i think Apple is affecting children's grammar

Kids are stupid. That's why they need to go to school.

wow.
deep article.
i'm being sarcastic.

i suppose you just wish to reach attention.

why is it that everyone uses Apple and every little move they make to either complain about it, beat it to the pulp or get attention. all other companies in any industry can screw up everything they do yet no one pays attention. journalists, analysts, the media etc. that join this pathetic blame game, are all irresponsible bigots.

the spelling or grammar problem in our country is due to stupidity and/or laziness and/or bad education. stop looking for scape goats. we have the poorest Western educational system and in some cases worst than in the Third World. let's ask ourselves why we ended up this way - it would even explain why our economy is so weak now. we should pay more attention on what we think, say, do.

instead of even hinting at Apple, why don't we see American Corporations have for decades, misspelled!? Toy R Us for example! bad grammar. backwards spelling etc. American ads have long misspelled words just to be cute, but i've been pissed at that for decades. it didn't help. instead of fighting a language war, is this not a democracy? then let's oust the nincompoops on the government's educational board and fire...parents are responsible too.

by the way, you the author, started the 7th paragraph with "Matter of fact,...". you mock kid's education, yet were grammatically erroneous yourself. it should be "As a matter of fact..."

i do realize my sentences start with lowercase, but that's a preference stemming out of the Bauhaus school of the 1920s, so don't worry.

ironic how we're suddenly upside-down as a nation. it's not just economically! it's culturally. education-wise. our horrific infra-structure resembles our grammar & spelling. do we think we adults spell or speak much better than our kids? what about all the food industry/restaurant ads mentioning "fishes"?! how about tv presenters - they all say "freedoms" when there is no plural! it stems from the world's most ridiculous president, Bush! how can we expect our kids to be better educated than our damn president or if corporations can't even spell! Apple?!

want to fix things on any level? look inside. yourself. each one of us. laziness is the problem. stress? what, the Chinese or Germans have no stress?! they excel, that's it. no excuse. they have will power. fatigue? it exists amongst Chinese & Germans or other people too. too much work? problems at home with kids and spouse? everyone in the world has the same problems. come on! plus, we are not at war, other nations have to deal with that noise daily and they still manage. shame on us.

ironic that we Americans send our kids to war, killing foreign lands, defining freedom and democracy as if we own the copyright to it, when we can barely spell it. our educational systems is rotten on all levels, including the moral one.

...we loved to take down Bill Clinton just because our weak law system, just like our educational system, allows for morons like Lewinsky to sue, when she probably just planned it all along. so what if Bill got a blow job in the White House, as if it's a holy shrine. Bill did a good job, in Europe they'd hail him for that, not what does not concern us. we balanced moral or education this way: it's worthier to punish someone, waste $200 Million+ on a blow job vs. spend a fraction of that to fix our educational system. come on! or how about the QE2 and other bailouts to the banking system - Billions of our hard-earned tax dollars wasted?! it was our money! our so-called democracy never asks us if we consent to the misuse of tax dollars.

this too, would help our education! it goes on many levels. but we preach, we don't really care. when in a free democracy - we should be ashamed to blame others. it's all in our hands, each one of us. some take to educating at home, through tutoring. maybe, if we kill the school system that way, they'd learn how to behave and teach properly next time. we must sacrifice somewhere if we're ever going to be ahead again in the world. we bragged for our entire history, no matter if we did help the E.U. during and after D-Day or not.

the other dilemma is our religion of competing. it's not inherently healthy. our own inter-governmental departments compete with each other. hence 911 happened. we did not share information. the same goes for our educational system. it's' chaotic. not coherent or organized.

pathetic how we blame the "i" when the the originator of the i is Apple, who instead of bringing down, we should hail, as the sole moral and sole total quality American firm, that despite profits, cares about its customers more than any, simply due to the fact that do not hype but offer quality on every level, be it hardw

The children wrote the product names correctly the second time. It’s not up to children or anyone else to follow Apple’s marketing capitalization when writing about their products.

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My brother then wrote "iPad," "iPod," and "iPhone" on the chalkboard and explained that Apple's use of the lowercase "i" was just for product branding and marketing purposes. He then had his students write another story. When they handed those in, some of his students had mentioned an iPad or iPod in their stories (Apple products featuring in their stories is something that occurs regularly), but this time the iPad or iPod was spelled "Ipad" or "Ipod.”

Sorry, but I think it's "Toys Я Us" ... ain't it? i'm just sayin' ...

iRonically, if you type or text on the iPhone or iPad, the auto-correct feature will correct "Iphone" to "iPhone". But, it will also correct "i" to "I" (capitalized when used as a stand-alone word.)

So, perhaps those young children should write their essays on "iPhones" ... or their teacher should be more strident in correcting their mistakes. In mY oPinion, that is.

Really blaming Apple for the use of a lower case i instead of a capital I is like blaming Toys R Us for kids writing their "r" backwards. Think about it.

I think the iPod pronunciation permeation into vernacular is a far more wide spread Apple cultural change then the lower case iProblem. Have you ever heard an American pronounce "iRaq" correctly. Try and not speak through your nose also.

Regards,
The rest of the English speaking world

This says more about the American education system than about Apple...

"No wonder they've started lowercasing their I's."

The lower case I in the title was obviously an intentional "mistake", but what about that erroneous apostrophe?

The real cause of lower case I among young kids and older ones too is texting! Most texting devices have awkward shift key placement. If you put the confounding variables ipod v. "i saw george watson teh day," you'll find twitter style and texting phone are far more statistically significant.