This is how closely gadget blogs follow Apple: a name change has triggered a truly hilarious amount of overanalysis.
For any other product, changing the next iteration’s name, from, say, the Game Boy 3 to the Game Boy HD would mostly get a chorus of groans and rolling eyes. With reason: it’s a tech cliche at this point. Everything is “HD.” Your mom’s phone is probably technically HD.
But other than a name change, it’s completely unchanged from reported technical specifications. Nonetheless, Gizmodo felt the need to update their report on the iPad not once, but twice. VentureBeat at least insists this disproves a few processor rumors, if those processor rumors are true and this name change is also true. CNet, meanwhile, is content to see who’s squatting on IpadHD.com, and trying to interview the guy who bought it two years ago.
In other words, Apple can make the name of their next product kind of awful and lame, and the press will treat it like Jesus himself has endorsed the iPad. Damn, but their marketing department is good.
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