by marrone12 12 hours ago
I remember sitting on my friend's couch drinking beer when they announced the iPad and debating if it was ever going to be popular. Time marches on.
I was working at Apple and wondering the same thing ;)
Turns out people like them. Not so much the HN crowd, but c’est la vie.
I remember the total uproar about the name! Everyone said it was too close to a Feminine hygiene product, or too close to iPod. Nobody's complaining any more.
It is too close to iPod imo, but they killed that line around the same time.