Fun Question --- What does the "Pod" in iPod stand for?

I was talking to some friends this weekend, and we got onto the subject of the name "iPod". The "i" seems to stand for "internet", but what about "Pod"? I can't seem to find the definitive answer to this question anywhere.
Does anyone KNOW the real answer?
Thanks!
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I'll be showing my age if I admit to this, but I think the term "pod" comes from the old sci-fi movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956). In the film, Kevin McCarthy plays a doctor in a small California town. He comes back from a two week conference to find something is wrong: It turns out the townspeoples' bodies have been taken over by their exact duplicates who grow out of giant pods (distributed all over the Earth by space aliens, of course). If I'm not mistaken, this was remade in 1978 with Donald Sutherland (Keifer's dad!) and Leonard Nimoy.

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