Apple should have picked a better name, but let's move on from the juvenile tampon references. It's just embarrassing (not for Apple, for the tampon-obsessed commenters).
I like the name. In fact, I think Apple should rename the iPod Touch to iPad Mini.![]()
I still like iSlate best.
I think it might have been called the iSlate until Balmer mentioned Slate at CES when talking about HP products. Jobs got mad and renamed it iPad. Which is why the trademark mistake with Fujitsu and the last minute filing of the applications.
I like it. Good name.
But.
Don't you think capitalizing the X is a bit much?
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Well they could have just called it an iPod Touch XL because that is what it basically is.
why? the iphone not called iphone touch. the only reason they call the ipod touch is that cause they already have an ipod. plus i sure you will need the ipad trade mark before naming it something like that.
I completely disagree. I love the name iPad because it's only 1 letter different than iPod. Plus it resembles an old pad of paper. I don't understand any of the objections to iPad.iPad is an awful name that even the mainstream press has noted people making fun of.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...01/27/AR2010012704268.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Let's not even talk about the number of times the same juvenile joke has appeared in Macrumors.
Maybe this will be the cover Apple needs to change the name before the product ships.
Apple is all about consistency along a line. There are Macbooks and Macbook Pros. There are iPods, iPhones, and iPads. When the iTV didn't line up with the "iP" name, it became the Apple TV. You could argue that there is also iTunes, but this is a software, not a product. So I doubt Apple would deviate to change the name now to an iSlate or and iTablet or anything like that. And I have no sympathy for companies that started putting a lowercase i in front of their products names just because it would remind people of their beloved iPods and make their product look better. The i is almost part of Apple's image, and if you're going to use that image to gain public favor, then don't bite the hand that feeds.
I bleed on my pads and there's no writing involved. Someone upthread mentioned a bunch of other meanings for pad. The english language is screwed up.if it's a PAD... then you have to be able to WRITE ON IT.
there is no question. pads are written on. end of story.
how can you call it a pad when there is no writing? stupid!
If you don't call feminine napkins "pads", then what do you call them over there?I presume it's 'funny' in the USA, or is it just the playground schoolboys s******ing?, but iPad doesn't mean anything other than a Pad for writing on here in the UK and means nothing elsewhere.
'iTab' - in English English a Tab is a fag. A fag is a cigarette here.
'iSlate' - Apart from 'Is Late', Slate in English English is a verb to criticise. Very negative word.
So, from this side of the pond, the alternatives being suggested are much much much worse than iPad. Re-using 'iBook' might have been an ok idea though and Apple already owned that, especially as they've repurposed it for the iBooks store now.
My friends and I are in our 30s. If we get our period unexpectedly, we ask each other if the other has a pad.Besides I dont know anyone, esp female in the recent decade or so refer to a womens product as a pad....where was the feminist bashing on the "Notepads" lol.
I've heard people call a child's penis a wee-wee. I've also heard other people ask their kids if they want to wee-wee.
You need to cite your dictionary. Because I think you read the wrong entry.if you owned a dictionary or knew how to use the internet you would know that a tampon is both.