Apple iTablet: the obvious name? & More Photos Of Apple iPad Leaked ?
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With all the recent talk about the iSlate, iPad, iSlab, whatever... doesn't it seem like the obvious candidate for the name of Apple's rumored tablet computer is being completely overlooked? Like Apple's first phone that later came to be called the iPhone, isn't the most obvious name for an Apple tablet the iTablet? To support the theory we decided to share the above image that we received from a trusted source and believe to be authentic. It's a picture taken of an Apple Store employee's corporate email after receiving information about the time and place of Wednesday's Apple event. While the content of the email wasn't very enlightening, note the word used in the filename of the second attachment: "itablet." Now this doesn't prove a thing. The administrative assistant who sent the mass email could have been using "itablet' much in the same way that we've been using the term for years as a generic placeholder for the rumored device. Then again, maybe we should heed the wisdom of Occam's Razor when speculating about Apple's naming preference for a 10-inch tablet computer?
P.S. Amtek currently holds the US trademark (and itablet.com domain) for "iTablet" and continues to sell products under that name as it has for years. Not that a silly thing like trademark ownership could stop Apple from announcing its iPhone at a time when Cisco owned the rights.
Update: Looks like the attached image name above, while authentic, likely originated in a post from Pocket-lint (look at the properties). For what it's worth, the invite image we received was embedded with a name "top.jpg." Regardless, this is probably not Apple revealing its product name in a sloppy pre-event slip-up. [Thanks, MarkNewby]
Apple iPad rumor roundup: photos, pricing & developer support
With the countdown well underway to Wednesday’s Apple iPad tablet event – which SlashGear will be liveblogging – it only seems right to look at the latest bunch of rumors. Shiniest are these new supposedly-leaked images of the iPad in the wild; designer Dustin Curtis reckons a friend of his sent them to him with no further information. Meanwhile a Germany retailer prematurely tweeted its thoughts on the iPad pricing, for both carrier-subsidized and contract-free models.
We reckon Curtis’ “leaks” are fake, if only because he’s a reasonably well known designer and has already shown his skills in previous mock-ups (though not, admittedly, of the iPad). Still, it gives the surging crowd something to discuss, and anything that occupies the time between now and 10am PST tomorrow has to be a good thing.
As for the pricing leak, according to German retailer Media Markt the Apple iPad will land on T-Mobile come March 1st. They reckon the touchscreen wonder will cost €499 ($703) if you buy it with a data contract or a whopping €899 ($1,266) if you don’t want to commit to that. Now those dollar prices are direct currency exchanges, which never really work out going from European to US prices, but even so – that’s an expensive machine.
Finally, despite the tablet being – at this point – all smoke, mirrors and rumor, that hasn’t stopped companies from jumping on board and attempting to pre-emptively coax developers into the fold. Appcelerator surveyed its registered developers and discovered 90-percent intend to develop for the iPad tablet, despite the fact we don’t even know if it exists yet.
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