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So THIS is how Steve Jobs decided on the Apple iPad name

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, May 28th, 2010 at 11:57 AM


With all the possible names available for an iPhone OS-powered tablet device from Apple, we’ve often wondered why Steve Jobs would have picked the easily-made-fun-of “iPad” moniker for its “magical” tablet. Well, this new video shows exactly what went on behind closed doors to lead Jobs (in puppet form, of course) to settle on iPad as the namesake of his super thin, brushed aluminum, oversized iPod Touch. We had no idea Steve was in cahoots with the dark side. Although, it does make sense – what with all the success Apple has had over the past few years, it’s hard not to believe that Steve’s soul was signed over to the darker powers that be.

What’s funny is that the puppet version of Jobs makes reference to a tablet computer that was set to run on the full-fledged desktop version of Mac OS. Prior to the iPad launch, we were holding on to hopes that Apple would bring a tablet version of its MacBook Air into the fray to fight the netbook market back into submission. Alas, that never happened, and we’re left with the feature incomplete iPad.

If I sound bitter about the iPad still not being able to multi-task (without jailbreaking), print documents, or work with Google Docs, it’s because I am. That said, I use my iPad everyday for work and play. Ahh, the conflicted pleasures of using Apple products.

[Via: DailyMotion]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • 4DThinker

    It coulda happened that way. I thought Steve got the idea from me, changed it up a little so I wouldn’t sue him, then ran with it. See my post in March ’09 at macrumors.com: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=736990….

    Macrumors also has post dating back to 2000 that mention "iPad”.

    4DThinker

  • Dan McDougall

    Kind of bitter, perhaps???? You can multitask through apps, you can print through apps, and you can work with googledocs through apps – do some research, I do all of this with mine, and have faith that it's going to get better – and comparing the iPad as a large iPod Touch, is like comparing an olympic style swimming pool as a large bathtub – research what works, there's plenty of people who wil get their 15 seconds of fame attacking the media consumption and creation platform, but the staying power comes from real research, while trying to show us how we can make it better – those who are justified in their non-purchases, will then find something else they don't like… visit iamipad.blogspot.com for ideas, from someone who originally was not an apple fanboy, but has to admit, it's a pretty cool (and complete) machine….