10 Origin of the World's Advanced Product Name
1. iPod : "Open the pod bay door, Hal"
At the time of the development process of Apple's MP3 player, Steve Jobs expressed his strategy on the Mac as a hub for a variety of other tools. Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter hired to help think of the name of the product before its debut in 2001. Then, based on the concept of connecting everything, comes the idea of the space station. You can leave, but must return to refuel. From prototype products that use plastic, she was inspired to use the term "pod". Add the letter "i" in front of it and complete the connection to the iMac.
2. BlackBerry : Sweet Addictiveness
Research in Motion (RIM) of Canada using the help of Lexicon Branding for equipment (gadgets), a new wireless email creation in 2001. Consultants are forcing RIM to throw away the term "e-mail", where the results showed that these words can increase blood pressure. Therefore, they tried to find another name that can bring feelings of joy and peace. After seeing a prototype with small buttons that resemble grains, exploring the Lexicon team names such as strawberries, melons, and various other vegetables before deciding on the name "Blackberry", a name that brings happiness while the black color of instrument them.
3.Firefox : Second Choice Is Luck
Mozilla team had felt that choosing a name that can highlight the essence of the product at the same time still available for use is very complicated. Actually, Mozilla uses the name "Firebird" at first, but turns out there is an open-source projects that already use the name. So, Mozilla officials eventually replace with "Firefox", which is another name for red panda. The reason? Easy to remember, sounds neat, unique, preferably by the team, and the main reason was no one else wears.
4. Twitter
When the inventor, Biz Stone saw an application that was created by Jack Dorsey created in 2006, she then remembered how birds communicate. "The information is short and fast ... Every individual chirping, and enjoy the moment. " In response, Stone comes with the term "twttr", and another team later added vowels. From these simple concepts, Stone describes the system as a flood of communication that evolved into a network, the fastest news, and finally a forum for U.S. presidential election campaign of the 44th.
5.Windows 7 : Relying Strength "7"
Windows Vista? Sounds lovely right? But what happens after the product launch is the destruction of a name that has been thought carefully using that philosophy. Windows 95 and XP is still far better than Vista. For this time, Mike Nash from Microsoft say that they really are betting on the number "7 " which he said could bring good luck and be confident ahead of Vista.
6. ThinkPad : Superior Simplicity
Model PC laptop that is now being praised this, first appeared in 1992. Although the concept is already very mature, but IBM still confused what to call him. A group of pen-computing IBM wants to keep it simple and they like the ThinkPad. But the committee did not giver IBM corporate names, since these names do not possess the numbers and all IBM products should possess a number. Somehow, the name of the winning ThinkPad, and it is a blow to IBM, which eventually sold it to Lenovo in 2005.
7. Android
Do you think if the story behind the naming of the open-source platform for mobile devices owned by Alliance, which eventually spawned G1 brand name is cool. Emmm .. it is not. In 2005, Google quietly acquired a company called Android Inc. mysterious., which operates in secret to develop software for mobile phones. However, results of Google's stealth and Internet trends actually bring up the name "T-Mobile's G1" on October 22, 2008.
8. Wikipedia
According to Wikipedia, the name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of "wiki" (meaning: the technology for creating collaborative websites) and "encyclopaedia". In addition, portmanteau itself means it is a cool way to take two different words and combine them with the hope of creating a new concept that people liked.
Actually is a denotation of the Roman numeral for 10, since the OS is the tenth release after Mac OS 0. But, many Apple fans who interpret it as the letter "X". And the names of big cats is also associated with an image of smooth, neat, and elegant like the Cheetah (10.0), Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and the last is Leopard (10.6). Gossip says that Lynx and Cougar are under development.
10. Red Hat Linux : Nama yang Kaya Arti
The inventor, Bob Young (pictured below) provides a multi-dimensional origin of the name Red Fedora. First, in the history of the West, Red (red) is the symbol of freedom and resist authority. Second, co-founder Marc Ewing wore his grandfather's red hat in college and became known for its technology expertise. Third, Ewing and then give the name of its projects with the name of Red Hat 1, Red Hat 2, and so on. So, according to Young, when Ewing started the Linux project, he only gave the name of Red Hat Linux.
Source : Kaskus dan disarikan dari pcworld.com
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