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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: How Apple has steadily been dropping the 'i' (which can't be trademarked) Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 11:05:39 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: <v2gl03$7k2v$1@dont-email.me> References: <v2ga70$311i$1@news.gegeweb.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 01:05:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a9f9f79a2a27a27f14b410b3212e9d8e"; logging-data="249951"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18CB+Gr0byhuJ5/Sq07AMswkr9lwqrPC88=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5RPIL855IWGh8tD4RQ4L2/GQbCY= Bytes: 1372 On 2024-05-20 20:01:37 +0000, Enrico Papaloma said: > > How Apple has steadily been dropping the 'i' (which can't be trademarked) The "i' was added partly for the opposite reason. "iPad", "iPhone", etc. are far easier to trademark than just "Pad" and "Phone", while still retaining a simple name that tells you what is in the tin (an "iPhone" is a phone).