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{{quote|"And ''I'' wanted to name the store iMario, because anything with a lowercase I has got to be technologically advanced."|'''[[Mario]]''' in a<ref>
Remember how we'd attach the letter E to everything? Good times. It stood for "electronic", so it could damn well apply to any new gadget at the time. Ancient history now...We've moved a vowel over.
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See also [[Super Title 64 Advance]] for videogames, and [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]] for other letters that make things cool. In [[Speculative Fiction]], this can be a sign that [[Everything Is an iPod In The Future]].
== iExamples
* As mentioned before, Apple. Chances are, if you have marketed and sold a product with this type of idea, you got the idea from Apple.
** ''Some'' of their products include:
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* iRobot (the makers of the Roomba) chose their name back in the mid 90s, long before this trope really got going. The name is of course a pun on the [[Isaac Asimov]] book ''[[I, Robot]]''.
** The movie ''[[I, Robot (film)|I Robot]]'' with Will Smith featured a lower-case 'i' in its title in the movie poster, suggesting the iMac trope. The fact that Sonny and the other robots are composed of chrome metal and semi-translucent plastics and resemble walking Apple iMacs is not coincidental.
* TrekStor makes the i.Beat line of [[MP3]] players. They caused a minor controversy when they brought out a black
** Would that have been any better if it was called the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|i.Beat Box]]?
* The video/photo-editing software company Ulead called one of its photo-cleanup programs iPhoto long before Apple started doing using this trend. In this case, the "i" did stand for the pronoun, as the message being launched was "a photo-cleaning so simple, even I can use it". When Apple started doing the iName stuff, they were dismayed to find that iPhoto was already taken, so they paid Ulead a significant amount of money to get Ulead to change the name of its product and sign over the rights to name future products.
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== iParodies
* Dickensian parody ''[[Bleak Expectations]]'' mentions an "iWax" recorder. The cylinders can barely store a whole sentence, so it's quickly abandoned.
* Parodied in ''[[FoxTrot]]'' with the iFruit.
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