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Apple iPad is old news…shown in 2006



In the past, MADTV did a sketch on their semi-popular TV show that featured various comedians. This show did a parody on Apple products and their incessant need to label everything i____ whatever.

Needless to say, it looks like Apple’s lack of creativity in naming might bite them back in the butt. Why might you ask? Because the iPad that MADTV did a sketch about was neither a pad you write on, nor a pad you watch anything on. This is a pad that is commonly associated with feminine products. So, we’re not quite sure if Apple was aware of this interesting naming convention… but we found the fact that Apple decided to name this product the iPad to be a very poor choice considering the current circumstances. They would have been much better off just calling it the iTablet, not that it’s any more creative… just a safer name.

Here is the video we’re talking about. Clearly an Apple product and clearly mocking them… I guess Apple enjoys feed off of the mockery and then magnifying it even more once they release a product with the very same name. I’m sure the writers at MADTV thought that their ludicrous name would never have been adopted within Apple, they thought wrong. The writers at MADTV are in fact oracles of apple product names to come…

Nevertheless, if you’d like a more detailed explanation about the iPad you can check out our analysis of the internal hardware and more specifically the A4 chip that drives the tablet.

If you are in the mood to discover the name of a mysterious product that Apple will launch within next three years, try MacBook Wheel.


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Comments:

by: Anonymous on 2/10/2010
"Oh. OK, I came to this site because of the "news" about the custom ARM silicon in the iPad, but just this spot check indicates it's run by twelve year olds. Which is fine, just won't be back, and I'll spread the word."

Ditto.

It's also worth noting that the author (Anshel) has a vested interested on being biased. I wonder who's paying him/her.

See you next time. NOT.
by: Anshel Sag on 1/28/2010
This story is a compliment to the original news of the iPad release. Its fairly funny and true. If we cannot bring humor to our site, and we take ourselves too seriously then we can never consider ourselves connected with our readers.

Many of our readers on facebook and twitter enjoyed the article, its unfortunate that you did not enjoy the comedy and irony of the situation.
Nothing to be sorry about by: Theo Valich on 1/28/2010
Anshel, and dear respectable readers,

Our site offered not just the coverage of iPad launch, but also disclosed the architecture and yes, we do find it funny that after all the rumors about iSlate [AAPL even went as far as registering iSlate domain], the company named a product that:

a) is a trademark by Fujitsu
b) was featured in a spoof video by Mad.TV.

So no, we do not have anything to apologize for.

P.S. True, our youngest member is serving as an intern and she's 14 years of age, but the oldest members are 66 years of age and we're predominately consisted out of older crowd.

Ed.
by: Anonymous on 1/28/2010
Oh. OK, I came to this site because of the "news" about the custom ARM silicon in the iPad, but just this spot check indicates it's run by twelve year olds. Which is fine, just won't be back, and I'll spread the word.
current circumstances? by: Anonymous on 1/28/2010
The name of your article says MADTV's 'naming 'convention' was over three years ago. It was a memorable fake ad skit to fanboys, and I do mean boys, but now that we've grown, wasn't it ancient history?
epic by: vadim on 1/28/2010
you guys are good to have found this - just in time!
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