Re: Maybe "AS/400" name will again become the official name foroursystem!

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah...you know he's not there anymore, right?

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At the end of the day, I won't buy an Apple product. I was there back in the
> S/38 days, and Jobs was a jerk.
>
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> foroursystem!
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> Paul Nelson,
> <grin> no one can improve on a great name like "AS/400" or "iPad".
> Eric
> See
> http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/07/tech/mobile/apple-new-ipad-name/index.html
> ?hpt=hp_t2
>
> Why doesn't the 'new iPad' have a name?  . . .
> Question was on everyone's lips: So, what do we call this thing? . . .
> The answer, according to an Apple spokesman: "It's just 'iPad.' It's
> what it is." . . .
> Or it is what it isn't. It's not the iPad 3, and it's not the iPad HD. .
> .
>
> The longer Apple execs talked about the tablet computer's new features
> -- better screen, faster connection -- without actually giving it a
> name, the more anxious the People of the Internet became. . .
>
> "Come on Apple, name it already," one person wrote.
> "Is it an Anonymous iPad?" asked another. . . Perhaps this naming
> convention -- sticking with a singular product name without numbers or
> the names of cats to follow it -- isn't entirely new for Apple. One
> journalist pointed out that the iPod follows the same tack.
>  . . . It probably would take more than a name snafu to change that.
>
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