AdRants has a bit of fun with Apple’s choice of name for its latest rapture-of-the-nerds tech device:
Apple Introduces New Feminine Protection Product: The iPad
According to an explosion of tweets following Steve Jobs’ announcement of the iPad, the device’s new name isn’t going over so well:
– For now the iPad’s really exciting, but wait until they release the iTampon
– iPad: You only need to plug it in once a month
– Wow – its the iPad. Wonder if it comes in 2 sizes (maxi and mini)
– I guess it’s Apple’s “time of the month”
– The Apple iPad: for all your heavy (work) flow days
– Our little iPod has hit womanhood
– To recap: the iPad will come with an iRag (to keep it clean) + some iBruprofen (to keep it working smoothly) + iWings (protection plan)
H/T to Virginia Postrel, who wrote “And so the jokes begin…Apple needs more female marketers”.
Update: Francis Turner sent a link to the official announcement photo.
More serious coverage of the new product from The Register.
