How did the iPod get its name?

The site wired.com published a very long article on the history of the iPod. If someone masters to read 3 pages of a foreign text, go for it . At the end, it tells how the iPod got its name. This will be discussed under the cut.

I apologize in advance for a somewhat free translation.

A crucial role in the history played freelance copywriter Vinnie Chieco. He worked in a team whose task was to present the new player to the public. Jobs has already come up with the slogan: “1000 songs in your pocket” (1000 songs in your pocket), so that the name of the product could not be associated with music or songs.
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When Jobs talked about the player, he constantly referred to the computer as a port, a connection center for various gadgets. Chieco thought of the spacecraft as a living example of such a port. The spacecraft can be left in a small capsule (English pod), but it is not self-sufficient, therefore, from time to time the capsule should be returned to the ship to update the fuel and provisions. When Chieco saw the prototype of the first iPod, he immediately thought about the Odyssey film: 2001 and the words of the captain: “Open the pod bay door, Hal!” (“Open the capsule door, Hal!”). It only remained to add the letter i to the name, as in iMac.

Curiously, the word iPod has already been in the Apple archive since 2000. True, it was reserved for a certain public Internet repository of computer hardware (public internet kiosk enclosure containing computer equipment). The strange thing is that no one knew about this, not even Steve. Maybe they just forgot ...

After some thought, Apple employees realized that the name of the new player, iPod, is a great idea. Simple, cute ... In addition, it does not describe the device, so even if the player evolves (remember that it was 2001, when no one even thought about the iPod Touch), the name will be assigned to it.

As for the letter i, it was suggested to interpret it as an abbreviation of the word Internet (as it was with iMac) or simply as a personal pronoun “I” (eng. I).

October 23, 2001 Steve Jobs introduced the first iPod to the masses. It seems that it was so long ago ...