I don't understand how their marketing department could have let them
>down so badly,
From Wikipedia, that well-known source of sometimes (not always)
misleading information:
Apple declared the 'i' in iMac to stand for "Internet"; it also represented
>the product's focus as a personal device ('i' for "individual").
We also have the Thinkpad, from IBM, a fine personal computing
device if a little dated. Nobody was thinking about feminine hygiene when
they named that bad boy. "Think" was IBM's motto.
i think Apple is just hung up on sticking an "i" in front of whatever they
make. Maybe they should have called it a "Macpad."
A new improved model could be called a "Maxipad."
:-)
From Wikipedia,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Constance Warner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?
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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