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One Last Slate Prediction

2010.01.22 19:18

Magic.

I don’t mean how it looks or how it works, I mean the name. Apple introduced the iPhone multi-touch interface by saying — the very first bullet point — “it works like magic”. Recently, we got the multi-touch Magic Mouse.

So how about a Magic Slate, or Magic Tablet, or Magic Board, or Magic Plate, or Magic Panel, or Magic Pad?

It’d also be a nice throwback to Magic Cap, an early PDA system whose development involved iPod creator Tony Fadell and WebKit/Safari engineering manager Darin Adler. Magic Cap was of course also run by General Magic, founded by Apple/original Macintosh alumni like Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld.

Comments

  1. I don’t see it happening for one reason: Apple prefers one word, or FamilyName SubFamily type naming. Magic doesn’t work because the mouse and the tablet are too unrelated to be similar product lines.

    Of course, since I bothered to weight in, it’ll probably go just as you say. The perils of prediction.

    By Phil Nelson · 2010.01.23 01:09

  2. You mean the same way the iMac (or, hell, iDVD) and the iPhone are too unrelated?

    By Jesper · 2010.01.23 01:15

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