Dec 25
MacRumors has found that a Delaware-based company, Slate Computing, LLC, founded recently in November 2006, owns the trademark “iSlate”. Now, it turns out that the signatory of said trademark is Apple’s Senior Trademark Specialist Regina Porter. Add the fact that Apple also owns the “iSlate” trademark in Europe, and that it has historically used other companies or shells to acquire trademarks as it did with the iPhone trademark… and could it be? Is “iSlate” the name of the new Apple tablet? It’s impossible to say at this point but all indications certainly suggest an interest in the trademark by Apple although for what purpose is not clear yet. With a major annoucement expected in January, we may all know with certainty soon enough!!
Tagged with: iPhone • iSlate • name • trademark
Dec 09
Off of Reuters, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Yair Reiner reports that Apple’s supply chain has begun to indicate that manufacturing of the new tablet has begun. Additionally, greater insight has been gained into what is atleast one of the ways in which Jobs plans to market the device, currently rumored to be named “iSlate”:
“Contacts in the US tell us Apple is approaching book publishers with a very attractive proposal for distributing their content… Apple will split revenue 30/70 (Apple/publisher); give the same deal to all comers; and not request exclusivity. We believe the typical Kindle/publisher split is 50/50, rising to 30/70 if Kindle is given ebook exclusivity.”
This confirms an earlier post by a Gizmodo writer who had reported:
“Two people related to the NYTimes have separately told me that in June, [they were] approached by Apple to talk about putting the paper on a ‘new device’.”
This could all spell trouble for Amazon’s Kindle.
Tagged with: iSlate • Kindle • manufacturing • publishing • supply chain
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