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Apes With Apps - Ape building a vocabulary of thousands of words with ipad

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He is using a Motorola Xoom and not a iPad.

That's because he's an ape.

"ipad," not "iPad." It's a generic term for a tablet.

Uh, no. "ipad" is an improperly formatted way of writing "iPad", a product by Apple. Tablet is a generic term.

Tablet is the generic name for tablet. iPad / ipad is an Apple registered trademark.

i'd better go xerox this then...

why, when you can look at it on your dynabook...

Thank you

I have this creepy feeling that this post is part of an attempt to attack the iPad trademark (trademarks can't be enforced if they come to refer to a type of product rather than a specific product produced by the trademark holder).

Of course, I have no evidence to support this theory, and I furthermore don't particularly care about the rights of IP holders. It just struck me as implausible that someone could really believe that "ipad" is a generic term for a tablet, and I wouldn't put it past corporate PR departments to engage in this sort of shenanigan.

I was about to add that I would have expected more from the IEEE, but then I looked, and they actually have an accurate title.

The word iPad doesn't appear anywhere in the article. Whomever retitled this, might want to consider reading the article first.

Isn't this whole "let's change the title" thing happening much more often?

I wonder if they could learn to code in scratch.

I know of literally thousands of specific apes (and have it on good authority that the actual number reaches into the billions) who have built vocabularies reaching the tens of thousands without the use of advanced technological aids.

In what way are you contributing to the dialogue here? This is an incredibly interesting topic and you do a disservice by not adding anything worthwhile.

Just that "ape" is a uselessly imprecise term for this sort of headline.

Not really. There are only a few great apes that people are familiar with, so the term "ape" is fairly precise. It's also alliterative.

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