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January 26th, 2010, 09:50
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With all the recent talk about the iSlate (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/apples-islate-and-other-rumors-that-have-given-its-stock-a-ho/), iPad (http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/25/is-this-the-ipad/), iSlab, whatever... doesn't it seem like the obvious candidate for the name of Apple's rumored tablet computer is being completely overlooked? Like Apple's first phone that later came to be called the iPhone, isn't the most obvious name for an Apple tablet the iTablet? To support the theory we decided to share the above image that we received from a trusted source and believe to be authentic. It's a picture taken of an Apple Store employee's corporate email after receiving information about the time and place of Wednesday's Apple event. While the content of the email wasn't very enlightening, note the word used in the filename of the second attachment: "itablet." Now this doesn't prove a thing. The administrative assistant who sent the mass email could have been using "itablet' much in the same way that we've been using the term for years (http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/26/here-we-go-again-mac-tablet-claimed-for-mid-2007-launch/) as a generic placeholder for the rumored device. Then again, maybe we should heed the wisdom of Occam's Razor when speculating about Apple's naming preference for a 10-inch tablet computer?
P.S. Amtek (http://www.engadget.com/tag/amtek) currently holds the US trademark for "iTablet" and continues to sell products under that name as it has for (http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/18/amtek-intros-the-itablet-t221-umpc/) years (http://www.engadget.com/photos/hands-on-with-amteks-itablet-t221). Not that a silly thing like trademark ownership could stop Apple from announcing its iPhone at a time whenCisco owned the rights (http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/apple-and-cisco-settle/).Apple iTablet: the obvious name? (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/apple-itablet-the-obvious-name/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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With all the recent talk about the iSlate (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/26/apples-islate-and-other-rumors-that-have-given-its-stock-a-ho/), iPad (http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/25/is-this-the-ipad/), iSlab, whatever... doesn't it seem like the obvious candidate for the name of Apple's rumored tablet computer is being completely overlooked? Like Apple's first phone that later came to be called the iPhone, isn't the most obvious name for an Apple tablet the iTablet? To support the theory we decided to share the above image that we received from a trusted source and believe to be authentic. It's a picture taken of an Apple Store employee's corporate email after receiving information about the time and place of Wednesday's Apple event. While the content of the email wasn't very enlightening, note the word used in the filename of the second attachment: "itablet." Now this doesn't prove a thing. The administrative assistant who sent the mass email could have been using "itablet' much in the same way that we've been using the term for years (http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/26/here-we-go-again-mac-tablet-claimed-for-mid-2007-launch/) as a generic placeholder for the rumored device. Then again, maybe we should heed the wisdom of Occam's Razor when speculating about Apple's naming preference for a 10-inch tablet computer?
P.S. Amtek (http://www.engadget.com/tag/amtek) currently holds the US trademark for "iTablet" and continues to sell products under that name as it has for (http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/18/amtek-intros-the-itablet-t221-umpc/) years (http://www.engadget.com/photos/hands-on-with-amteks-itablet-t221). Not that a silly thing like trademark ownership could stop Apple from announcing its iPhone at a time whenCisco owned the rights (http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/apple-and-cisco-settle/).Apple iTablet: the obvious name? (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/apple-itablet-the-obvious-name/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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