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Good luck to them, and I've bookmarked it to keep tabs on it in future, but that is an infuriating and in my opinion - very poor - choice of brand name.
by detritus 6y ago
Good luck to them, and I've bookmarked it to keep tabs on it in future, but that is an infuriating and in my opinion - very poor - choice of brand name.
- andrew_c_v 6y agoCan you give more details on this? Is that name already associated with something else?
- detritus 6y ago‘Relativity’ would anyway be generic, non-descriptive for this product domain and cliche, but then to mispell it just to 'get a domain' (or whatever the logic was) seems poorly considered - every time I see 'relativty' it reads as a typo. Choosing names is Hard though, I appreciate.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoI agree that "relativity" isn't a great name: it's a mouthful at 5 syllables, and I don't see a logical connection between the name and the product. But I don't understand why the name would be infuriating. Can you explain?
- ColeyG 6y agoNot the OP but I thought it was miss-spelled at first.
- alecfreud 6y agoThe name is "Relativty" without the last 'i' That's the issue. It's an awkward 4 syllables.
- gegtik 6y ago"Relative-T"?
- SamBam 6y agoThe fact that you thought it was "relativity" is exactly what makes it infuriating, I think.
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- Raphmedia 6y agoRelati-"vee"-ty? They could brand it like "relatiVty" or "RELATIvTY", I guess. Or maybe "relativTY" (relative, thank you [open source community])? Either way, by searching for "relativity vr headset" you end up on the proper website. So the point is kind of moot in my opinion. People might remember it as the "correct" spelling and end up at the right place anyway.
- dang 6y agoInfuriating? Let's not go there here please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html