The iProduct

i think it may have been to give an emotional trigger to the Mac, like it is saying "Im Mac" to the person looking at it, while at the same time triggering a possessive notion in the brain making you start to believe you already own it and now must buy it and take it home. Originally it was quite genius. Now its worn down to gimmicky.

i has definitely replaced X as far as cool factor goes, now certain factions are pushing Y… The whole thing is quite silly to me.

iriver has been around... the igoogloe bit just. seems. tired. i am not a fan. for Apple products it works obviously, but when other companies drive it into the ground, they are the followers, not the leaders.

ithink therefore i'm different.

http://thunkdifferent.com

I too am getting tired of the i-something naming. For the recent comers, I think it just smacks of me-too-ism and frankly, a total lack of imagination.

Utter crap.
It's an obvious attempt by companies to jump on the iPod bandwaggon, but it's been applied to plenty of things that have nothing to do with the iPod.
Hell, Apple didn't even invent it for the iPod. The iMac existed long before the iPod - originally I think people thought it stood for 'internet' but I don't think Apple ever said that. Even Steve Jobs' title was iCEO before the iPod. That was officially 'interim' but it tied in nicely with the iMac.
E-Commerce News should think a bit more before they come up with this rubbish, and anyone writing for an Apple website should know enough Apple history to be able to point out the lack of consistency in their argument.

I avoid all that corny iProduct crap like the plague. 99% of the time it's cheap wholesale crap repackaged by some ass trying to cash in on the whole iPod thing. A product good enough to deserve its own identity usually gets one.

I wonder what letter they're going to exploit next..... q maybe?

FWIW, iRiver Co., Ltd. predates the iPod by a couple of years.