Rahul Mehta Gandhinagar LsCandidate
Letter i on iPhone comes from word India.
Steve jobs had come to Bharat ( which he referred mistakenly as India ) to meet Neem Karoli baba. But Steve Jobs came in 1974 , while Babaji had passed away a few months ago in year 1973. Steve jobs spent several weeks in the ashram
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Steve Jobs writes - The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead ....
He later said more "intuition is more powerful than intellect , and that this had a significant impact on my work".
Purely based on intuition , in 1995 , he decided to make hand held devices touch based and not keyboard based. The first device was apple newton , which he named so to honor newton. Later , when when made first new line of products, he decided to prefix with letter "i" for India, where he , as per him , he decided to go by intuition.