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Most of those are at least "real names" though, which you can find some sort of significance behind. Either named after a place or person, or with some sort of
by vanchor3 3y ago
Most of those are at least "real names" though, which you can find some sort of significance behind. Either named after a place or person, or with some sort of meaning. Rather than names that seem to be randomly generated 5-7 character vaguely pronounceable names that aren't already in use.
- solardev 3y agoMaybe if you look them up, but I bet the average person has no idea what Lenovo, Asus, Volvo, Nintendo, Samsung, and IKEA mean. Even more modern company names are kinda like that... Anker, DJI, Haier, Dalian Wanda, Kagi, Vercel, Nexon, Plex, Splunk, Zyxel, Sonos, Zynga, Hulu, Etsy, Yandex... Maybe if they just used a better random name generator with a better appreciation for English phonemes, we'd never know the difference lol.
- FormerBandmate 3y ago> Anker, DJI, Haier, Dalian Wanda These all started as the equivalent of Amazon brands and went legit after getting a reputation for relative quality. Anker especially
- solardev 3y agoNot Dalian Wanda, I don't think? They started in Chinese real estate and now own much of Hollywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Group Edit: Actually, I don't think DJI and Haier were Amazon brands either. DJI was bootstrapped by a college kid's family after transitioning from selling electronic parts. Haier was in SE Asia before the US. Anker was though. Along with Aukey, RavPower, Mpow... some of those were eventually kicked off though, I think.
- ulfw 3y agoYou're spot on. https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22536976/amazon-ravpower-battery-charger-removed-amazon https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22536976/amazon-ravpower-...
- silisili 3y agoEh, not really Haier so much. Their namesake came from a joint effort with Liebherr in the 80s, and they've pretty much been legit since.
- ulfw 3y agoNo they didn't. What are you talking about?! DJI has zero to do with anything amazon. Da-Jiang Innovations started with mainland students at HKUST almost twenty years ago and then moved to Shenzhen. No amazon whatever marketplace back then. Da Lian Wanda group is a property developer and cinema owner etc in China that sells neither houses nor cinemas on amazon. Haier as a name has been around since Liebherr JV'ed with Qingdao refrigerator in 1984. Amazon was founded ten years later! Please don't use LLMs to post on here. There need to be at least a minimum of truth or facts when posting.
- singleshot_ 3y agoTrademarks, in some ways, have stronger protections if they’re made up (I.e., “fanciful”). You’re going to have a challenging time protecting a trademark of a common word than a made up one.
- musicale 3y agoInterpretations mostly off the top of my head with wikipedia lookups for some of the non-English names: Lenovo - the new thing; Asus, Volvo - vaguely anatomical in English, but actually from pegasus and "I roll" in Latin; Nintendo - 任天堂 might mean something in Japanese; Samsung - 삼성/三星 "three stars" in Korean; IKEA - IK is from founder Ingvar Kamprad's initials, EA more obscurely from his home farm and village; Anker - big and heavy "anchor", appropriate for power adapters; Kagi - means "key" in Japanese; Nexon - from Nexus, their (still running!) 1996 MMORPG; Plex - from multiplex or cineplex; Sonos - from sound; Hulu - sounds like "hula" but apparently from Mandarin; Etsy - from "etc.", implying you can find "everything else"; Yandex - Yet Another + (network) Index. They seem to be fairly sensible names for the most part.
- solardev 3y agoThat's great. I never would've known any of those, but I love your explanations.
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