At the time, Apple had been busy meeting with the heads of newspapers<\/a> and magazines all over the world. Would Steve drop the name to the heads of the publishing industry? I think so. At the very least this will get people to stop calling the Apple tablet the ‘iPad’. <\/p>\n Let me say this clearly: Apple would never name the tablet the ‘iPad’. It’s too similar to ‘iPod’. So, everyone, please<\/strong> stop<\/a> calling it<\/a> the iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you want to listen to an interesting talk about the future of digital publishing and distribution, check out the video of Keller’s speech below. If you want to jump to the ‘impending Apple slate’<\/em> mention, skip to 8:30.<\/p>\n IMHO, ‘iSlate’ is a great name, but I want to know what you<\/em> would call it. Tell us in the comments!<\/p>\n TUAW<\/a>iSlate.com and the ‘impending Apple slate’<\/a> originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a> on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read<\/a> | Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5cee0_islate.jpg\")
As we mentioned earlier<\/a>, MacRumors reported<\/a> that Apple apparently bought the islate.com domain name a few years back. This name isn’t so shocking when you remember the quote from New York Times executive editor Bill Keller at a meeting on October 26th about the future of digital content in the newspaper business: <\/p>\n\n
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