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iOS, iPad, iPod, iMac, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous, Cybershot, Vista, Wii (children smirk), XBoxOne (didn't we have an XBox 1?), are all pretty shitty names. I c
by inthewind 13y ago
iOS, iPad, iPod, iMac, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous, Cybershot, Vista, Wii (children smirk), XBoxOne (didn't we have an XBox 1?), are all pretty shitty names. I can even remember thinking that Google was a toy name when I first heard it. So doesn't matter that much - over time you ignore them. On the flip side, I loved the name Bing until MS used it, I feel uneasy each time I hear it.
- parasubvert 13y agoDude, I have to ask, what is NOT a shitty name in your world? I think some of those brand names were pretty good (the original XBox, iPod too).
- inthewind 13y agoGood question - sorry to come over as negative! Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, XBox (I only think the new name is misleading), Playstation (though it does sound like a childs play area - which I guess it is...), Oracle, Sun, Apple, Mac (this one is weird, Macintosh??, the abbreviation is short for friend or nice drink), Trillian, Xerox (a bit dated - but different), Knoppix, Debian (I like name inspired ones), OCP, Acorn, MSX (original XBox?), Dragon, Spectrum, Spectre, OpenSource, Ubuntu, Redhat/Fedora, Suse (brain is struggling now), Hobnob, Jaffacake, Pathe, Universal, Pegasus, Mercury messenger, Kindle, Nook, Monster Munch, Twiglets, Suma, Pot noodle, Marmite, Oat Crunchies, Audi, Honda, Kia, Lotus, Epic, The Who, The Fall, The The - sure there are loads more, but can't think of them off the top of my head. (I guess it was clever of Flickr, to do something at least different, but the other web2.0 wannabe names feel like second rate copy cats.)