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Think "Google" as a verb. "iGoogle" means, "I, Google".[1] (Same logic can be applied to the iPhone)

According to iMac's history on Wikipedia[2], "i" stood for "Internet". (Again, same logic can be applied to the iPhone and iPad. No idea about iPod, which came after iMac but before iPhone and iPad)

[1] This is my personal opinion. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#History

I always thought it meant 'my'. My Google, My pod..

... Internet Pod? For an offline music player?

the i in apple's products make no sense either

I think in their minds it was about the expression of ones identity, and showing that you're such and unique snowflake.

It used to when they created the iMac, or 'internet mac', back when the WWW was still novel to most people.

iCEO(Interim CEO a.k.a Steve Jobs) started that "i" series of products. I guess this was the inheritance chain.

interactive?