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App brand-naming poll
- Thread starter Dario D.
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The site's functionality and features are what matter to me. As long as the name is short enough to remember and type, and easy to pronounce, it's fine. "Google" is a made-up word, too, you know. These names are here to stay, since the domain registration system has let squatters ... well, squat.
Demon10000
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If the app is good, I'll use it. I could care less what it's called.
Monkey34
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The way I look at it, it's no different than commercials on TV. The strangest and worst jingles are usually the ones that stick in peoples heads - thereby getting the product placed right where they want it.
I don't know where you live, but here in America, the TV ads are already as strange as possible. One long running ad features a bear that pops out of the dryer to discuss how soft your clothes could be. Another features talking toilet cleaner bubbles, which have face-bubbles on the top, but bristles on the bottom. Their job is to scrub, and go down the toilet drain. That seems sad and nihilistic, but somewhere a bunch of advertising writers are very happy with it. There are other ads which tell me that a product is just good, and I should take their word for it; I don't need to confuse myself with all that "science and stuff". You know: I should completely discard any reasoning about why the product might or might not be good.
There are newer ads which are even stranger. One has a little cartoon bear starting his day with his mom. The mother bear -- normally, a notiriously prodctive and vicious anamial -- using a pencil and paper to check the hygiene of the baby bear. Teeth? Check. Ears? Check. Bum? No! The baby bear has bits of toilet paper around his bum, and everyone -- bears and you alike -- should use a better brand of paper that doesn't shred.
The inappropriate anthropomorphism and inane comparisons are entirely vacuous. I don't understand how these campaigns get green-lighted, and can't believe the millions spent in their production and distribution.
There are newer ads which are even stranger. One has a little cartoon bear starting his day with his mom. The mother bear -- normally, a notiriously prodctive and vicious anamial -- using a pencil and paper to check the hygiene of the baby bear. Teeth? Check. Ears? Check. Bum? No! The baby bear has bits of toilet paper around his bum, and everyone -- bears and you alike -- should use a better brand of paper that doesn't shred.
The inappropriate anthropomorphism and inane comparisons are entirely vacuous. I don't understand how these campaigns get green-lighted, and can't believe the millions spent in their production and distribution.