Well GMail rhymes nicely, Gee-mail, and it's pretty obvious what it does. KMail doesn't have the same rhythm to it, it sounds slightly middle eastern or german

Well GMail rhymes nicely, Gee-mail, and it's pretty obvious what it does. KMail doesn't have the same rhythm to it, it sounds slightly middle eastern or german, like maybe it's a Polish software package or something.. The difference is these big companies spend a lot of time thinking about the application names, iPhone is genius in how simple it is. I mean there are good names also, Linux in itself is a good name for example, it's unique and doesn't sound dorky. And Firefox and some others, I'm not blaming all of them. Gimp might have been a good name in the mid-to-late 90s when the development of Gimp and Gnome began, but still sticking to it just doesn't make much sense to me.