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How do you reference your iPad to friends/family

I bought one for my mother and girlfriend so compared to how smug my mother is about it, just calling it my iPad doesn't bother me as much anymore.
 
I call it my iPad, the missus has dubbed it "Kirby" - because, like Kirby, it's small and cute with soft, rounded edges.
 
Ok with great fear of being ridiculed, my fiancé jokingly refurs to it as my baby.

"Where did you leave the baby this time?"

"Is it really nessacy for you to have the baby in the bathroom"

"Would you please put the baby down and come help me with this?"

Clearly we don't have kids but for the first couple of weeks after I got it I was practically inseparable from it and I am really funny about people with dirty hands touching it. The joke is that one could not care better for a child than I do my iPad. I have to admit some times when I get home and it's not where I left it I might say "Where's the baby" but alway the iPad in public :p
 
vastoholic said:
Great response. I agree. I just realized I do this with my actual mac's.

As for educating my family on it, I'm one of the few geeky techie ones anyway. None of them want or have a need for it. My dad had fun with it when he came to visit me from Oklahoma. He just wanted to check his email and their flight schedules. But he's a farmer and doesn't have the time for one really (plus 3G coverage is pretty non-existent out in the fields).

Most of my friends are pretty much anti-apple anyway, so I try not to bring it up because I hate those types of conversations.

I just keep thinking about this youtube parody of two guys making a fake commercial for the iPhone (Hey, I'm just watching movies on my Apple iPhone by Apple!)
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Doesn't he have wifi? I've never been to a part in okalahoma that cannot get some type of high speed Internet. I got my dad one and he loves it. He's a pastor who is anti tech, but he does everything on it without having to worry about making sure his antivirus is always updated.
 
scubasteve03 said:
Doesn't he have wifi? I've never been to a part in okalahoma that cannot get some type of high speed Internet. I got my dad one and he loves it. He's a pastor who is anti tech, but he does everything on it without having to worry about making sure his antivirus is always updated.
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No, because he travels from Bartlesville where their house is (my mom was transferred there with Conoco) and he stays in a trailer home on my grandparents homestead.
 
We actually call the iPad the Miaow Miaow....

As my two year old sons first reaction was to call it this after we installed the Animals first words app.

And the name has just stuck...

So we get pass me the Miaow Miaow.....

:)
 
aimee25 said:
Ok with great fear of being ridiculed, my fiancé jokingly refurs to it as my baby.

"Where did you leave the baby this time?"

"Is it really nessacy for you to have the baby in the bathroom"

"Would you please put the baby down and come help me with this?"

Clearly we don't have kids but for the first couple of weeks after I got it I was practically inseparable from it and I am really funny about people with dirty hands touching it. The joke is that one could not care better for a child than I do my iPad. I have to admit some times when I get home and it's not where I left it I might say "Where's the baby" but alway the iPad in public :p
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My girlfriend wanted to use my iPad for a second because her's was on the charger and I told her to go wash her hands first before she put a finger on mine. :D
 
Reddkryten said:
What about dropping the name? I just say "Let me look that up" and then pull out the iPad. Because really the focus should be on the information that is being looked up, not the medium on which it is being delivered.
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That's generally what I say. I can't ever remember saying I would look it up on my computer.
 
I smugly call it an ipad any chance i get, and then also try to adjust my indoor sunglasses and make a reference to my BMW as well.

eg.

"Let me get my iPad, and reference that on my iPad. (adjusts sunglasses) Wow, imagine what it must be like to be poor and have no iPad? Just like being middle class enough not to have a BMW... lol.. time to get in my BMW with my iPad"
 
Seems like a strange question to me. But I always just say iPad. No big deal. But then again, I'm 59 years old and really could care less about what people think about me and what computers I use.
 
I guess I don't really reference devices.

It would be "hang on, let me check.."
 
I call mine the iDouche. Draw your own conclusions but my girlfriend also refers the iPad as such. We both love using it, though I can hopefully do a stealth upgrade when the new one comes out.
 
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