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Tired of pretentiously named apps. Mailbox, and now Outbox. Yes, I get it that Apple Computer shortened their name to Apple, and that it's cool to be like Appl
by benatkin 13y ago
Tired of pretentiously named apps. Mailbox, and now Outbox.
Yes, I get it that Apple Computer shortened their name to Apple, and that it's cool to be like Apple. But that isn't OK, and it doesn't make it OK for your startup. It's pillaging of the English language. At least when I say apple, context may help people to recognize when I mean the fruit and when I mean the tech company. With Outbox and Mailbox the context is less likely to provide the needed hint, because the lowercase terms and the uppercase terms in the same domain: email.
Adding to the pretense is the fact that they don't even own "{{product_name}}.com". Instead it's "{{product_name}}mail.com" or "{{product_name}}app.com".
- joelandren 13y agoYou're kidding, right? Aptly-named products that are popular in the everyday vernacular are pretentious? In this day and age, it's impossible to own the .com for anything but asdjhlsadnklsajkdaskljjkldas.com without paying through the nose for these domains (see Color). Simply-named descriptive apps are a step in the right direction.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> You're kidding, right? Aptly-named products that are popular in the everyday vernacular are pretentious? How is Outbox -- which presents a digital version of a snail-mail inbox -- "aptly named"?
- omni 13y agoI think Outbox even fails to meet the much lower bar of naming your product something that is minimally searchable. Trying to find technical help for this product through general web search would be a nightmare.