[wil421]

Didn’t IBM and others use it before Apple? IBM iSeries came out before the iMac. I think a few companies were using small e and i at the time for the “cool” factor. Intel jumped on the bandwagon after the iMac, IIRC.

[akovaski]

IBM rebranded AS/400 to iSeries in 2000, which is after the iMac came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_eServer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac

[dec0dedab0de]

Cisco had an ios and iphone before apple. though Im not sure the cisco iphone was actually ever released

[wafflemaker]

But AFAIK, Cisco IOS is all caps, not the cool lowercase i and big second letter.