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iBook (though Apple rebranded their notebook line as 'MacBook' after switching to Intel processors in 2006).

Now split into two distinct but closely related operating systems, with iPhones running iOS and iPads running iPadOS. Chances are, if you have marketed and sold a product with this type of idea, you got the idea from Apple. See also iPhony for direct parodies of Apple products. In Speculative Fiction, this can be a sign that Everything Is an iPod in the Future. See also Super Title 64 Advance for videogames, and Xtreme Kool Letterz for other letters that make things cool. As in: 'This phone is mine, bitch, back off!' or 'Look at me! This is what I'm like!'.

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The 'individual' meaning has since spread to items and software where the 'Internet' definition makes no sense, so more recently people seem to figure it's used like the pronoun.

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It was later codified by the iPod, the most popular portable media player.

It also stood for 'individual', as opposed to the Power Macintosh line of professional machines. It was parodied to death by comedians like Harry Enfield and eventually became discredited for a few years before it began being used as a common prefix. It started with cars, such as the Golf GTi, where it notionally stood for fuel injection but did spread to non-automative products as a supposed sign of being technologically advanced. So why 'i'? Well, it likely began with the iMac, where it stood for 'internet,' because the iMac had a built-in modem and was designed mainly for web browsing note In Europe at least the fad for i began in the eighties where it was commonly used as a suffix. Companies everywhere are cashing in on the iFad. People often have the misconception that only Apple does this with its line of electronic products, but nope - they weren't the first ones to flex their 'i's, and they're not the latest. The letter 'i' can prefix anything and make it sound cool. Ancient history now.We've moved a vowel over. They stood for 'atomic' and 'electronic' respectively, so it could damn well apply to any new gadget at the time. Remember how we'd attach the letters A and E to almost everything? Good times.

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