As soon as I heard the name I thought of a sanitary pad. Maybe applied to the eye. Idiots!
Here’s another.
Once they run enough ads for it, the name won’t matter. The pseudo-intelligentsia will buy whatever Apple tells them to.
Yea I’ll say it’s terrible marketing. I hadn’t even heard of the thing until they announced the release. When I heard what it does… meh. I love Apple products, but I’ll pass.
It doesn’t have to be funny to be a marketing blunder. Sanitary napkin is the first thing I thought of, but, believe me, I didn’t think it was funny.
Of course, reading posts where people go on about how juvenile it is to laugh about it? Now I think it’s funny! But I didn’t before.
I’ve always said that juvenile humor would cease to be funny as soon as prudes get off their high horses. (And I’m not calling you a prude.)
What am I denying, exactly? You’re making stuff up now; it’s hard to keep up with your imagination.
Steve Jobs, I’m really happy for you, Ima let you finish, but Moses had the greatest tablet announcement of all time
The name is just one way to make fun of it.
I think the difference is that “ThinkPad” has a complete word in front of the “Pad”, while “iPad” has just a letter. So in the former case, the whole seems farther removed from “pad”, while in the latter case it’s quite close to “pad”.
I’m not defending anyone or anything, or trying to justify anyone or anything, just saying what I believe explains the difference between the two cases.
Wait for the turtleneck to come by and explain how the letter “i” is a virtually inexhaustible font of semiosis, in the context of Apple’s brand identity.
You are denying that the name is a marketing blunder. First you paint it as only the truly stupid would make the association in the first place, then you hedge your bets by claiming that even if the product does fail it can’t possibly be because of the name. So by definition the name isn’t a problem. That’s you denying reality.
That’s your story now? Just yesterday you said I was denying that people were associating the word “pad” with feminine hygeine products. Look, here’s your exact words:
So yesterday apparently I was denying the association. Obviously, of course, I wasn’t; I said it wasn’t FUNNY, and expressed doubt that it would make any different to the product’s success or lack thereof. I didn’t deny people were making the association - the thread would not exist were that the case.
Today, you are saying that I’m denying not that the association exists, but that it’s not a marketing blunder. Now you’re at least partially right. But you might change your story again, so I can’t necessarily count on you keeping it straight. When you figure out what it is you think I’m saying, let me know.