What Is The Meaning Of "i" in iPhone Name, iPad and other Apple products?

Ever wonder why there is an "i" in iPhone?

What does i stand for in iPhone iPad and other apple products?

Short answer:

“i” stands for “internet” in Apple products.

Long answer:

iMac comes from the marriage of the excitement of the Internet with the simplicity of Macintosh. Even though this is a full-blooded Macintosh, we are targeting this for the #1 use that consumers tell us they want a computer for, which is to get on the Internet -- simply, and fast. And that is what this product is targeted for.

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"i" also means some other things to us. Internet. Individual. Instruct. Inform. Inspire. Steve Jobs may have originally used those words to describe the iMac, but they sure do apply quite nicely to the iPhone, don't they?

Apple, renowned for its attention to details, has always impressed its customers not just with easy to use products but also easy to remember names. It would be interesting to find that even the most trivial aspects of product design & marketing are given great attention and are based on logic.

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So there you have it, a short history of the letter i. If you want to return to those halcyon days of youth when Apple first announced the "i," you can still watch a YouTube clip of Steve Jobs introducing the first iMac. This was soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple, and he had not yet started exclusively wearing his now trademark black turtleneck and jeans for his announcements. But it was still vintage Steve Jobs, full of quips such as this one: the back of the iMac looks better than the front of everyone else's computers. Here is the clip, which runs seven minutes: