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Great product, terrible name. - Apple One - Fitbit One - Google One - HTC One - Motorola One - Sonos One - SpaceShipOne - Xbox One
by jeremiahlee 6y ago
Great product, terrible name.
- Apple One
- Fitbit One
- Google One
- HTC One
- Motorola One
- Sonos One
- SpaceShipOne
- Xbox One
- axaxs 6y agoYeah, for sure. The 'One' craze started years ago, and for some reason keeps popping up. I roll my eyes everytime I see it now. It's lazy, and tells consumers absolutely nothing about the product.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- vezycash 6y agoMicrosoft started it after they got sued and renamed skydrive to onedrive. Then sinofsky started chanting "one windows." Then xbox one happened. The rest followed suit
- judge2020 6y agoSounds to me like SV lawyers are pushing this to their lawyer friends to make sure nobody can claim they own the "one" term :)
- israrkhan 6y agoI remember the 'One' craze a Microsoft started from an internal movement called "One Microsoft". Microsoft traditionally had lots of different divisions/products competing with each other, and those products did not look like from same company. One Microsoft was about bridging those gaps (between company as well as between products). It resulted in OneDrive, XboxOne, OneNote etc..
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoI think it was on a Google One post on HN recently that a commenter said "A product name of 'One' means the product manager was just tired (or lazy) and didn't want to have endless meetings about the name so they just called it One, and called it a day."
- KarimDaghari 6y agoIt was Amazon. You're right about what the commenter said.
- 0-_-0 6y agoCloudflare Two would have implied that it's better than all of the above. I also heard that customers are mistrustful of version 1 of any product, therefore versioning should start at 2.
- JosephRedfern 6y agoCloudflare Infinity?
- nobody9999 6y agoThese go to 11![0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o&feature=youtu.be
- solarkraft 6y ago- Sony Xperia 1 - Ubuntu One Have we even reached peak One yet? I had thought so a few years ago but it seems to be constantly getting worse.
- infinityplus1 6y agoNot till Apple vertically and horizontally integrates into every possible company and renames itself One. Then you can buy subscription to One One. One subscription, for all you'll ever need...
- zaroth 6y agoSubscription One is one subscription for all the Ones you’ll ever need.
- Cantbekhan 6y ago"One is more than any one will ever need" Bill Gates, 2020 (/sarcasm)
- Cantbekhan 6y agoDon't forget Oneplus
- infinityplus1 6y agoI'm actually surprised no one one-upped them with twoplus yet. Maybe one day.
- fomine3 6y agoEven Xperia 1 II exists.
- agleason 6y agoI feel that's generally how it goes at Cloudflare. They build amazing products and give them terrible names. Name Ideas: Cloudflare Zero Cloudflare Connect Cloudflare Trust Cloudflare Assist You can have those for free, just maybe consider opening a fullstack role in SF :)
- nipponese 6y agoI don't know, I think WARP is pretty awesome.
- ignoramous 6y agoConfusingly, Cloudflare Argo Tunnel was at some point named Warp, too. I believe some of the documentation (code?) continues to use Warp for Argo.
- mike503 6y agoNew Relic One!
- worble 6y agoCan we also add the fact that Cloudfare already has its 1.1.1.1 service, which is what I assumed this post was going to be about? They're competing with themselves here!
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- zaroth 6y agoI assume “One” can’t be trademarked - I wonder how that plays into the calculus.
- mtgx 6y agoI assume Cloudflare X will launch within a few years. That said, within their market, those names aren't very relevant, so not much overlap.
- deltron3030 6y agoForgot KRS One! One as a name addon originates in NY graffiti scene of the 70s, adding a written "One" is still popular among graffiti writers or true-school rappers.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoI am so glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. Don't forget Virgin Hyperloop One too. There's something about "One" that signals a complete lack of creativity.
- everybodyknows 6y agoIt's the generic marketing vacuity in vogue this year. Predecessors: Smart Power Turbo Next Dyna Electric Sure I'm forgetting some ...
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoMust resurrect deluxe.
- riffic 6y agooh this wouldn't be an HN post without someone complaining about the name.
- noizejoy 6y agoI’m sure, these people[0] don’t mind: [0] http://www.nic.one/ http://www.nic.one/
- mrobins 6y ago+New Relic One