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User profile for user: technowiz12345 
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i have heard different theories as to what the name "iPod" stands for.
internet
Portable
open
database
intellegent podcasting system
are either of these correct? please help.
any iPod
Posted on Apr 20, 2012 10:21 AM
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Posted on Apr 20, 2012 10:31 AM
Googling shows that really nobody know except Apple and they have't said.
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User profile for user: lllaass 
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Apr 20, 2012 10:31 AM in response to technowiz12345
Googling shows that really nobody know except Apple and they have't said.
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User profile for user: roaminggnome
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Apr 20, 2012 10:36 AM in response to technowiz12345
No.
It does not stand for anything.
i is just the designation that Apple began using with the ipod, imac,ibook, itunes, etc.
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The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who (with others) was called by Apple to figure out how to introduce the new player to the public. After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the phrase "Open the pod bay door, Hal!", which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. Chieco saw an analogy to the relationship between the spaceship and the smaller independent pods in the relationship between a personal computer and the music player."
^ a b c d e f Kahney, Leander.Straight Dope on the iPod's Birth,Wired News, October 17, 2006. Retrieved on October 30, 2006.
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User profile for user: Michael Black 
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Apr 20, 2012 10:39 AM in response to technowiz12345
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod
Scroll down to the section "Trademark". I remember the bit about they had to get the trademark rights after they came up with the name, since it was already a registered trademark.
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technowiz12345 Author
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does "iPod" stand for something?
