Why do people write "I-phone"?

[XPav]

Proper usage: iPhone

Alright, iPerhaps you haven't read the Job's guide to diction. That's fine. IPhone, Iphone, iphone, ok, those are just as easy to write.

But why do people go over with their fingers and add a superfluous symbol into it? I-phone. Why?

[Pogo]

shit is 'nilla son

[Spoit]

It's a heckuva lot closer to tha fancy 'correct' name than calling the iPod Touch the iTouch

[Zylon]

But why do people go over with their fingers add a superfluous symbol into it? I-phone. Why?
The same reason people write "digital download" instead of just "download".

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[Creole Ned]

Alright, I perhaps you haven't read the Job's guide to diction.
This is like the secret joke or something, right?

[ReptileHouse]

I still have to remind myself not to just call it "the phone." Scary how many people know what I'm talking about without any context even when I do call it that.

[chequers]

Don't worry X-Pav, it's just a fad.

[Rob_Merritt]

I-don't-know.

[metta]

Why-do-you-care?

[Skipper]

It's a heckuva lot closer to tha fancy 'correct' name than calling the iPod Touch the iTouch

I even do that. Apple brought this on itself with the whole one word with "i" business: iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone ... then suddenly iPod Touch? I don't think so buster. We shall call it iTouch. Do you iHear me?!?

[Aszurom]

e-Tards

[datter]

iTards?

[sam and the firefly]

I even do that. Apple brought this on itself with the whole one word with "i" business: iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone ... then suddenly iPod Touch? I don't think so buster. We shall call it iTouch. Do you iHear me?!?

Touch isn't a concrete noun, though. iTouch sounds like a yuppie sex toy.

It's more like they had iPod photo, iPod nano, iPod mini...iPod touch. Works for me.

[CLWheeljack]

An argument (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29FOB-onlanguage-t.html)made that capitalization and spacing conventions facilitate ease of reading and comprehension.

[Aszurom]

What a whiney art fag.

"I could print it here to show you, but I refuse to allow my prose to be so disfigured."

This is the text equivalent of saying you won't be on film because you only work on stage... because you're a *true* AC-TOR!