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There should be a higher bar for company names than co-opting a dictionary word or even just a letter. The lack of originality seems to be accelerating: first "
by bqmjjx0kac 3y ago
There should be a higher bar for company names than co-opting a dictionary word or even just a letter. The lack of originality seems to be accelerating: first "Alphabet", then "Meta", and now "X"? (Honorable mention for "Apple".)
- nocoiner 3y agoBut Apple has been named Apple for, what, five decades? And besides, “Apple Computer Corp.” was surely better than “Computronics Inc.” or whatever was in vogue at that time.
- earthboundkid 3y agoJust think of what Steve Job would have called his next computer company…
- LeoPanthera 3y agoI don't know how true this is, but the story was always that the Steves chose "Apple" because it was ahead of "Atari" in the phone book. I hope it's true. But these things often turn out to be myths.