What's the meaning of "i" in iPhone, iPad?
[This post is from 2011, but it's still valid!] Recently I've been thinking about the "I" meaning in all of Apple's products: iPod, iPad, iPhone… what's the "i" for? Internet? Nowadays the world wide web isn't such a new or a cool thing anymore, right? The Internet is a given. Is it "i" like "me"? I looked for an answer and found it in an interesting article that included the following: "It was early 1997 and Steven P. Jobs had just recently returned to Apple as Interim Chief Executive Officer (At first he was just there to help and publicly stated that he did not want the full-time job at the time). Apple was about 6 months from full insolvency and company morale was at an all time low. There were warring factions and fiefdoms pitting any number of internal groups against each other, with each assigning blame for Apple’s slow demise. Steve Jobs spent his first few months cutting irrelevant products. He felt that the...