Why am I having a feeling that one of their reasons was so they can trademark "iQ", to match the iSomething "franchise", so to speak?

Apple dropped the "i" naming scheme many years ago.

	▲	sgjohnson an hour ago \| parent [-]
		iCloud, iPad, iPhone, iMac, iMessage, iOS/iPadOS, iMovie? Granted, they are slowly but surely killing it, but it’s still going quite strong.