Although Apple, its branded technology products and smartphones are among the most popular devices on the market and are used by millions of people around the world, it has always been a matter of curiosity what the letter 'i' at the beginning of products such as iPhone, iPad and iWatch produced by the company means.
However, it turned out that the answer to this question was given by the late Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, at a conference in 1998, and it was explained that the letter 'i' represents not one, but five words.
FIVE CONCEPT
The most popular guess so far has been that the letter 'i' stands for the Internet. 'i' also stands for 'I', the first person singular pronoun in Turkish. Not unreasonable given the emphasis on personalization in products.
The American Readers Digest magazine, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, cited cybersecurity and privacy expert Paul Bischoff, who suggested that the letter 'i' in Apple products encompasses the following 5 concepts:
Jobs said this at a conference in 1998. According to Bischoff, although these words were an important part of the presentation, Jobs also said that the 'i' had "no official meaning" and emphasized that it could mean the first-person singular pronoun 'I'.