“Apple-centric blogs, notably MacRumors, have sniffed out that Apple may-have-possibly acquired the domain name islate.com. While typing the URL into a browser yields only a ‘Page Load Error,’ MacRumors apparently dug into the domain name registrant history for the site and found that, in late 2007, Apple Inc. was indeed the Registrant of record for the site,” Kolakowski reports. “The name ‘iSlate’ itself, according to TechCrunch, was registered as a trademark three years ago; according to the blog, the company doing the registering, Slate Computing, could possibly be an Apple dummy corporation.”
Kolakowski reports, “Additionally fueling the rumors over the weekend was a report in the Financial Times blog, widely disseminated, which quoted unnamed inside sources as saying that Apple had rented the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, for several days near the end of January. A ‘major product announcement’ would be made on that stage come Jan. 26, the sources suggested.”
Full article here.
If this comes to fruition, it will the worst kept secret ever….
eWeek is late with this so they’re just commenting on the news, putting a food spin on the lead. The holiday blues are hard to shake.
The word slate is heavy-sounding and I believe Apple bought up the site and its name to keep it off the table, or tablet as it were.
Not really, the G4 iMac was the worst kept secret after it made the cover of Time Canada.
iTablet is a bit passé but sounds less quirky than the recent iSlate eclipse… hope there will be a different name for this ‘rumored’ digital companion.
Question: Wouldn’t this be a Macworld worthy (and appropriate) announcement?
Anywho, I would prefer a tabletized MBA over a bloated iPhone.
just my $0.02
Forgot about that G4 iMac
I’d buy an “iPod slate” but not an iSlate. Yuck.
I like iDevice, because this will be the one and only device 90% of the world needs for their computing needs.
I don’t like any of the names proposed so far. They should call the tablet MacinTouch. Seems very close to Macintosh, but is still distinguishable from Macs and iPod Touches, it has the word Mac and Touch in it, and flows easily off the tongue. Seems stylish. What do you guys think?
I dunno’, I prefer names of Apple products wherein iPod Touch becomes ubiquitous as Touch.
One syllable names catch on quickly. Tablet has two. Slate is one, but again it makes me think Etch a Sketch or to quote Oxford: a flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used esp. for an inscription.
iPad is good, but Mac Pad is better especially if it runs OS X and is capable of emulating iPhone OS.
If that were the case then I would begin a whole new series of Apple tablet products and peripherals using the lower-case “m” to precede any products developed in this vein, denoting either Macintosh or Mobile.
mPad, mDock, mBuds, mCharge, mApp, mPod, mStream, mDrive
HiHF™
iSlate is a horrible name. i still like iBook best.
iSlate, or any name, will fit like a glove just as soon as the product succeeds.
I always remember something I heard about naming a rock band:
Q: What’s a great name for a successful rock band?
A: The name of a successful rock band.
Meaning that once associated with greatness, the name sounds great.
For me iBook sounds good and would be a great resurrection but if ‘book’ is deemed too specific (though Macbook is hardly a book) then iPad would be great… except that someone raised the terrible possibility that it would become associated with the idea of virtual women’s sanitary products. Too big a risk? Actually Slate and slate computing sounds pretty good but iSlate would take some time to sound right if ever I feel. Difficult one.
The Apple Pad
Apple Slate iSlate is just a redirect
Apple Touch Display ( could replace Cinema Display )
Apple iPod Slate ( only if it’s limited to NOT running OS X apps… which would suck )
Apple Pod
Or… how about
MacBook Touch
OMG enough with the “iSlate” name! That’s even too lame for Misro$oft!
You guys that like iBook are really really kind of simple. Apple has already produced a device named iBook and most of them are still in service.
You think it is a tablet and you insist it must start with i. What a bunch of mindless sheep. So original your thoughts. Wow!
And mark these words, this will be the biggest pump and dump on AAPL stock yet and it is being caused by the Apple fan boys, the lemmings, the majority of readers of this forum are in the group. You are shooting yourselves in the foot with your selfish desire and mindless approach.
iSlate is a red herring…name is disgusting, obinimable.
MacBook Touch has been suggested for months and that would be logical if the device runs SL along with the iPhone OS in flip mode like front row/dashboard/fast user switching etc. or it could be the other way around
primarily the iPhone OS with access to SL through a dedicated app?
gaming is the trojan horse.
whatever they end up calling it , the device will be the peanut butter to the TV’s jelly
a multimedia device the rocks the industry
again
maybe they break convention and go withTHX1138. Ha.
ISlate is a very good name. I hope it’s used eventually.
I know how folks like the iCaled quotes.
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How about a list of articles’ creative opening lines? You have two good ones today.
“Like a soufflé puffing on hot air, rumors of an Apple tablet continued to rise over the long holiday weekend, buoyed by absolutely no official comment from the company itself over whether it intended to produce such a multi-touch device in 2010,” Nicholas Kolakowski
“Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it,” Martin Peers
Actually, apple should call it the Monolith. Because it will look just like the one in 2001 a space odyssey.
I choose to believe “iSlate”‘s a clever ruse and it’s actually called the iTab. Because seriously, iSlate? What language does a person have to grow up speaking where that just rolls off their tongue?
TouchMe
or
MeTouch
Wouldn’t it be grand if Apple had no plans for any such tablet, yet because of growing public pressure, has recently decided to cook one up.