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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
by 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 agoIt would be fun if Finder was called File Safari and Safari was called Internet Safari and Activity Monitor was called Process Safari.
- Jemaclus 4y agoI always imagined it was a play on "surfing" the web and a Beach Boys reference to "Surfin' Safari".
- basch 4y agohttps://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 agoI would think it just jibed well with the naming theme of the OS X releases.