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At one point people were calling all tablets iPads - that's probably the one that had the biggest risk of genericization.
by dmurray 6y ago
At one point people were calling all tablets iPads - that's probably the one that had the biggest risk of genericization.
- paranoidrobot 6y agoTo a lot of people, there IS no difference between an iPad and a tablet. To a lesser degree, there's the same confusion about iPhones being a generic term for any smartphone.
- hoppla 6y agoAirport security do this - say iPad when they mean tablets. They also get upset when I leave my kindle in the backpack
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoAnd I have gotten scolded for pulling my kindle out to be scanned. You can't win with security people at the airport.
- nkrisc 6y agoAs I recall there was also an incident when Microsoft sponsored NFL broadcasts and gave the casters Surfaces and they still occasionally called them iPads.