What's in a name? .. ipad

Shakespeare said "whats in a name..". Apple seems to be taking it seriously.

Yesterday when the "Applet tablet event live" was going on, there was more discussion on the naming than on the specs. My view is rather than going with their old nomenclature of iMac/iPod, they should have gone with iPhone like naming and called it iSlate. I hope they still change it before it becomes a total confusion in day to day life for women.

I think this is a big shame on apple that their most awaited launch since iPhone has been totally dumped by the audience. Out of 100s of tweets that I followed while the event was on, there were hardly any tweets on new features. Most people called it a magnified iPod Touch, some called it large iPhone without calling features.

The most important missing features was camera for video conferencing. If they have put iWork on it, do they expect the person to carry another device for video conferencing? I think there has been a major downgrade in the feature list by apple to take into consideration the business limitations of not conflicting with iPhone.

This likely being the last big launch of apple under Steve Jobs, I had expected much better.

The only real surprise for almost everyone was price, lets see if the price alone can sell this. Never underestimate the power of apple fan following.