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the other day (it was tuesday) i was telling someone about my master plan to buy an iphone.
(a plan, by the w, which is about to come to fruition. this is a big deal. i have thought long and hard and practically and analytically about the switcheroo and i feel very confident in my decision. like, probably more confident than i feel about a lot of my decisions. not to mention my head might explode at the prospect of celebrity gossip at my fingertips at all times!)
anyway, back to tuesday. this someone told me i should hold off because, the word on the street was that the next day (that would be wednesday), apple was going to unveil a tablet computer and i might want that instead.
i told him he was probably wrong.
but in a nice way of course.
(because tablet computers. what is the point? more on this soon.)
then later that night (it was still tuesday) jaron and i were eating indian food that was way too spicy (for me) when his roommate came bounding into the kitchen and said we were never going to believe it but big news! apple was going to unveil a tablet computer tomorrow! (that would be wednesday.)
and i said, tell me something i don't know, buddy. and it felt totally awesome because i never know about stuff like this before people who actually care about stuff like this, but this time i did. (which actually makes me think it wasn't so much big, secret news at all.)
and then apple did unveil a tablet computer on wednesday (which was, that's right, yesterday).
and they named it... the iPad?
worst.name.ever.
i mean, i don't think i need to articulate what that name makes just about everyone think of. especially not when this madTV clip does it so well. (warning: that clip definitely references the vajayjay.)
seriously. are there no women on the apple marketing team?
and now i'll just go ahead and ask the big question, which is: what is the point of a tablet computer anyway? do we really need something between a laptop and a phone? really?
my current answer is no, but i also said i would never need an iphone (i mean who wants to be connected to the internet all the time?) (i do, i do!) so i'm probably wrong about the iPad, too.
though i am definitely not wrong about the name. awful now and awful forever. and that's all i have to say about that.
3 comments:
I 100% agree with you. I was so turned off by the name. The iSlate would have been better. This was a sad day for Apple.
I'm chuckling (just a little bit) seeing that your post about the iPad made an appearance on your blog before an emotionally charged post about the SOTU address.
same immediate reaction to the name. Same. Gross.
Ps. my word verification is Creelene which I find delightful as I have a deep and abiding love for names ending in LENE and this one never occured to me. I think I just spelled occurred wrong.
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