The name is not that nice to say but it does match the form factor and function of the device. I find it interesting how decades ago in Victorian times, classrooms would be full of these slates:
Then we moved through all the various writing implements and computer advances to basically end up with the same thing except digital.
Given that those were widely known as slates and Apple's convention dictates:
internet on your phone = iPhone
then:
internet on your slate = iSlate.
Not many people liked the sound of iphone before it came out either. I certainly didn't and I thought the idea of Apple making a phone was ridiculous given what I'd seen in the ipod. It all changed when the word had a positive association. Even the name Apple for a company is objectionable to me but the association of the word makes it more appealing.
What matters is what something is, not what it is called.
Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not an iSlate.
What's iSlate? it is not gesture, nor form, nor UI, nor any other part
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Then we moved through all the various writing implements and computer advances to basically end up with the same thing except digital.
Given that those were widely known as slates and Apple's convention dictates:
internet on your phone = iPhone
then:
internet on your slate = iSlate.
Not many people liked the sound of iphone before it came out either. I certainly didn't and I thought the idea of Apple making a phone was ridiculous given what I'd seen in the ipod. It all changed when the word had a positive association. Even the name Apple for a company is objectionable to me but the association of the word makes it more appealing.
What matters is what something is, not what it is called.
Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not an iSlate.
What's iSlate? it is not gesture, nor form, nor UI, nor any other part
Belonging to a slate. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So iSlate would, were it not iSlate call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which it owes
Without that title. iSlate, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all my money.