Enough about the Apple tablet/iSlate/iGuide/vaporware already
I refuse to believe I am the only person who has had enough of the constant speculation and guesswork being spouted about the as-yet-non-existent Apple tablet computer. It doesn’t yet exist, deal with it.
Apple very probably is making a tablet computer. And it is probably on the verge of officially announcing it. But until it does, just leave it well alone.
This week it’s been a round table guessing game about what it might be called. Apple owns lots of trademarks, and it just so happens that two of them sound like they could make good names for the Apple tablet. So it may be called the iSlate or the iGuide. But it may not. It may, in fact, be called the iDontExist or the iLoveSteveJobs.
I can’t think of any other company that would gain this much press for a product that doesn’t even exist yet. So I dread to think how much of the Web is going to devoted to discussing the damn thing when Apple finally deems us worthy of hearing about it.
Until then, it’s vaporware. So do me a favor and give it a rest.
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December 30th, 2009
awwww did someone get up on the wrong side of the bed today?
December 31st, 2009
Hi,
I’m the owner of http://www.iguide.travel, which is currently the top “iGuide” in the world. iGuide is an interactive travel guide, and we’re currently #1 in Google for the word iGuide, and get about 300,000 users a month.
What’s my opinion on the name? It’s not bad, though not great. I would of course love if Apple also used the name (my name!!) to help support my brand.
As to iguide.com, I tried to purchase the domain in January, but BuyDomains had asked for USD $250,000. It turns out iguide.com was actually sold for $100,000 this summer, to who knows who? And no, I could not afford that at that time either.
Anyhow, check out http://www.iguide.travel, its the real iGuide, and developed 100% on a MacBook.
Alex / iGuide