The uneducated individual thinks every black tablet is an iPad

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So today, I got a call from a customer telling me that they have an iPad that they recorded movies and videos on and they needed help burning them to a dvd. Well they brought the "iPad" to my house, got it out and handed it to me. You could immediately tell it was in fact not an iPad. As it turns out it was a Motorola Xoom. I told them, This isn't an iPad, it's a Motorola Xoom running Android. She said, Oh I thought was an iPad.

So you wonder why Apple has issue with all tablets, that are black. The only issue is the uneducated person is so clueless there is little other manufactures could do to make them not look like an iPad. If the device is a black colored tablet, it will be confused with being an iPad.

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I would say ~70% of people think ALL tablets are ipads just as all MP3 players are ipods... sad that people don't even know what they are buying. it's all about marketing, again all sheep

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you guys don't understand the fact that people DONT UNDERSTAND TECH....some people they've lived 50-70 years without gadgets and now everything changes every 8 months. most your parents grew up without a computer and they've only had the internet for 1/5 of their life. the general public aka most people you don't know don't understand electronics

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I'll never understand why some humans can't read, or, rather, choose not to. If they can take an extra minute to compare boxes of cereal in a grocery, then they can take an extra minute to read product labels so that they know they're not buying the wrong thing! It's common sense!

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I'll never understand why some humans can't read, or, rather, choose not to. If they can take an extra minute to compare boxes of cereal in a grocery, then they can take an extra minute to read product labels so that they know they're not buying the wrong thing! It's common sense!

Common sense was lost in the early 90's

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Common sense was lost in the early 90's

The Time at which common sense was lost and Windows XP was released introducing the "category view" in the control panel are pretty close together, if not the cause! (But that's a topic for a whole other thread.)

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Yeah... Same thing with smartphones. A lot of people just call them iphones. I guess it's how back in the day, a lot of people called video games Nintendo.

Excuse me....they were Atari's. Lets get that right.

The same way people say I need to make a xerox. No you need to make a copy.

or back in the day everyone had walkmans. No they didnt, but thats what that thing that played tapes was called no matter who made it. So this renaming situation isnt new at all.

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So today, I got a call from a customer telling me that they have an iPad that they recorded movies and videos on and they needed help burning them to a dvd. Well they bring the "iPad" to my house, they get it out and hand it to me. You could immediately tell it was in fact not an iPad. As it turns out it was a Motorola Zoom. I told them, This isn't an iPad, it's a Motorola Zoom running Android. She said, Oh I thought was an iPad.

So you wonder why Apple has issue with all tablets, that are black. The only issue is the uneducated person is so clueless there is little other manufactures could do to make them not look like an iPad. If the device is a black colored tablet, it will be confused with being an iPad.

It wasn't a Motorola Zoom either. It was a Xoom. :D

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I'll never understand why some humans can't read, or, rather, choose not to. If they can take an extra minute to compare boxes of cereal in a grocery, then they can take an extra minute to read product labels so that they know they're not buying the wrong thing! It's common sense!

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I have to agree with @Co_Co on this one, not everyone understands technology; and I'm guessing that if they are a customer of yours, they really don't care what piece of hardware they have, or how it works, they just want to use it.

Mistakes like this can be seen all around, not just in the tech world; for example, if you went to an engineer and asked for a 'bolt' he may name hundreds of types of different bolts, but at the end of the day, what do we care? A bolt is a bolt.

Kind of a weird example, but it's true. Also, I assume your job is to inform/help people with technology, therefore, you should not be complaining that a customer is 'uneducated' in your field of work, after all, if everyone was educated in the technological world, you wouldn't have any customers at all.

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