WORST PRODUCT NAME EVER
Proof that there are no women involved in the big decisions at Apple.
(Steve Jobs)
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Im so glad i wont be buying one of these,
Why?
cus its a wanabe practical PDA, its not war-able nor selfsufficient, its an instafail from apple
Too bad even if you wish it’s an instafail product, it will still sell regardless of the name because it has an Apple logo on it. Already has a better chance than Windows Tablet.
I pitty da foo’s that buy this thing out of the gate. You can’t multitask, it doesn’t support Flash, and there’s not even a camera on the thing. Maybe those things will be addressed in the next generation, but I’m not waiting. I’ll be buying the Tablet.
it’s a $500 e-book reader and ipod.
Best response of 2010!!! The drooling retard analogy made me spit coffee
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it’ll sell, artisan’s rite, he shudnt be but he is! oh well, if ya dnt like it, dnt buy it, i know i wont, i cant work those kinda things!!
You can’t install anything on it. It’s a fricking giant iPod Touch. Screw that!!
Remember when everybody wet their knickers over the Nintendo Wii? Yeah. Seriously, when will people get over this.
And by that I mean the name, not the product.
Just my thought exactly when I saw this one. The internet backlash to the name iPad was only a fraction of the backlash to the name Wii.
I work in the games industry and my colleagues spend all day playing with Wii.
It never stops sounding wrong. Never.
So basically if you’re suffering from Nintendo Wii you should wear an iPad.
LOL, this is the best common yet.
Ha!
AWESOME LOL
Ah dear, this would be more funny if it wasn’t old already. Linky to see the top eleven executives at Apple, who are all male (yeah, as a female, somehow I was not shocked).
Blah blah, insert joke about Apple changing vowels around to name new products, they’re so unoriginal. iPood and iPeed must also be in the lineup if this is the way things are headed, ha ha ha.
I myself am holding out for the ultimate Apple gadget: the iPaid.
Appending with another link….the MadTV version of the iPad, which pre-dates this product. You’d think Apple could at least google teh interwebs to see if anyone else had parodied, say, an Apple feminine hygiene product before EVER. Never thought I’d see MadTV being compared to Nostradamus.
Wow, that lack of attached link must have been the biggest failure since…yeah, it’s old. Okay, said link is here now.
Where?
You know, that was what I first thought of when people were talking about the iPad. So I thought it was a joke until I saw pictures…It’s still a gross mental image.
No women involved?
Well, if you don’t count Steve Jobs…
I guess you guys have never heard of the ThinkPad. Or used a notepad. Or a mousepad.
Except the Apple branding name necessarily begs the consumer to disregard the “i” (all their gadgets have it) and recognize the product by the second part of the name. And if you ask a female past puberty “do you have a pad” I’m pretty sure a “mousepad” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
I think the best reason to mock Apple over this is because there were alternative names (“iTablet”) without the same connotative meanings that they *should have seen coming* with iPad.
The “iTablet”, or the “home-made sweetie” as all Scots will think of it. You were saying?
At least it’s a better connotation than a feminine hygiene product, IMO
I’m not a marketing exec so please excuse my lame example.
Personally, I think iTab would have been a better name.
The iLSD! Were you trying to come up with a name that had even worse connotations than iPad?
So we disregard the i for all apple products? I don’t think I’ve heard pod, pod shuffle, or pod touch before. I have heard book and phone before but I don’t think those are references to the laptop or cellphone…
That’s not what I mean by the extraneous “I”. The iPod and iBook (“netbook”, “notebook” computers) have been grandfathered into pop culture by now, with the resulting fad of adding the letter before *any* word and making it an Apple product. Back when the “I” was new, it functioned as a defining part of the name but that is no longer the case.
New products like the iPhone are instead defined by the word in the name. (Phone is equivalent to cellphone in the correct context these days, at least in my experience. The kids at my college refer to them as such.) So when naming the new product the pop culture fad has to either be considered when choosing the brand from an existing name, or else choosing something off-the-wall like Pod which will later define the product.
Naming it the “iPad” is marketing genius! Look at how everyone is talking about it because of it’s name; the product name is out there. MadTV provided a free commercial. They knew exactly what they were doing. If you didn’t know what it was then, you certainly know what it is now if not just out of pure curiosity.
And develop an outright disgust for the product for failing to be useful. As it is, the iPad is only useful as something to make fun of.
Every time I see this kludge I think of the onion’s spoof of the macbook wheel.
You too, huh?
I’m kind of disappointed, i was expecting it to be a touchscreen macbook so i was excited at first.
It is the mac version of a kindle, and i don’t want one of those either.
Me too. I’m so disappointed. It’s pretty useless, regardless of the name.
Does this mean not too far away is the iPon?
Will the next gen have wings?
No, but it will be superabsorbant regarding all software that dribbles it’s way.
Or… Proof positive NO ONE WATCHES SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ANYMORE
Course no one watch SNL. They watch Mad TV where the iPad spoof was made. Duh.
*applauds*
Ponder this – Hockey players wear pads during the period. Ahe he he.
I wanted to get it until I discovered it doesnt SUPPORT FLASH. How does that make it the best web browsing experience ever? FAIL! OOoh so I can manipulate it with my fingers. Big friggin deal. At least a lap top with Windows would let me use flash based sites. Screw you Apple!
Flash is made of fail and would drain the battery too quickly…
AKA, they failed in making a good enough battery for the iPad. Don’t make excuses.
This is the biggest piece of garbage Apple has put out. I hope it bombs.
With the thing he’s holding and the shirt he’s wearing he could have come from an early Startrek episode with a role of Intergalactic Trader !
I can see that
So that would make him an iTrader?
I’m no Apple fan, but the fact that most people are obsessed with the name of this thing and making juvenile jokes about it proves this civilization thing isn’t working out.
There sure is a lot of hate, isn’t there? Whether or not you like something, the best way to show your dislike for a product is to simply not buy it. Slamming it only demonstrates personal insecurity.
Putting down a product demonstrates personal insecurity? No, putting down other people demonstrates personal insecurity.
Insulting a product demonstrates that you don’t like the idea.
Are you kidding? Making juvenile jokes about pathetic products is the very foundation of democracy!
(Or at least of roflrazzi. Perhaps you should frequent a different site?)
I agree with cgray. That is sad, especially since there are bigger flaws in the product besides its name.
Jobs is a pretty widely-known misogynist starting in the 70s with the birth of the little girl he insisted be named Lisa even though he still hasn’t admitted he’s the father. What an a-hole.
(Mac support technician and lifelong Mac user)
heh heh. He said “pad”.
For those heavier information flow days and probably for the abdominal cramping MPRs.
Very professional..I like your style!!
Does no one remember what they carried around on Star Trek? the hand held is called a PADD!!
No women involved in the naming, but some padophiles.
Well, they didn’t name it the iPon.
maybe there are, they just have a strange sense of humour
Name fail!
this is on the heels of apple’s recent product, the TamPod.
Apple is a hugely successful multi-billion dollar company: Proof that there are no women involved in the big decisions at Apple… Ha!
This is the biggest fail by apple yet. And that’s saying something.
next year…
iTampon