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Apple tablet: Please don't call it 'iPad' (updated)

Summary: The absurd "iPad" has been registered with the Canadian trademark database and it's got all the signatures of a classic Apple conspiracy.

Jason D. O'Grady

By for The Apple Core |

Recent rumors suggest that Apple could use iPad as the name for it forthcoming tablet Mac, which is widely expected to be announced on January 27.

MacRumors uncovered a trademark application that was filed in Canada on January 15, 2010 by "IP Application Development LLC" for the the term "IPAD" (pictured). (The company name translates to the acronym "IPAD")

The company can't be tied directly to Apple but Google's never heard of them (other than for applying for this trademark) and the address on the trademark is used by Corporation Service Company which provides registered agent services for "nearly half of the Fortune 500." Apple used a dummy corporation called "Slate Computing, LLC" (also based in Wilmington, DE, natch) to apply for a Canadian trademark for "iPad" in July 2009

In July we took a stab at naming Apple's new tablet here at the The Apple Core and I thought that iPad was horrible then – and I haven't change my mind since. It's one step above iReam. In that same piece iTablet was summarily rejected for having too many syllables (although I think that iTab has some legs).

So where does that leave us? I'll take iSlate over iPad any day, but I'm hoping that Apple has something better up its sleeve (name-wise) for next week.

Post your best name for the Apple tablet in the TalkBack.

Update: Some have suggested Apple recycle the term "iBook" or "Newton" for the new device. Just throwing that into the mix.

Topics: Laptops, Apple, Hardware, Mobility, Tablets

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  • iBook?

    how about iBook?
    bannedfromzdnetagain
    Reply Vote

    • They already have a product called iBook.

      I know they do not make them any more, but naming 2 different products with the same name would be confusing.
      mrlinux
      Reply Vote

      • No, but . . .

        resurrecting a name they already own would be interesting (as long as they don't go for the fisher price/crayola color schemes again . . .).
        JLHenry
        Reply Vote

  • Change the game

    drop the iWhatever, and call it something like the Apple Freedom Tablet or Apple Anywhere.
    Real World
    Reply Vote

  • I don't mind "iPad".

    But I think they're going to name it something else,
    something more like MacPad...
    lostarchitect
    Reply Vote

  • RE: Apple tablet: Please don't call it 'iPad'

    Instead of MacPad, or your dreaded iPad, how about
    combining the two: Mac'siPad?

    Yuk, yuk!
    judegardner
    Reply Vote

    • That a bigger groaner than . . .

      Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' iZac (Newton . . .)
      JLHenry
      Reply Vote

    • more elegant

      just call it MaxiPod
      johndwhalen
      Reply Vote

  • RE: Apple tablet: Please don't call it 'iPad'

    I think they should call it iDoodle or iWrite
    Gina Farley
    ginajfarley
    Reply Vote

  • How about . . .

    . . . iBrick
    LadyGray
    Reply Vote

  • iSlate

    Personally, it's something original. Back when MP3 players started
    becoming popular, who would have though someone would title
    one an iPod? When "laptop personal computers" were a hit, where
    did "iBook" come from? iPad seems out there, yes, but...
    something about it just doesn't seem Apple to me. iSlate seems
    like a viable option, but Apparently Balmer has been up with the
    Apple rumors. (Of course, he has to know what he's gonna be run
    over by) by calling that HP Apple-copy-mockup thing the new "HP
    Slate PC". It could also be him running away from the fail that
    Tablet PCs turned out to be.
    Ktroje
    Reply Vote

  • RE: Apple tablet: Please don't call it 'iPad'

    Why not iTouch? It says what it is and makes it the big brother of the iPod Touch.
    Lazlo73
    Reply Vote

  • RE: Apple tablet: Please don't call it 'iPad'

    iFlop
    doodlius
    Reply Vote

  • RE: Apple tablet: Please don't call it 'iPad'

    some suggestions for the new product from Apple:
    1] IBook
    2] ILet
    3] IDome
    anup.future
    Reply Vote

  • RE: Apple tablet: Please don't call it 'iPad'

    Not the Newton, but the Einstein?
    jorlowitz@...
    Reply Vote

  • what's in a name?

    iOpus - a small complete work, a tiny book
    heptacableguy
    Reply Vote
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