Re: I hate MeeGo
 

Sorry but for me the brand is not anymore decision driving parameter for a device, but OS certainly is. And "I have a nokia" is irrelevant in a discussion about phone OS's.

Also it's my opinion but I still think "I have a meego device" is really bad comparing to "I have a symbian phone" or "I have an android device" or something.
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Pentium? thats a brand managed by Intel.. managed so well that the word ended up meaning 'good computer'

Saying you had a "pentium computer" to computer illiterate person meant you had a fast computer, they probably hadnt heard of Intel, couldnt even tell you what a cpu or pentium was, but the general public would instantly identify with the word Pentium and presume if it had one, it was good.... and its still true today to a great degree.

Re: I hate MeeGo
 

but why you then have "I have a Blackberry" on your list, and not "I have a BlackberryOS device"?
And yes, it's a matter of taste..
But think about the following:
"My car runs meego, my house-system runs meego, my TV runs meego, my netbook runs meego, my PND runs meego, my washing machine runs meego, my EVERYTHING runs meego. I AM meego, because I am what I think"

;)

Re: I hate MeeGo
 

/me goes with meego

Re: I hate MeeGo
 

This is often NOT desirable as a marketing decision. Look for example how Google dislikes the use of the verb "google" to replace the word "search". http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/...ou-google.html Because tomorrow maybe all of us will "google" up on bing, yahoo or whatever, even if the original google dies up.

Maybe that is the reason pentium was quickly phazed out by intel, maybe that's the reason pentium is now a not-so-good computer, just above the celerons.
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Re: I hate MeeGo
 

I highly doubt Pentium was at risk of becoming a genericized trademark...

Google quite possibly could... point is that intel has managed a brand, and managed it very effectively...

Pentium wasnt quickly phased out? they used it from 1993 until 2008... they did try to phase it out to create a new brand for multicore processes but OEM manufacturers wanted them to keep the brand because it meant computer sales, so pentium stuck for another 2 years on dual-core cpu's

Re: I hate MeeGo
 

LOL your name is Mojo and you hate Meego....why is that??

I thought a person with the name Mojo would be the one who would praise and like Meego

irony....or something related

Re: I hate MeeGo
 

I mean, quickly phazed out when the generalization started to happen. There are even songs with pentium in them (funny I must say, but anyway). Also I don't think pentium was a brand that needed much of a management. If we exclude the 4's and the D's they played with literally no competition, and they stood up to the expectations. You have a good product and crappy competition, for at least 3 years.
Also previous achievement's don't mean that today's choices are correct. Nokia's 4 digit branding was good for many years when the range was smaller, and the digits denoted the series (3 -> consumer, 6-> professional, 8->luxury, 9->communicators), and how advanced was the phone, (3110, 3210, 3310, 3330, 3410, 3510, 3530) Now the 4 digit branding has become pointless. Numbers are chosen almost randomly, some are even used twice over the years, phones get confused (5320, 5230) and there are so much phones that noone remembers them by heart.
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Re: I hate MeeGo
 

??? How could it be "completely different" and not "bear any resemblance"? are they going to throw away linux, qt, gtk, dbus, x11, telepathy, ........?

Re: I hate MeeGo
 

I agree, MeeGo is not a very cool name.

But if you add a A, you can have AMeeGo (amigo = friend in spanish language). It will be just better.