Posted on May 17, 2004 at 12:00 am

A note on product names

Developers and software companies: When you’re working on a product, please please pretty please with sugar on top don’t give the product a generic name. It makes googling for support much more difficult than it should be.

Yes, I’m looking at you, "Mail" and "Evolution."

The standard practice on Mac boards and blogs of de-generifying Mail by calling it Mail.app is a rational response, but is so much teh ugly, and wouldn’t be necessary if Apple could just have come up with some other name; even something dipsticky like (gag) iMail would be an improvement when it comes to mining the google fields.

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Posted by Nic Lindh at May 17, 2004 09:09 PM |TrackBack

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