be being fazed out as the iBook has been replaced with the name MacBook and newer software doesn't seem to be sticking so strictly to the naming system. :) |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 491902 | 2006-10-17 04:09:00 | Does the "i" simply mean all in one? just out of interest, where did you get that idea from? |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 491903 | 2006-10-17 05:08:00 | Obviously "internet" was the meaning when the iMac came out in 1998. However, with the products following its release with the same naming system, such as iTunes, iPhoto, iWeb, iMovie, iDVD, iSync, iBook etc it indicates it is a consumer product, rather than a prosumer/professional product such as Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro or Logic Pro. However, this naming system seems to be being fazed out as the iBook has been replaced with the name MacBook and newer software doesn't seem to be sticking so strictly to the naming system. :) I believe they changed to that mac prefix so now one thinks the "i" stands for Intel :) Although that doesn't explain the Intel iMac .... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 491904 | 2006-10-18 23:44:00 | But MacBooks are Intel and they don't start with i. | Nermal (7077) | ||
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