What does Pod mean in iPod? I understand iMac is for Mac, iBook is for book(notebook), iTunes... tunes, etc...but not iPod.
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iPod "pod".... i dont get it
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zap2 said:
Oh, OK. I was gonna guess something like it stood for Personal something Device. I couldnt figure out something for "O".
It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.
Chaszmyr said:Oh man, that sounds nice
the best part of it is that it exists and i want one badly.
Hector said:i have one many times bigger with a pc a g4 cube and my ibook, it's called my room.
Yeah, but if your room has windows in it, you're cheating.
mkrishnan said:It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.
Sounds like an easy life.
stridey said:Yeah, but if your room has windows in it, you're cheating.
I blame winxponmac.com...
now that is just plain scarymkrishnan said:It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.
OMG nobody even checked Dictionary??? Shame...
"a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function"
This one is less accurate though:
an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea [or apple], splitting open on both sides when ripe. <???(maybe that's a hint for future iPods....)
"a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function"
This one is less accurate though:
an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea [or apple], splitting open on both sides when ripe. <???(maybe that's a hint for future iPods....)
ipod is a self-contained enclosure that plays music, etc. think of it like as in agriculture. peas grow in pods. one pod contains multiple peas. now imagine your music, videos, pictures, etc. are all peas. and you can keep them all together in a single 'pod'. hence, ipod. as far as the 'i' is concerned, i attribute that to just being apple's moniker.
Pod: a structure in which the contents grow, mature, evolve into something new, and usually greater, than whence it came
Seems appropriate enough
Seems appropriate enough