At this point , a lowercaseibefore nearly any other word — phone , lodgings , pod , strain , etc.—is a giant cue that Apple is affiliate with that appliance , program , or service . And , given that the now - ubiquitous tech company usher in the practice of including cyberspace admission on just about all our personal twist , the presumptuousness that theistands forinternetis a pretty proficient one .
Butinternetisn’t the only word theirepresents . Back in 1998,Appleunveiled the iMac , a candy - colored , semitransparent personalcomputerthat boast a better user experience , high processing speeds , and access to theinternet . During the launching demonstration , Steve Jobs support that theialluded to those internet capacity — and then some .
“ We are aim this for the number - one use that consumer tell us they want a estimator for , which is to get on the cyberspace , ” he state , before give away thatialso stood for four other words : somebody , instruct , inform , andinspire .
“ We are a personal computer company , and although this product is born to electronic web , it also is a beautiful standalone product , ” he explain . “ We ’re targeting it also for education . They [ educators ] require to purchase these , and it ’s perfect for most of the thing they do in instruction . It ’s perfect for detect tremendous source[s ] of data over the internet , and we hope , as you see the product , it will urge on us all to make even better products in the future . ”
Apple did make even good products in the future , and Jobs gave users the opportunity to get at the internet on the go with the launch of the first iPhone in 2007 . But by that time , asReader ’s Digestpoints out , theihad become more of a brand identifier than an index number that the machine really had internet approach ; the first iPod , for instance , which wasreleasedin 2001 , had no web capability .
While the iPhone has proven to have an impressive amount of staying power in society , the same ca n’t be allege for iPod Socks , the Apple Time Band , and these nine other forgottenApple products .
[ h / tReader ’s Digest ]
