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did they stop giving these cutesy dessert-related nicknames for some reason?
by riffic 5y ago
did they stop giving these cutesy dessert-related nicknames for some reason?
- sleibrock 5y agoProbably because they're copying Apple's way of marketing iOS. Flat numbers.
- postalrat 5y agoApple invented numbers for version numbers? Amazing.
- smnrchrds 5y agoThe names were not only dessert-based, but also alphabetical. The last one to be named in this fashion was Pie. They probably couldn't find a good dessert name starting with Q, so they discontinued the practice. OS X names used to be big cats too until they ran out of good ones. Now it's locations in California. Who knows what it will be next.
- forinti 5y agoWhat a lost opportunity to have an Android Quindim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindim
- reayn 5y agoQuiche could've worked
- dont__panic 5y agoI've only ever had savory breakfast quiche (sometimes for brinner, I guess). Is it commonly eaten as a dessert?
- BearOso 5y agoNo, this one is Sno[w] Cone!
- hnburnsy 5y ago> Going with a new naming scheme for the 10th version of Android makes a bit of sense; it’s a landmark release. Still, given how difficult it is to put a common dessert to the letter Q, I noted to Google’s Sameer Samat, VP of product management for Android, that it was awfully convenient that Google picked this release to switch up the naming scheme. “We’re going to deal with that skepticism,” he says. Google’s actual reason for switching the naming, he says, isn’t that Q is hard, but rather that desserts aren’t very inclusive. “We have some good names, but in each and every case they leave a part of the world out,” he argues. Android is a global brand, used by more people in India and Brazil than in the US, so going with an English word for the dessert leaves some regions out. Pie isn’t always a dessert, “lollipop” can be hard to pronounce in some regions, and “marshmallows aren’t really a thing in a lot of places,” Samat says. Numbers, at least, are universal. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/22/20827231/android-10-q-google-name-officially-announced-new-logo-wordmark-desserts https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/22/20827231/android-10-q-goo...
- fortyseven 5y agoSo when importing, we're expected to be tolerant and embrace other cultures unique qualities... ...but when exporting, we have to sanitize cultural expression so as not to confuse or offend. This is all a bit silly.
- dont__panic 5y agoYou could make the same argument that names aren't inclusive -- after all, not everyone can say "Jean Valjean" but "24601" is universal, right? It doesn't really matter, but it's weird reasoning. Cutesy touches like the dessert names help humanize tech company products and anchor them in reality. It's a shame to give it up because we can't find universal desserts, which is a strange claim to make anyway -- wouldn't anybody, anywhere, appreciate a marshmallow? Why not pick some foreign desserts from unappreciated countries to bring attention to them, instead of abandoning the concept entirely?
- lapetitejort 5y ago> wouldn't anybody, anywhere, appreciate a marshmallow? Doubtful. Cacao farmers have never tasted chocolate [0]. Foods and desserts are not universal. The sugary slop I eat in America would be appalling in many places across the world. Not to mention the portion sizes. [0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/01/336919715/these-ivory-coast-cacao-farmers-had-never-tasted-chocolate https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/01/336919715/th...