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What's in a name? This is what Steve Jobs and his marketing team seems to have thought before they came up with the name for their latest tablet PC-iPad. I mean Apple should admit, iPad does sound like a High-tech Sanitary Pad. Within minutes of the name being announced it started drawing sneers and jeers from the blogosphere and social networking sites- mostly from female pundits.
Here are my favourites from Twitter:
Tagline for iPad-Internet. Period.
Does the iPad come with wings?
Marketing Promotion of 2010 - 1 year's free iPill with every purchase of iPad.
I-pad sounds like a confession to me... I-pad A LOT...
"About the iPad. Is it just for my light flow days?"
A Los Angeles Times' tech blog asked: Yes, the iPad is small, lightweight and slim. But can you swim with it? Another cynic commented-I hate it too. Period. A woman blogger suggested that Steve Jobs' marketing gurus should've consulted women a bit more. Seattle Post-Intelligencer writer asked- But how many times do you say 'Hand me that pad' and not, you know, blush a little?
And as I sit writing this- two colleagues have already come to me asking- iPad? Really? But I must admit I am loving these jokes--keep them coming, folks. Keep them coming. iLove!
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Rati Chaudhary is a Principal Correspondent at CNN-IBN. After covering Science and Technology for six years she recently moved to the Citizen Journalist show. She likes the show as it helps her meet interesting people and also helps build some good karma. Believe it or not but Rati loves mathematics so much that she even graduated in the subject. A voracious reader and a total gadget freak, Rati can spend hours on a new gadget. If she is not at work, she will either be in the gym or watching a movie. Say ‘shopping’ and you will have her undivided attention.Recent Posts
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