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TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGoTizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGoPosted Aug 13, 2012 20:23 UTC (Mon) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)In reply to: TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo by daglwn Parent article: TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo
Android is a good name. With or without the marketing. People know how to pronouce and write it and the little robot is everywhere so association is strong. Even non-techies get what an android app is and know to look for the the little green robot.
I personally think Digicam would have been a better name than that childish KDE capital K crap, but that is just me.
Libre Office is pretty awful in my country, OpenOffice was/is much better. Clang does not need a good name, only projects that consumers might need to know profit from having a good name. Clang is hardly something big parts of the population need to know about.
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TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 13, 2012 21:47 UTC (Mon) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432) [Link]
"Android" conveys nothing about what it actually *is*, though. That's why the marketing is important. That little great robot is great. It's great because it's marketing.
I don't care so much about the "K" KDE stuff as long as I can guess what it is. digiKam is certainly one of the lesser offenders as far as silliness goes. :)
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 13, 2012 22:04 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Plus, Motorola has swamped the brand. Only geeks talk about Android. Everybody else just asks "hey is that a Droid??"
"No... well, yes, it's an Android phone, so it's similar to the Droid, but it's made by HTC."
"Wut?"
"Fine, yes, it's a Droid. Nice, huh?"
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 13, 2012 22:29 UTC (Mon) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]
BS. Thats not Motorola. It is Verizon and they have Droids from HTC.
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 0:13 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
You're probably right, I haven't looked into it. But you agree with my point? Most regular people refer to the entire Android ecosystem as "Droid".
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 3:57 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
I have never seen that. Dozens and dozens of regular folks have mentioned Android to me however.
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 3:58 UTC (Tue) by LightDot (guest, #73140) [Link]
Perhaps in your part of the world, how big that my be. My parts of the world suffer from no such generalizations. Even more, saying "droid" to anyone would most likely produce a blank stare, while "android" most likely will not.
Thus taking either your or mine impressions and assuming we now have an insight into the worldwide product recognition seems to be a bit premature.
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 14:18 UTC (Tue) by joeldillon (guest, #86199) [Link]
As everyone else is saying, you mean 'most Americans'. Verizon doesn't have a whole lot of European (or Chinese, or African, or South American) customers ;p
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 15:48 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Very true. It might even be just Californians, or wherever Verizon sloshed all their marketing dollars.
OT: Android vs droid vs FDroid Posted Aug 14, 2012 15:39 UTC (Tue) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]
I have never heard anybody referring to Android as "droid". I wasn't even aware of the word "droid" and would have probably assumed a pronounciation error or typo. I like FDroid, though :~)
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 11:21 UTC (Tue) by dodocaptain (subscriber, #44818) [Link]
Interesting, what region of the world is that?
Over here in New Zealand, Android has pretty strong recognition with consumers who tend to understand that there is a range of vendors selling Android phones with different hardware styles and software capabilities.
It may start to change as marketing of specific models gets more aggressive, there's been a huge amount of advertising for the Samsung Galaxy S3, more so than any model in the past, will be interesting to see what effect it makes on consumers over time.
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 1:23 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]
> "Android" conveys nothing about what it actually *is*, though.
Names of things need not (and perhaps should not) evoke the essence of those things. The reverse happens: The name of a thing comes to mean the thing that it does.
Most people google things instead of searching for them. Google doesn't have the name because it means search, it means search because it does the thing. If your purpose is strong enough any name will become natural and right--provided you can both read it when written and pronounce it out louad.
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 17:35 UTC (Tue) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]
Android is not a fitting name. It has nothing to do with robotics.
TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo Posted Aug 14, 2012 21:50 UTC (Tue) by teknohog (guest, #70891) [Link]
> Android is not a fitting name. It has nothing to do with robotics.
There used to be a company called Zendroid that actually dealt with robotics. Google and Lucasfilm asked the company to change its name because of trademark issues.
I have no connection with this company, but somehow this incident is incredibly sad and stupid.
At least Windows has something to do with graphical user interfaces.
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