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Apple Purchased iSlate.com in 2007. Apple's New Tablet Called iSlate?

ntrigue said:
Slate is beautiful. It's solid. It's quality. It's thin and light.
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From the Thesaurus
slate
verb
we've slated your speech for 2:10 on Thursday afternoon plan, schedule, book; organize, arrange.

From the Dictionary
slate |slāt|
noun


2 a flat piece of slate used for writing on, typically framed in wood, formerly used in schools.

• a range of something offered : the company has revealed details of a $60 million slate of film productions.
• a board showing the identifying details of a take of a motion picture, which is held in front of the camera at its beginning and end.

verb [ trans. ]

4 identify (a movie take) using a slate.
PHRASES
wipe the slate clean see wipe .

DERIVATIVES
slaty |ˈsleɪdi| adjective
ORIGIN Middle English sclate, sklate, shortening of Old French esclate, feminine, synonymous with esclat ‘piece broken off’ (see slat ). Sense 3 of the verb arose from the practice of noting a name on a writing slate.


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MacTouch.

BTW, I have a slate PC and hate it. It's a nightmare for inputting any worthwhile data (writing long emails, etc). Tapping and pecking with the stylus is tiresome.

Yes, I realize AAPL will have an iPhone like capacitive touch, but still, it's hard to beat a physical keyboard on a computer.
 
rth231 said:
Yes it redirects to Apple.com but how exactly does that mean Apple owns it? Couldn't I easily buy sexytimewithgoats.com and just redirect it to MacRumors?

PS: Don't try that link... I didn't test it, nor do I want to. However, if you have a weird thing for goats, by all means...

EDIT: I had to try that site, curiosity won in the end. Sexytimewithgoats.com doesn't exist, so if anyone wants to buy it... first come first serve!
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Snap up that domain name and here's a short clip for the home page:
http://www.jimmeruk.com/Video/windows-startup-prank.html
 
wizard said:
Is anyone else getting tired about all the whining heard here for products not yet delivered or even announced? I mean really just what feature do you imagine would be missing based on a name?
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Oh my gosh, someone with an ounce of sense! :eek:
 
coolbreeze said:
MacTouch.

Yes, I realize AAPL will have an iPhone like capacitive touch, but still, it's hard to beat a physical keyboard on a computer.
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I heard that kind of argument when computers began to switch from "typewriter" type of key action to the more common "chicklet" keys of today. If people can adapt to something that has some advantages as well as downsides, they will adapt. If it has no advantages, or the downsides are too great, they will refuse to support the change. A good example is the difference in how people dislike the Droid physical keyboard vs. the iPhone virtual keyboard.
 
arn said:
The difference here is that Apple didn't just pick up "islate.com" for $10/year. They actually went through the trouble of negotiating with a 3rd party.
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Ugh, and yet another scummy domain squatter cashes in. :(
 
SandynJosh said:
I heard that kind of argument when computers began to switch from "typewriter" type of key action to the more common "chicklet" keys of today. If people can adapt to something that has some advantages as well as downsides, they will adapt.
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Yep. Remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the iPhone doomsayers? That the virtual keyboard would be a massive failure? Wrong. I find the iPhone keyboard to be extremely usable - enjoyable even.

iPhone competitors are finally - 2 years later - starting to realize this. You'll see fewer and fewer physical keyboards in upcoming devices.

SandynJosh said:
A good example is the difference in how people dislike the Droid physical keyboard vs. the iPhone virtual keyboard.
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The Droid keyboard is crap. A physical keyboard merely for the sake of a physical keyboard - and a horrendous physical keyboard at that. Flat, almost no tactile feedback, no distinct separation between keys - it's nothing more than a plastic representation of a virtual keyboard. What's the point?

MorphingDragon said:
Yep, you should try it one day. You might actually like it.
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Having been on the beatdown side of this equation - trying to name a new business based solely on finding an available domain that isn't being squatted on (an impossible task) - I loathe this business practice.
 
