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Zoom this, zoom that. Is zoom paying journalists to name drop their product everywhere? Kinda like how ESPN gets "Twitter comments", instead of calling it gene
by ydnaclementine 6y ago
Zoom this, zoom that. Is zoom paying journalists to name drop their product everywhere?
Kinda like how ESPN gets "Twitter comments", instead of calling it general internet comments
- scarface74 6y agoDo most people say “let me look on a search engine” or “let me Google it”?
- edoceo 6y agoDDG: if you can't duck it then ...
- gowld 6y agoen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
- dylan604 6y agoIs that the best worst thing or the worst best thing to happen to your company?
- p1necone 6y agoIt probably means your company was successful enough that you can retire and do whatever you like for the rest of your life. Would be a good thing for me, although probably a bad thing for the company as a whole. I'd call it a best worst thing - one of those problems where it's bad, but the only way to have the problem is to be really successful.
- ldarby 6y agoIt looks like it really is Zoom in the screenshots (but yes if it wasn't Zoom and someone called it Zoom, I think that would be terrible).
- hellotomyrars 6y agoI'm gonna say that Zoom isn't paying anyone to associate their brand with sentencing someone to the death penalty. Zoom blew up as the video conferencing solution of the pandemic. And in this case they are using the product. But ultimately it's just become the parlance for it.
- edoceo 6y agoYep. Like make a Xerox of that, or I need a Kleenex or a Band-Aid
- summitsummit 6y agowhat's the "generic" term for bandaid?
- Jtsummers 6y agoAdhesive bandage.
- marton78 6y agoIt's incredible to me how Microsoft was able to blow that chance with Skype. Just a while ago Skype used to be the generic trademark. "I'm skyping with my girlfriend"
- bdcravens 6y agoI literally just saw a Snickers commercial that ended with, "I thought we were doing the zoom thing"