Do you like 'iSlate' for the name of an Apple Tablet?

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December 25, 2009
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Jared Mauch (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 12:49pm

Meh

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 12:55pm

Whoever keeps naming sh*t "i" should be slammed in the balls. It ain't CUTE anymore.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:13pm

what that guy said! No, seriously... I kinda like Slate, but only kinda...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:13pm

what that guy said! No, seriously... I kinda like Slate, but only kinda...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:15pm

what that guy said! No, seriously... I kinda like Slate, but really only kind of. iSlate is just not cool, it sounds like something Samsung or LG would think up.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 3:52pm

The i in iMac was for "internet."  The fact is, everything is internet enabled these days.  iPhone works, okay.  iPod is just kind of silly/stupid, even if it's ubiquitous now.  It's funny how people are even dropping "Pod" off the iPod Touch, and just calling it iTouch.  The "i" seems to be here to stay, even as I think it's time to accept that everything is i, and just dropped the insignia.  Personally, I think the iMac should be renamed Mac vs. MacPro OR what about Mac Desk or MacHome?  Just my $0.02

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 8:19pm

Happy it's not <anything>Tablet. I've kinda heard that word a bit too much. But who knows...

iAmOld (not verified) | December 26, 2009 - 12:33pm

What about Macintosh!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 26, 2009 - 3:29pm

Thank god you're not Apple's marketing department.  MacHome.  That's going to sell a lot of machines!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 26, 2009 - 7:57am

Slate in British English means to criticize severely. For that reason alone, the name is a non starter and couldn't be a global name.

Warren (not verified) | December 28, 2009 - 8:40am

Having an 'i' before everything is i-diotic.

Michael (not verified) | January 01, 2010 - 6:39pm

Naming things "i" would have been cool if Apple had trade marked it; but since every company now has an "i" gadget they should give it a rest.

Stenar (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 12:59pm

I like the name "Slate" but not iSlate...  or maybe (Apple)Slate with the Apple logo at the beginning rather than the word, like the AppleTV.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:04pm

The apple slate would be perfect. And the apple logo sitting in front would be perfect as well

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:03pm

I would like the name MacBook Slate better. iSlate doesn't flow as well. Well, not until Stevie J says it. lol

Adam (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:09pm

I feel like iPad is a good fit.. Kind of writes itself.

andrew. (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 3:01pm

if i could give you 1000 thumbs down for that comment it would not be enough. iPad is the stupidest name ive ever heard of. I can just think of it now, some NYT journalist sitting around picking his nose saying to himself "Yuchyuchyuch iPad would make sense because they name their other products with an 'i' like the iPod yuchyuchyuch" THEY ARENT GOING TO DO THAT DUMB F*#& that would be WAY TOO SIMILAR AND CONFUSE THE CONSUMER! :| so no. it isnt a good fit.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 7:50pm

LYAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 26, 2009 - 10:57am

iPad hahaha you're sarcasm rings true my friend

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:14pm

it'll be called iJobs

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:16pm

gotta stop the "i" everything... 

 

terry (not verified) | December 26, 2009 - 12:07pm

Nope:  It's going to be the Iris.  "Your looking glass to movies, books, the internet", et al.  

 

Keeps the i preface but with a twist.  Choppy, easy to say, easy to remember.   You'll see (pun intended) Jan 27.  

 

Iris will become a verb, too (as in, "I was irising for more than an eight hours yesterday before my battery ran out..." OR "he Irised while he was in class and got a detention..."); it will quickly be added to modern language dictionaries..

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:18pm

If they must put an "i" in front, how about the name iTab 

MacWolf (not verified) | January 06, 2010 - 5:42am

Tab in Northern England means cigarette, they wouldn't do that.

Luis Alejandro Masanti (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:21pm

I hope it is not "iSlate"!

If it is an eReader... it could be called iBook. Apple alreafy holds the trademark.

pangit (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 2:50pm

genius. the return of the iBook! they MUST use that name!

tethernaut (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:24pm

c'mon, everybody likes pie

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 3:53pm

 Pie sounds dumb!

Darkfire | December 25, 2009 - 1:28pm

MacTablet all the way.

rogerdodger (not verified) | December 25, 2009 - 1:31pm

if a Mac......But it's clear that thing will not be a "mac" but the evolution of Apple multitouch. So no-sense into call it "mac".