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

iJesus said:
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.
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By your logic, Apple would've also reserved Air.com and Touch.com

I'm guessing the device's name was intended to be a word that has the zing to replace "book" or "magazine" or "tv" and can represent all of those functions. In that sense, iSlate works really well. It reminds me of the omnipotent monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

iSlate is not a long word, nor an extension of any product family. It'd be the fourth leg in Apple's four-legged stool, as Steve Jobs would say.

-Mac
-iPhone
-iPod/iTunes
-iSlate

Each division with a different name and market in mind. Nice and simple.
 
Name'zz

It will be interesting to see the naming outcome now...
The speculation over gen 3 iPhone, then turning out to be called 3Gs...

Who knows it may not yet be named as yet, or maybe it is...
iSlate may be just shoring up options...

iPod Slate
iPod Tablet

Macbook Slate
Macbook Touch
MacBook Tablet
MacBook Tile
MacBook Pad
MacBook Shingle
MacBook Pantile
MacBook Quire
MacBook Jotter
MacBook Ice
MacBook Scratch [hmm a bit harsh]

iPod Rosetta [Stone]
MacBook Rosetta [Stone]
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Let's suppose they want to call it the "Slate". It makes sense they would snatch up several iterations of that, especially, "islate". Of course they's want slate.com but it's taken. So islate.com is as much evidence of the device being called Slate as it is iSlate. Keep in mind, they didn't use the "i" for the Touch. They used the "i"for iPhone because Phone wouldn't be good. For Tuch, it was unique enough to drop the "i". Slate is also unique enough. AND we heard that news paper exec call it the Slate, not iSlate.
 
The name "iSlate" sounds kinda of ugly, "Slate" is an ugly word on its own... but iTablet is lame as well... can't is jut be "The Apple Tablet"? I mean MacBooks don't have the "i" prefix, so that means that not everything made by Apple has to have it... It could be called... MacPad... or something :) No that's lame too...
 
Andronicus said:
It's not iSlate (eye-slate) but it's pronounced "is-late"....
That's all I've got...
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Ha, that'll never get old.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Chiat+Day agency guys told Steve that the "ICE-LAID" gives it a subliminal cool factor. Sneaky, eh?

Don't forget there are ad people (Don Draper, anyone?) that actually earn a living picking out and researching words like Bing, Pod, Wii, Zune, etc. Bottom line is can you sell the f*****g thing to people that haven't heard of it in obsessive forums and blogs?
 
It's almost certainly "Slate", not "iSlate". The i prefix is still associated by most people with Apple, and Apple often secure domain names 'around' the actual product name in order to catch people who might have got it slightly wrong and redirect them to the site.

The Apple Slate it is, imo.

Plus that NYT guy said it.
 
Yixian said:
It's almost certainly "Slate", not "iSlate". The i prefix is still associated by most people with Apple, and Apple often secure domain names 'around' the actual product name in order to catch people who might have got it slightly wrong and redirect them to the site.

The Apple Slate it is, imo.

Plus that NYT guy said it.
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I don't see how Apple could possibly trademark 'Slate.'
 
The could trademark the "Apple Slate" and "Slate" would still be used as the de facto name for the device.
 
Yixian said:
The could trademark the "Apple Slate" and "Slate" would still be used as the de facto name for the device.
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Could happen. But people would get confused with Slate Magazine.

It would make sense for Apple to drop the "i" moniker, you know, beginning a new decade with a more direct naming scheme. The NYT editor did say "impending Apple slate," but could've just goofed it, as most dinosaurs usually do.:D

'Slate' is a lock though.
 
Honestly, if it is called the iSlate. I would buy enough of them if I had the money to make a slate roof with them. Just for the sake of taking the P1ss out of it. :D I mean an iSlate, that's a terrible name.
 
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There is another possibility might be...

A new 'class' of Apple computing device... the Tab, Tablet, Slate, Shingle name could be the prefix...

Because if it's not an iPod, and not a Mac or MacBook...

Then it's now a new class or line of Apple computing device...

So instead of MacBook or iPod...

Tablet Media or iTab Slate, Tablet Educator...
Tablet Mac
 
Slate makes sense if you think about what used to be done on them. Everything. Kids didn't have paper in school, all lessons were done on their slates. It was cherished.

Looking at it from that aspect, it really is the best name I've seen thown out.

Not hip on the iSlate, but slate works for me.

Now I have a kid up. Bring on Christmas!
 
I was always under the understanding that Mac/iBooks meant that it had a lid, or top cover, like a reading book. So I guess we can definitely count out the Macbook esk name

As for iSlate it could be as either people have said on the site; it's either just protecting the name via a domain purchase, or something else. But normally companies won't protect a domain name unless they intend to have a product by that name.

But we should all wait for the 26th, where they'll probably just announce the new Macbook Pros with the new Intel chip :apple:

http://www.itablet.com/
 
TraceyS/FL said:
Slate makes sense if you think about what used to be done on them. Everything. Kids didn't have paper in school, all lessons were done on their slates. It was cherished.

Looking at it from that aspect, it really is the best name I've seen thown out.

Not hip on the iSlate, but slate works for me.

Now I have a kid up. Bring on Christmas!
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Exactly.

In that context, the name is a turnoff, so I see why people are complaining.

The iPod was inspired by the shiny cool white space pods in 2001. The slate on the other hand, is a 19th century relic used by our greatx4 grandparents during the time of the US Civil War and Pancho Villa. Not sexy or futuristic at all by comparison. :(

Lesser Evets said:
iSlate....

How appropriate: IS LATE.
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And if you play too much with it, U will be LATE.
 
bedifferent said:
Well, I know opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one lol, but here's mine.

iDon't like it. MacTab or MacAnything would be a better option in my opinion. Then again, I also didn't like the rudimentary "iPhone" when it was announced. For a device that is more than a "phone", I thought iMobile would have been better.
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A Mac[x] product indicates that it runs full blown OS X or a touch variant of the full version you find in the current line up. The device being revealed on the 26th will be running a custom OS X just like the iPhone OS.
 
Whatever the name is we will eventually get used to it... Remember how dumb MacBook Air sounded at first? Well now it just seems normal. I'm more concerned about the devices functionality.
 
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