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Will Apple's Tablet Actually Be Called the iPad? New Trademarks Filed This Week

bsblvnv said:
This thing will kill the Kindle, and all the other eReaders. So take a great name from your past Apple and call it the iBook.
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iBook was one of the top hopes and guesses for the name. But that name is best reserved for when multitouch is brought to a 2-screen device. (Folding laptop with 2nd screen instead of keyboard). Now that would be the killer eBook reader.

In the meantime it would be nice to slip two iPads into a book jacket, and have them share content, displays and user data. See a 2-page book spread; email on one page, read on the other, drag notes across etc. Multitasking before the iPhone OS allows it (dualtasking anyway :)

At 3 pounds it would be a coffee table book. So i might hold out for the paperback version (iBooklet): two ~7" screens with no bezel.
 
flybynite said:
a 2-page book spread; email on one page, read on the other, drag notes across etc. Multitasking before the iPhone OS allows it (dualtasking anyway :)

At 3 pounds it would be a coffee table book. So i might hold out for the paperback version (iBooklet): two ~7" screens with no bezel.
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Not just 3 pounds, think of the size to 10" screens, it would be like the Rand McNally World Atlas. Heck you would have to make a special desk just to hold the thing, would be much better at 7 inches.

Am I the only one that saw this coming in middle school though. I mean sitting there reading the text books and thinking about the scifi movies that we had back in the day and dreaming up basically exactly what we have in the iPad.

If only I had thought to get a patent for the thing back in 1989. :D
 
bsblvnv said:
Not just 3 pounds, think of the size to 10" screens, it would be like the Rand McNally World Atlas. Heck you would have to make a special desk just to hold the thing, would be much better at 7 inches.

Am I the only one that saw this coming in middle school though. I mean sitting there reading the text books and thinking about the scifi movies that we had back in the day and dreaming up basically exactly what we have in the iPad.

If only I had thought to get a patent for the thing back in 1989. :D
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We're both exaggerating the heft of this hypothetical 2-iPad device a little... it would be the same weight as the MacBook Air.

I know what you mean about hoping for this exact thing for so long. I was sketching this 2-screen digital book idea in college, but that was like, 1990 so you can have the patent ;-)
 
Your right I didn't even think about weight it would only be 3 pounds plus whatever you used to hold it together, I remember the textbooks being heavier than that. And now that we have the patent issue out of the was maybe I will call Apple, tell them I had the idea first and that if the will call it the iBook I will drop my claim to it :D
 
spillproof said:
Apple needs to read this thread. Or any of the thousands of articles written about (making fun of) the iPad.

Or is this all a marketing gimmick? iPad = bloody tampons = kid's jokes = advertisement?

LagunaSol said:
I don't like the name iPad, but not because of the imagined "bloody tampon" reference. I doubt Apple cares one bit about the halfwits who immediately associate the name iPad with a tampon when the word "pad" has many other, more obvious meanings. Grow up people.

Seriously, the Mac community used to be full of intelligent, rational folks who had intelligent, rational discussions. Now it's full of delinquents talking about bloody tampons? What the heck happened? Is this the price we pay for the Switcher phenomenon?

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lol I'm sorry. Believe it or not, the first time I ever heard the term "iPad", I did not think of a tampon. I think I thought something on the lines of "Pad? Pad of what? Butter?"
But now, because everyone is calling it MaxiPad and the what not, I can't help of think of a tampon every time I see or hear iPad, and I know a lot of other people can't help think the same thing either.

Really, NO ONE at Apple thought of a tampon or MaxiPad. Not one single person from design to development to sales and marking said "hey, that name many not be the best idea because...". I don't believe it. Or they did and Steve didn't care. Immature jokes are still indirectly advertising.
 
It's funny to see how many people either bashed the name, or simply said that Apple will never name it that. 5 years on and we're all loving the Ipad :)
 
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