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

When there are more apples than simply 'Macintosh'...

While I prefer iPad to iSlate, I believe that Apple has lost some originality in its naming techniques. What I never understood is why they stopped at one variety of apple when they named the 'Macintosh'. For a new, tranformative device, they should use another apple category. Some other suggestions:

1) Granny Smith
2) Fuji
3) Falstaff
4) Red Delicious
5) Pink Lady
6) Dorsett Golden
7) Fireside
8) Golden Delicious
9) Novamac
10) Regent

The list goes on...
 
Name of "The Thing"

It won't be named:

iSlate - Because Apple does want to sell a few of these outside the USA ;)
iPad - Because it's too close to IPod, and mostly because everybody is calling it that way :D

:apple:
 
inote
iview
itouch
icon
iheld
icreate
ilisten
iplay
ibook
ilook

lol idontknow.... but out of the ones i randomly typed off my head I like "iview" or "inote"
 
iPad sounds like Cartman trying to say iPod.

And they can't call it iTouch, because that's what everybody calls the iPod touch.
 
Personally, I like iTouch. Just imagine the marketing possibilities:

Touch. Work. (cloud-based iWork)
Touch. Knowledge. (eBooks and textbooks)
Touch. The web.
Touch. Fun. (iPhone OS 4-based gaming, but with significantly upgraded graphics, memory and CPU)
Touch. Music. (cloud-based iTunes library and browser-based store)
Touch. Life. (cloud-based iLife)

Now you can have it all, and take it with you, with the new Apple iTouch!
 
I've got two...

The ad looks like a painter's palette, so I thought: iPalette.

And one of my own devise: iSlab.
 
mac1984user said:
While I prefer iPad to iSlate, I believe that Apple has lost some originality in its naming techniques. What I never understood is why they stopped at one variety of apple when they named the 'Macintosh'. For a new, tranformative device, they should use another apple category. Some other suggestions:

1) Granny Smith
2) Fuji
3) Falstaff
4) Red Delicious
5) Pink Lady
6) Dorsett Golden
7) Fireside
8) Golden Delicious
9) Novamac
10) Regent

The list goes on...
Click to expand...

"Have you checked out the new Granny Smith? It's a must-have!" "They're porting their app to Granny Smith." "Microsoft is hoping to develop a new Granny Smith killer."
 
MacinDoc said:
Personally, I like iTouch. Just imagine the marketing possibilities:

Touch. Work. (cloud-based iWork)
Touch. Knowledge. (eBooks and textbooks)
Touch. The web.
Touch. Fun. (iPhone OS 4-based gaming, but with significantly upgraded graphics, memory and CPU
Touch. Music. (cloud-based iTunes library and browser-based store)
Touch. Life. (cloud-based iLife)

Now you can have it all, and take it with you, with the new Apple iTouch!
Click to expand...

With everyone calling the iPod touch the Apple iTouch (annoys me so much), I'm sure apple won't call it the iTouch...
 
mac1984user said:
While I prefer iPad to iSlate, I believe that Apple has lost some originality in its naming techniques. What I never understood is why they stopped at one variety of apple when they named the 'Macintosh'. For a new, tranformative device, they should use another apple category. Some other suggestions:

1) Granny Smith
2) Fuji
3) Falstaff
4) Red Delicious
5) Pink Lady
6) Dorsett Golden
7) Fireside
8) Golden Delicious
9) Novamac
10) Regent

The list goes on...
Click to expand...

Strictly speaking the Macintosh is the second type of Apple they have used, as the Lisa was the first
 
microsoft was thinking "Where do you want to [pretend] to go today?"

But Apple came up with some thing better: "Take the Internet with you today."

How about "The Apple"
or "The Great Apple"

iWeb

.
 
I think, therefore iMac.
Anyone remember that one?

I see something coming:

I bleed, therefore iPad.
 
I think iPad is already taken by several companies. Here's an example of two.

iPad
3389082
International Registration Number 0885058
Registration Date February 26, 2008
Owner (REGISTRANT) Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft FED REP GERMANY Wittelsbacherplatz 2 80333 München FED REP GERMANY
Attorney of Record LAWRENCE E ABELMAN
Priority Date February 28, 2006
Description of Mark Color is not claimed as a feature of the mark.
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
----------------------------------
IPAD
3396165
Registration Date March 11, 2008
Owner (REGISTRANT) COCONUT GROVE PADS, INC. CORPORATION CANADA 525 DENISON STREET UNIT 1 MARKHAM, ONTARIO CANADA L3R 1B8
Attorney of Record RICHARD S. ROSS, ESQ.
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
 
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