We're invited to Apple's "latest creation." One is grateful for the lower-case 'c.'
The New Creation is widely expected to be a tablet style computing device. And lots of guesses are being put forward as a name: iTablet, iSlate, iPad.
Talk about lame. Talk about unCreative.
Surely we can come up with a name that better reflects hope and change and coolness!
My suggestions...
iWhat: Think Zen. People are going to ask "what is that?" The question becomes the answer!
iOh: A version of "I/O" for input/output. But I/O for the new millenium. Ohhhhhh.
Eyei: Piratical, edgey, Johnny Deppish.
iPill: Be honest: the whole hyperhype is hard to swallow. Tablet...pill, get it?
iSlab: Be countercultural, industrial, muscular, surly. Let them eat biscotti.
iStroke: Take touch to the next level.
iLick: ReCreating the computer interface.
iLleluia: We have beheld and held the Glory.
iWoz: Homage to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
iEgo: Homage to the other Apple co-founder and current CEO.
iCon: The result of brilliant marketing.
iNerd: It's all about me. And tech. And stuff.
iKnow: Appeal to your inner smugness.
So what would YOU call it?
This story, "Apple Tablet Needs a Name Cooler Than iTablet, iSlate" was originally published by Network World.