Don't be silly. All the items you cite are paired with something
other than a single letter. Launch pad, note pad, lily pad, crash
pad, etc. pair the word with SOMETHING ELSE that is the DOMINANT word
of the pair, and that immediately offers to the reader the image of
something beyond feminine sanitary supplies. iPad emphasises the
word in a way the others don't--you have poor naked little "pad" with
only the lower-case "i" to escort it. And while I admire Apple and
use their products, the heavy promotion of their products--with
rather simple-minded names--can be both annoying and amusing. To see
them so badly misnaming a product inspires amusement and pity, not
offense.
I don't understand how their marketing department could have let them
down so badly, especially with a well-known skit on Mad TV to inform
them on the perils of such a choice of names. I want Apple to stay
in business; making stupid mistakes like that does not improve their
chances of survival.
On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:28 PM, tjpa wrote:
On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
Not to be too delicate about it, but for any adolescent or adult
woman, something named iPad inspires, at best, discreet laughter.
(Not to mention a mental picture you'd rather not contemplate.)
Sorry about that, guys.
That's taking a long reach to find offense.
Do you refuse to use Window's Notepad? Or protest Office Depot's
sale of the same name item? Never bought a mouse pad? Do you recoil
in horror at keypads? Or refuse to touch a trackpad? Won't draw on
a graphics pad? Do you avert you eyes from NASA's launch pads?
Won't fly from a helipad? Eschew elbow and knee pads? Reject
jackets with shoulder pads? Won't play a drum pad? Never watch
Poker After Dark?
I don't believe it.
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