How Apple has steadily been dropping the ‘i’ from its devices for over a decade

How Apple has steadily been dropping the ‘i’ from its devices for over a decade

From the first iMac in the 1990s to today, the prefix “i” has symbolized Apple — but Apple has been working to get rid of it since the original iPad in 2010.

Steve Jobs launching the iPad in 2010 — the last Apple device to be named with an “i”

There is still of course the iPhone and the iPad — but there’s no iWatch or iTV, and certainly no iVision Pro. Across hardware, software, and services, Apple named around 30 products with an i following the success of the iMac in 1998.

It’s just a letter, but it’s so strongly associated with Apple that to this day there are people who call the Apple Watch an iWatch.

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