I don't get the big deal about the name. What makes a person who is perfectly fine with words like "mousepad," "launchpad," "lilypad" or "notepad" turn into a snickering, babbling dipshit when they hear the word "iPad?"
If a joke is that obvious, then you're not being funny by saying it anyway. Come up with better iPad material or STFU already.
I wonder how well the Fujitsu iPad has been selling?
And how well it continues to sell today with an eight year head-start?
The IPad sells very well today. It is not a consumer product though. It is designed for retail as an extension of Point of Sale systems. Can be used as a mobile POS terminal, Inventory, Receinving, Remote manager authorizations, que buster.
Apple should simply rename the thing the Apple Tablet.
They won't rename it, but that would have been the name I'd have gone with. As we know now it's not exactly a Mac, I would have called it the (apple) Tablet.
Apple doesn't own 'i-stuff' any more than anybody owns 'e-stuff' or '@-stuff.' You can't trademark a letter, or a number. Look at Intel and the 586. They realized in order to have a defendable name, it had to be something new. They went with Pentium.
It was more complicated than that. It also mostly had to do with licensing the IP to other manufacturers, which IBM forced them to do when they (Intel) were in danger of shutting down, and IBM was interested in having a continuing source of x86 chips for its machines.
After Intel got back on its feet, it found that it was stuck with the licensing. By going to "Pentium" they managed to claim the the new chip line was so different from the previous line that the licenses were no longer valid. As they had signed somewhat different licenses with AMD which didn't contain the name "x86" in it, AMD was able to continue licensing.
It's a totally different product selling into a totally different customer base. Both companies may be allowed to use it.
The intent of trademarks is to prevent confusion. When two products have the same name, it may confuse. But if they are different enough, and the customer is expected to have no problem distinguishing between them, the courts usually rule that both can retain the name.
I doubt here, that the intended customer bases would mistake one for the other.
The only reason one would give up, if they did, was because spending on the case would cost more than the trademark is worth.
I'd agree, but using that name to sell it to consumers may have people thinking that's it's just an ebook reader. Also, there was already an Apple iBook.
I just don't understand why they don't resurrect Newton. I think it is fun how they play off the Apple name the same way they did with Macintosh. Why do they keep using "i" in everything? Everyone knows that all devices connect to the internet these so why do we keep needing to be reminded of that? I am really hoping that the iPad name gets blocked for them like the iTV name got blocked (which later became Apple TV.)
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If a joke is that obvious, then you're not being funny by saying it anyway. Come up with better iPad material or STFU already.
I wonder how well the Fujitsu iPad has been selling?
And how well it continues to sell today with an eight year head-start?
The IPad sells very well today. It is not a consumer product though. It is designed for retail as an extension of Point of Sale systems. Can be used as a mobile POS terminal, Inventory, Receinving, Remote manager authorizations, que buster.
Apple should simply rename the thing the Apple Tablet.
They won't rename it, but that would have been the name I'd have gone with. As we know now it's not exactly a Mac, I would have called it the (apple) Tablet.
Apple doesn't own 'i-stuff' any more than anybody owns 'e-stuff' or '@-stuff.' You can't trademark a letter, or a number. Look at Intel and the 586. They realized in order to have a defendable name, it had to be something new. They went with Pentium.
It was more complicated than that. It also mostly had to do with licensing the IP to other manufacturers, which IBM forced them to do when they (Intel) were in danger of shutting down, and IBM was interested in having a continuing source of x86 chips for its machines.
After Intel got back on its feet, it found that it was stuck with the licensing. By going to "Pentium" they managed to claim the the new chip line was so different from the previous line that the licenses were no longer valid. As they had signed somewhat different licenses with AMD which didn't contain the name "x86" in it, AMD was able to continue licensing.
The intent of trademarks is to prevent confusion. When two products have the same name, it may confuse. But if they are different enough, and the customer is expected to have no problem distinguishing between them, the courts usually rule that both can retain the name.
I doubt here, that the intended customer bases would mistake one for the other.
The only reason one would give up, if they did, was because spending on the case would cost more than the trademark is worth.
Ditto. The name sucks. I like iBook (why not?).
I'd agree, but using that name to sell it to consumers may have people thinking that's it's just an ebook reader. Also, there was already an Apple iBook.
Apple could have called it the iTampon and Id still buy it. It looks like an amazing device. Has it been 60 days yet?
yes, get back in line it's almost your turn!
you'll probably get sue by anyone who ever use a
feminine sanitary pad ,could be sanitary towel ,maxi pad,menstrual pad
ever since using the" I" in the new apple products
apple is thinking way beyond the box
If they have to rename it how about KA-PAD as in Kick-Ass Pad!
or, if they are annoyed by Fuji's claim, they could call it the FU PAD SU or TAB-LET-SU.
I hope Apple loses, as the name stinks.
Yeah, not too thrilled with the name also...
Should of called it "The KneePad"! Keep laptop moniker for MBP but for new genre "tablet" call it, The KneePad...
Ditto. The name sucks. I like iBook (why not?).
Books fold, we've been through this. The MacBook hardware physically folds, that's why the nomenclature "book" makes sense.