Merry xmas or whatever you celebrate MacRumours posters and lurkers where ever you are in the world!!!!! Oh and not iSlate please, or else it will get slated :)
 
iSlate is a good name.

You have to understand the device was designed to be an iconic appliance. iTablet was really always just a placeholder name for a touchscreen device that's been rumored for over a decade.

The essential functions of a tablet are nowhere near what Apple's technical aspirations were from the beginning. In Steve Jobs' mind, 'tablet' is a Bill Gates term for an antiquated (and thus failed) idea of handwriting-based input.

Given Microsoft's failed attempts, the word 'tablet' has a become a burnt out and eroded term. For Apple to pick up the term and just stick the "i" would've been conforming to a category that's too mediocre to categorize this device. The tactile feedback, advanced multi-touch, and UI are distinct enough to warrant an entirely new name. (The iPhone name was a big exception in this line of thought, since Apple was entering an existing 2-billion unit market, and its brand clarity and simplicity were key.)

'iSlate' is as new to the consumer's conscience as 'iPod' was. It quickly tells you the thing was built to display an infinite amount of media. Practice saying it and notice how it slips out of one's tongue like a finger through glass. Simple.
 
I don't know about you guys; but, the only names that make asthetic sense to me are "MacBook Slate" and "MacBook Tablet."
 

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iJesus said:
I don't know about you guys; but, the only names that make asthetic sense to me are "MacBook Slate" and "MacBook Tablet."
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I completely disagree.

I think the naming process has more to do with the general public's perception than aesthetics. (Apple uses the same font on all of its products).

Names like MacBook Slate or MacBook Tablet are stupid names because they're too loaded, heavy, and confusing for a handheld appliance. It would be equivalent of the device weighing 20 pounds.

Even if Steve were stubborn enough, the device, people, is simply not a Mac. It simply will not run full Mac OS X.
 
ChuckG said:
I completely disagree.

I think the naming process has more to do with the general public's perception than aesthetics. (Apple uses the same font on all of its products).

Names like MacBook Slate or MacBook Tablet are stupid names because they're too loaded, heavy, and confusing for a handheld appliance. It would be equivalent of the device weighing 20 pounds.

Even if Steve were stubborn enough, the device, people, is simply not a Mac. It simply will not run full Mac OS X.
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Yeah, Apple does only use one font for its products (Myriad) but they use different weights:

Regular: Family names such as MacBook Pro, MacBook, iPod.
Light with first letter being uppercase only appears on Macs (MacBook air)
Light with all lowercase are for iPods: classic, touch, etc.

The iPod Touch is an example of something the general public has renamed as the iTouch. Perhaps Apple has taken this into consideration and suspects that if they do come out with a product titled "MacBook Slate" people will just call it the "iSlate."

Kind of like when people ask me if I have the Apple Air.
 
Check back in a few months or a year. We'll be so used to the name "iSlate" that we won't remember that it could have had another name.
 
Eidorian said:
Scaled up iPhone apps, goodie.
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I think we all know better, and we also know that Apple knows better than to do something like this. It WILL have some feature that will stand it out for sure... Maybe it wasn't something for your particular use but in the past couple of years can you think of anything that Apple has released that has been an absolute let down? (I'm going to exclude the 3Gs per being in denile... BUT I still bought it, and I'm sure that I will get the tablet no matter what it is.
 
What is it was Simply "Slate" or "Apple Slate"? They would buy the domain iSlate.com to get people thinking that it's the iSlate. Or they named it the iSlate :D I personally don't have any problem with the name, but it is very unexpected. Doesn't sound like an Apple product. But if this is true and it is called iSlate, like Doctor Q said, "We'll be so used to the name "iSlate" that we won't remember that it could have had another name". I'm sure if I heard the word iPod before it's debut I'd think it would be odd.
 
MacBook Touch

My Money's on MacBook Touch, unless it turns out to be an e-reader type product.

Merry Christmas Everyone
 
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