kevin:lharboe: “How Scrabble was meant to be played.”

No, actually it really isn’t — neat trick, though. I just hope they aren’t playing by the bogus new rules.

"I’ll bet that if Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs had even one woman on his executive team, the iPad would have been given a different name. Otherwise why would Apple (AAPL) give its new device a name half of the population equates with feminine hygiene?"

“Addressing the Dearth of Female Entrepreneurs” (BusinessWeek)

via jenbee:

Ran into a colleague at breakfast yesterday morning and we were discussing the iPad. I was surprised by how horribly awkward it felt to say it out loud in polite company. I’m pretty sure that I don’t want to buy one now. (Which has nothing to do with the product itself, which I totally covet.)

Related: If There Were More Female Executives, We Would Have a Different Business World

This is why the iPad might not be such a great thing after all. Apple is buying up all the nice real estate and then making us live by their house rules. (The tradeoff is we’re furnished with really, really nice furniture).