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Wow, I disagree strongly with this one. It's so frustrating that I have to describe a feature to a search engine to find out what it's called, just so I can fin

Wow, I disagree strongly with this one. It's so frustrating that I have to describe a feature to a search engine to find out what it's called, just so I can find it in the Settings (sorry, I mean System Preferences) panel. Continuity, Stage Manager, Exposé, Spotlight, Launchpad, Mission Control. These names don't mean anything, and aren't helpful. They're features, not products, yet they are named like products and you just have to be tapped into the marketing language Apple uses in order to know what's what.

zhte415 4y ago
Could we just name things functionally+unique? Functionally as in categories of what they do. Example: Oscalc. O: Office; S: Spreadsheet; Calc: Name of application. There's no reason to stick to only one name, Oscalc in English could be XyCalc in another language. And no reason why something with many functionalities could not be in more than one place, PvVLC could be ArVLC too plus deep linked to the recording function when called as such. Then we could, name things how we liked, know what they do and where they are instantly, and get using them for what we want to do even faster.
- user_named 4y ago
  It's bizarre that you think this would work, and more so that it would work universally for every language.
- majewsky 4y ago
  > PvVLC What does the "Pv" in this even mean? "Playback video"? That does not line up with your other examples. Is the first letter a verb or a noun? What about the second letter? You see how this proposal falls apart once you look at it for more than a second?
- uranusjr 4y ago
  Hungarian Notation essentially? Regardless of (assumed) technical advantages I thought we’ve settled most users just don’t like it.
mort96 4y ago
And surely giving two different products which exist concurrently names which are homonyms or close to it is a terrible idea, right? "EarPods" and "AirPods" sound literally identical in my dialect of English, and they're extremely similar in most.
NoNotTheDuo 4y ago
I agree with you. It's even worse for AppleTV. AppleTV is a set-top box. AppleTV is an app that you can install on your AppleTV. AppleTV+ is a streaming service, which is also an app on AppleTV, but different from AppleTV. AppleTV is an Operating System for old AppleTV hardware.
basch 4y ago
The article is missing the best/worst named apple product. I'm in the camp of best. For sure its the ugly ducking, odd ball out, named unlike any other apple product. Safari. Like Explorer, Navigator before it, it invokes adventure and exploration. It doesn't mean anything per se in technical terms. It is however, a product.
- layer8 4y ago
  It would be fun if Finder was called File Safari and Safari was called Internet Safari and Activity Monitor was called Process Safari.
  - Jemaclus 4y ago
    I always imagined it was a play on "surfing" the web and a Beach Boys reference to "Surfin' Safari".
    - basch 4y ago
      https://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name-safari/ https://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name...
      - layer8 4y ago
        "iBrowse" would certainly have lifted some eyebrows. ;)
    - layer8 4y ago
      I would think it just jibed well with the naming theme of the OS X releases.

zhte415 4y ago

Could we just name things functionally+unique? Functionally as in categories of what they do. Example: Oscalc. O: Office; S: Spreadsheet; Calc: Name of application. There's no reason to stick to only one name, Oscalc in English could be XyCalc in another language. And no reason why something with many functionalities could not be in more than one place, PvVLC could be ArVLC too plus deep linked to the recording function when called as such. Then we could, name things how we liked, know what they do and where they are instantly, and get using them for what we want to do even faster.

user_named 4y ago
It's bizarre that you think this would work, and more so that it would work universally for every language.
majewsky 4y ago
> PvVLC What does the "Pv" in this even mean? "Playback video"? That does not line up with your other examples. Is the first letter a verb or a noun? What about the second letter? You see how this proposal falls apart once you look at it for more than a second?
uranusjr 4y ago
Hungarian Notation essentially? Regardless of (assumed) technical advantages I thought we’ve settled most users just don’t like it.

mort96 4y ago

And surely giving two different products which exist concurrently names which are homonyms or close to it is a terrible idea, right? "EarPods" and "AirPods" sound literally identical in my dialect of English, and they're extremely similar in most.

NoNotTheDuo 4y ago

I agree with you. It's even worse for AppleTV. AppleTV is a set-top box. AppleTV is an app that you can install on your AppleTV. AppleTV+ is a streaming service, which is also an app on AppleTV, but different from AppleTV. AppleTV is an Operating System for old AppleTV hardware.

basch 4y ago

The article is missing the best/worst named apple product. I'm in the camp of best. For sure its the ugly ducking, odd ball out, named unlike any other apple product. Safari. Like Explorer, Navigator before it, it invokes adventure and exploration. It doesn't mean anything per se in technical terms. It is however, a product.

layer8 4y ago
It would be fun if Finder was called File Safari and Safari was called Internet Safari and Activity Monitor was called Process Safari.
- Jemaclus 4y ago
  I always imagined it was a play on "surfing" the web and a Beach Boys reference to "Surfin' Safari".
  - basch 4y ago
    https://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name-safari/ https://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name...
    - layer8 4y ago
      "iBrowse" would certainly have lifted some eyebrows. ;)
  - layer8 4y ago
    I would think it just jibed well with the naming theme of the OS X releases.