I've always been somewhat curious as to why Apple has this irritating habit of placing an "i" in front of the name of so many products.
I realize that Steve Jobs was at the helm when all of this "i" stuff was being named. I just wonder how far he would take it… for instance, when someone would say "Steve, hey, where did you go?" I wonder if he ever said that he had to go have/take an iBM?
All right, now before you get all bent out of shape about this, I'm fairly certain that Steve Jobs would have laughed at that joke. I'm just saying…
Supposedly the "i" in front is a psychological tactic to promote possession and ownership amongst their mostly younger minded consumer oriented customers who typically lack sufficient computer knowledge and/or mental maturity.
"i" meaning "I" "Myself" "Me" "My" "buy" > Mac
iMac, iPod, iPhone, iBook, iPad, iWork, iBook, thus means....
MyMac, MyPad, MyPod, MyPhone, MyWork, MyBook and so forth.
Apple refrained from using it on their "Pro" product lines, favoring a more serious tone to appeal to professionals and more mature minded users.
MacBook Pro, MacPro, XRAID* , XServer*, LogicPro, Final Cut Pro etc.,
Odd ball names are the MacMini (meaning a "small Mac"), MacAir (meaning it's lightweight), MacBook* (meaning it's small as book), Airport Express and Extreme. (routers)
Admittedly "i" prefix does seem rather insulting to one's intelligence, likely why the only things I've purchased with "i" in them was iPods, only because it served a good function at the time and made nice gifts, but now no longer have anything else from Apple but a MacBook Pro running several operating systems to convey my computer seriousness (and success/confidence) to others when repairing their machines.
*discontinued items
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Has it always been like this, or has a recent change been made? I ask because I don't recall having observed this before (which doesn't really mean much). And, regardless of whether this is a recent change or it has always been like this, I find it very confusing. Perhaps marking a message as edited should be automatic, and not voluntary as it is today?
I am thinking, for example, of the automatic addition at the end of a message of a note saying "Last edited by (name of the author or host/moderator) on (date and time)". The reason for the edit would be added only if voluntarily added by the person who did it. As I will do voluntarily at the end of this message immediately after posting it.
I think that if, at the same time, editing a message doesn't make it automatically become the last one, everything would be quite a lot more clear and logical.
Message was edited by: Claudio González on October 10 2009, 8:18 am. Reason: offering an example of my proposition.jochemd wrote:
The checkbox is already there, it would seem it should be a simple thing to default it to being checked instead of not checked.
And how is that going to provide the requested timestamps? How is that
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I'm not a software developer, so that's not for me to work out. The system is already in place to allow for the requested comment to be placed at the end of the message, that's all I was commenting about. By default the checkbox could be ENABLED and not be given the choice to disable it.
I am not sure if others are specifically looking for the timestamp, but clearly the system already has it in place, if it is taking a reader to the last *edited* message. Since it's already there, displaying it shouldn't be such a tough thing for a software development company to do.
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Beginning a thread does not equate to how many replies end up in the thread, so saying that an OP started a 70 message thread is not relevant. Asking questions about timestamps and why the messages appear to have *wrong* timestamps, even when you are the originator of the message is quite different from asking about how the forum software is taking you to specific messages in a thread.
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