Word, Apple, Windows, Pages, Paper, Reader, Brackets.
Noun.
Paper, by MiSoft
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Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#32I honestly have to say that i find myself highly amused by people appropiating the names of everyday objects for their products, exhibiting no common sense or creativity, and then getting upset in true kindergarten style when others do the same thing.
> exhibiting no common sense or creativity I think it makes perfect sense to name products with words that exist (like "Sprite", "Mustang", and "Tide"), or a compound word made up of 2+ words. Making up new words ("Pepsi", "Camaro", and "Clorox") can be a lot more risky, especially if it's a consumer brand. What would you have named Facebook Paper instead?
ThePaper
Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#33tl;dr Silos suck. Inevitably the farmers that control them them make people angry. Money talks. Capricious decisions are made. Today's winners become tomorrow's losers.
Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#34My tip is to be more creative and figure out a decent name for your product. “Browse your Paper with simple, natural movements.” Does this product name makes sense for native english speaking people?
Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#35More to this story http://figure53.com/notes/2014-02-04-david-and-goliath/ 53 looks more and more like a jerk here
As soon as they wrote their letter, praising themselves for changing the world, and talking about sending the lawyers I moved from their side.
How is this much different than the "Candy" "Saga" situation?
Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#36I'm having a really hard time understanding the sense of entitlement and indignation carried in these name gripes.
Personally, I tend to think of names as a fraction of what makes up an idea multiplier [0].
Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#37FiftyThree just posted this on Twitter: .@daringfireball please don’t take the bait. Paper by miSoft V1 was launched Sep 20th 2012, 5 month after us. https://twitter.com/FiftyThree/status/430845528805756928
Wasn't their point that they registered the name Paper with Apple before anyone else? You can register an app name and have it held for a couple months I think before actually launching.
You have 180 days after registering the name to use it - and then you can never register that name again under that developer account.
Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#38I honestly have to say that i find myself highly amused by people appropiating the names of everyday objects for their products, exhibiting no common sense or creativity, and then getting upset in true kindergarten style when others do the same thing.
> exhibiting no common sense or creativity I think it makes perfect sense to name products with words that exist (like "Sprite", "Mustang", and "Tide"), or a compound word made up of 2+ words. Making up new words ("Pepsi", "Camaro", and "Clorox") can be a lot more risky, especially if it's a consumer brand. What would you have named Facebook Paper instead?
I don't even know what Facebook Paper is and don't care. However as you mentioned, compounds, even of the simplest kind, are a GREAT idea. The important thing is that, even if you lack the common sense or creativity, it is completely and fully unreasonable to not expect someone else to make the same bad decision. Open letters, heartfelt emotional addresses and displays of surprise are not a thing that should happen and instead, if one feels the need to go ahead and use one of the top 300 english words, one should be fully prepared for legal battles ahead.
In short: Hire a gaggle of lawyers before using any of these verbatim: http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Most_frequent_1...
Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> exhibiting no common sense or creativity I think it makes perfect sense to name products with words that exist (like "Sprite", "Mustang", and "Tide"), or a compound word made up of 2+ words. Making up new words ("Pepsi", "Camaro", and "Clorox") can be a lot more risky, especially if it's a consumer brand. What would you have named Facebook Paper instead?
ThePaper
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Re: Paper, by MiSoft
#40It's almost as if there needs to be an entire regulatory scheme for dealing with naming disputes, which would allow app developers and startups to protect their brand. Oh wait, there is, it's called Trademark Law! As such, it's getting really old seeing a bunch of angry parties writing open letters and rants on social media trying to claim they're the morally superior party for [BS REASON HERE]. None of that matters.…
I doubt that Misoft has sufficient resources to "lawyer up". That right is reserved to big companies with lots of money. Like Facebook.
Right. Remember all the drama and moralizing when Apple and Cisco sorted out the right to the name "iPhone?" Me neither.
All this litigation via social media is happening exactly because these are small companies that don't have the resources to litigate via the courts.