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addabox
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Join Date: May 2004
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2012-03-07, 20:35

I think "the new iPad" speaks to Apple's intentions for the platform. iPods and iPhones get the fun and iterative treatment (respectively)-- Classic, Nano, Shuffle for the iPod (and note that there is no primary iPod that the others take their name from, just a clutch of models) and 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, etc. for the iPhone, which makes sense since the phone market is so model driven.

The iPad is now in the same league as iMacs and PowerBooks-- it's just the latest version of the device, and it's up to us to differentiate (ala "unibody MacBooks", "cheese grate PowerMacs" etc). For our purposes this is clearly the HD iPad, but for Apple it's just the iPad. I predict that the only break with this naming convention going forward will be if there is a model released in tandem with "the" iPad that has some strongly differentiating characteristic, ala the MacBook Air. An iPad Pro, perhaps.

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