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Apple has history with others giving their products similar sounding names, and I'm surprised that Apple didn't try to get the iPad name transferred to itself since it is so much like iPod.
 
Ipad

So my girl wants to know if she can use this instead of her regular pads since its bigger it should be more absorbent.
 
iAnything is the Apple brand for it's products. Many of their products have used such branding for the last 10 years. Does Fujitsu have any other product named iSomething? No. They're leveraging Apple's brand for their own purposes.

Of course, Apple could have picked a name a bit further in advance than say... oh... a week prior to the announcement... :rolleyes:

I do find it amusing how other companies rip off Apple and then try to sue Apple for infringing on their own brand...
 
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.

Yep, Ballmer ripped one and then snuck out of the room right before Jobs walked in (classic frat boy tricks work every time!). Silly Jobs added insult to injury by going instead with "iPad." Badly played, Mr. Jobs, badly played.

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"Check out our new computer form factors, which we invented. We call them *airquote* Slates! *airquote*"
 
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.

ok, how about calling it iPad Touché?
 
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 Love The Name 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.
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. :confused:
 
I like the product somehow, I'm tired of moving my Macbook from the Living Room to mine, so on and so on. And I can't type that well on my iTouch either.

But the name isn't really one that I've had in mind prior launch and really believed it to be the iSlate or just the Apple Tablet.

I feel for most of you who own a iPod or iPhone or at worst, both. It's just like you're repeating another couple of years with the iPad, but all of my friends who don't have any of those Apple Devices are going crazy waiting for the iPad
 
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.

What about the iMac which doesn't have a "iP"
 
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!
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.
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.
If you don't call feminine napkins "pads", then what do you call them over there?
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.
My friends and I are in our 30s. If we get our period unexpectedly, we ask each other if the other has a pad.

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.
if you owned a dictionary or knew how to use the internet you would know that a tampon is both.
You need to cite your dictionary. Because I think you read the wrong entry.
 
When I think "pad" I certainly think of something you write in more than a sanitary product. We do call them sanitary pads here in the UK, but not in a way that most people would make the connection. People are being pretty silly.

I like ipad. "Tablet" sounds bigger, and it's also a form factor the public perceive as a failure already.

Slate was ok but doesn’t make as much sense to me as ipad. A real pad contains whatever stuff you want to fill it with, they're a really multifunctional thing millions of people use every day. Slates don't and aren't.
 
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