[Izkata]

Before the iPhone was the iPod, and before the iPod I had an iRiver mp3 player. There was certainly a trend and only Apple's product survived that one.

[bananaflag]

Because the trend started with the iMac.

[SoftTalker]

i<Something>.com was very common during the first dot-com boom. "e" prefixes were also common but I think "i" was more prevalent.