I hope not. The iPad sound too much like Bill Clinton's Bachelor Pad for "WWHI"!
What is "WWHI"? 'Wayward White House Interns', of course!
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Apple Takes Control of 'TabletMac' Trademark
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I hope not. The iPad sound too much like Bill Clinton's Bachelor Pad for "WWHI"!
What is "WWHI"? 'Wayward White House Interns', of course!
not exactly.
Cisco had bought the iphone mark from another company some 6-7 years ago and then did nothing with it. It was only after they found out that Apple was going to pick up the mark after it had legally expired (due to the lack of use) that they announced they were releasing in 'iphone' (about a month before the legal deadline) which they did some 3 months after the Apple one. Their hold on the mark was legally very thin but Apple decided not to bother with the lawsuit and agreed to a sharing of the mark. Had they pursued in court it is possible they would have won the mark outright.
My guess on this issue is that Axiotron doesn't see any logic in continuing their modification once Apple's tablet hits the market. So they won't need it. And/or they know they are potentially on thin ice using 'Mac' in the name so it is best to just give up the mark without a fuss.
and in keeping with the current i+what it is naming it will be the iTablet. Camel Cap and all.
so you say. but the dominant rumor suggests that the tech is in between the iPod Touch and the Macbook so the cost may be as well.
It is unlikely that they are going to degrade the Macbook sales by making a tablet that is just the Axiotron with Apple's logo on it. The logical piece is to make a true netbook with the ipod functions, and likely ereading and perhaps gaming etc support (via the App Store), not a full blown laptop in a tablet form.
Mac Vaporware
So far the product name should be something like Mac Vaporware. But since the idea of Apple coming out with a tablet or other new model have in the past several years only a rumor by rumor sites & not Apple promises that have not occurred.
That would leave Mac Rumorware for its name at this time.
So far the product name should be something like Mac Vaporware. But since the idea of Apple coming out with a tablet or other new model have in the past several years only a rumor by rumor sites & not Apple promises that have not occurred.
That would leave Mac Rumorware for its name at this time.
Except that according to some rumors, the tablet isn't fully a Mac (i.e. it doesn't run the full version of OS X), but instead it's more like a pumped up iPhone. In which case the name iTablet or iReader or something similar makes more sense (as much as I hate the idea of any more products beginning with "i").
How do you know that all of this is true? You're telling people they're wrong (I gather they may well be, but I have no proof), and you make a few statements that I'm skeptical that you know for sure is true.
Yes, because the anal retentive person is always right. The way you write it, you make it sound like they lobbed a personally offensive statement, like saying something about your mother.
It doesn't sound like you could be friends with people that you disagree with, they have to believe the same thing as you do, or they're out. Talk about a recipe for groupthink.
Cool, but what happened to the 'friends' who didn't agree? body found in a quarry?
You sound like a great guy, let me ask you this: do you always agree when you friends tell you that they don't like a word you have uttered? you probably have fascinating conversations, clean and totally free of abbreviation.
and in conversation you would never say: "Obama" you always say: "Barack Hussein Obama II, 44th President of the United States" right?
just give withering stares, sí?
yes, we're in agreement: it's a member if the iPod family, this model is lovingly referred to by the so-called apple community as the iTouch.
"Apple"? i don't like that word, please refer to the company as "Apple Inc."
You seem really concerned with how dumb people sound - why?
If people want to refer to a device by a pet name, why not?
I'm sure you'll agree that if all readers know which device they are referring there is no problem.
Must be great fun having you as a dad or mum, or even as a friend
Now, I suggest having a glass of warm iMilk, and maybe have some fun with your iDi*k
best
B
PS are you still using iFinal iCut Istudio
Missing the big picture...
I think what everyone is actually missing here is the fact that the address on the document for Apple was "1 Infinite Loop"
I only hope that I too can someday be rich enough to change the name of the street I live on into a witty computer pun.
I think what everyone is actually missing here is the fact that the address on the document for Apple was "1 Infinite Loop"
I only hope that I too can someday be rich enough to change the name of the street I live on into a witty computer pun.
Steve Wozniak is first on the Board of Advisors for Axiotron and has been touting their ModBook from the day it was released. Axiotron has very close Apple ties. They sold and Apple purchased this trademark for VERY good reason
Cool, but what happened to the 'friends' who didn't agree? body found in a quarry?
You sound like a great guy, let me ask you this: do you always agree when you friends tell you that they don't like a word you have uttered? you probably have fascinating conversations, clean and totally free of abbreviation.
and in conversation you would never say: "Obama" you always say: "Barack Hussein Obama II, 44th President of the United States" right?
just give withering stares, sí?
yes, we're in agreement: it's a member if the iPod family, this model is lovingly referred to by the so-called apple community as the iTouch.
"Apple"? i don't like that word, please refer to the company as "Apple Inc."
You seem really concerned with how dumb people sound - why?
If people want to refer to a device by a pet name, why not?
I'm sure you'll agree that if all readers know which device they are referring there is no problem.
Must be great fun having you as a dad or mum, or even as a friend
Now, I suggest having a glass of warm iMilk, and maybe have some fun with your iDi*k
best
B
PS are you still using iFinal iCut Istudio
This is an iTouch
How can I take someone seriously when they call an iPod touch an "iTouch"? I can't. iTouch is lame. So is "OMG", "LOL" and lots of other stupid internet abbreviations. What pains me more is that people say it out loud in conversations now... at least people don't say "LOL" out loud.
Except this would imply it is a version of a Mac Book, i.e a fully fledgd device running full OS 10.5 -10.6
TabletBac dosen't flow off the tounge as snoothly as MacTablet
It's been called Modbook for years; as far as I know it was always marketed as Modbook, never "Tablet Mac." I think this proves nothing about Apple's intentions for a tablet product.
I think MacBook will become the tablets name and all current macbooks will become macbookpro. iPad sounds more like a gaming device.
Why would a non-folding device have the name book in it? Its much more likely that the name will have to do with the tablet esque look of the thing.
I don't think they should, but they could. Some people said that Apple would never make the "fat" nano, and the same thing happened with the tall screen nano. I think the same happened with the video recording too.