We’ve been arguing for months about whether or not this new tablet that Apple may, or may not be announcing is going to be name an iTablet, or an iSlate, but now we have a third option to add to the mix. The — wait for it — iPad.
Obviously references aside the name is still… terrible. Sure, it’s a cousin to the iPod, but do we really need people walking around referring to things as their Pad? Really?
So why the iPad you might be asking? Well apparently some people spend a lot of time looking into Apple patents, and they seem to be pretty damn good at it. So good in fact that they’re making a lot of us web journalists look bad. What they turned up was a dummy corporation owned by Apple called Slate computing (go figure), who has apparently applied for a trademark on iPad in 2009 in Canada. But, the shenanigans don’t end there, similar companies have also filed trademarks in Europe, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia. The filings in New Zealand, and Australia were submitted on Friday, January 15, 2010.
Internet sources need to be taken with a giant bag of salt, but there’s a lot of trademarks pointing to the same thing now. I hope that Apple’s just trying to throw us off the scent, because I’m not sure I can stomach all the Pad references over the next 5 years. If you know what I’m saying.
[via MacRumors]
January 21st, 2010 at 3:16 pm
I think this one puts the applet tablet name discussion to rest (it’s iSlate):
http://ipad.org/apple-registers-islate-com-domain-name/
January 24th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
The arguing can’t go on much longer, you have till Wednesday to jump to the other side. iSlate is the way to go.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:38 am
The ipad is actually totally ridiculous. I can’t find myself dropping $400 to $600 for a unit which can’t accomplish most of the things that my laptop computer could. I typically like Apple, particularly the iphone. But seems a little overboard. I wish them well however I will not be getting one at any time in the near future.
April 29th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Personally, I iPad also made suits and all that you wanted to obtain from such a thin and small device?
January 29th, 2010 at 2:41 am
Steve Jobs announces the iPad, except you can access half the (flash) internet – WTF?
January 29th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
With HTML5 implementing video control mechanisms flash might become a thing of the past pretty quickly. It totally sucks for now, but if developers started doing what YouTube just did to their video player we wouldn’t even notice.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Mac’s stellar innovation will rapidly grow after this initial pumped up period during it’s launch. The A4 chip and Apple’s potential to fix defections will definitly to make the iPad a huge product in the futuire.
February 21st, 2010 at 8:40 am
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