When I first heard the name "Safari"

Post by philwelch » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 3:57 PM UTC

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Well, I can't see how "killing elephants" is different than "exploiting the natives; killing rare animals". Safari is phonetically a very nice name, however it still bears negative connotations. At least for some people.

Great names often have some negative connotations. Caterpillar is such an excellent name, that almost everybody remembers it once they have seen it. That can't be said about many other building machinery brands. But you can bet that when that name was proposed, somebody raised objections because "you can't name our powerful machines after an insect" Virgin Airlines has very negative connotations ("Virgin communicates…

Post by mturmon » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 4:01 PM UTC

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Calling the browser 'Safari' is weird, if you think about it. I remember trying to teach my mom how to use the iPad to access the internet: "First press the home button" "Ok" "Now tap on Safari" "But I don't want to see animals" "..." And that's when I realized why Internet Explorer was so successful.

I vaguely associated it with "Surfin' Safari" and the Beach Boys.

Post by SimHacker » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 4:12 PM UTC

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At Maxis, we didn't arrive at the totally obvious name The Sims until very late in development. At first there was the secret development name, Project X, but everybody had a Project X, and we certainly couldn't ship with that. Then there was Jamie's obvious name, Dollhouse, which was quite descriptive, but boys would hate it. Then there was Will's quirky name, Super Happy Friends Home, which only the Japanese would…

> Then there was the legendary perfectly descriptive catchy epic name, that everyone on the team really loved, which we dreamed up together in a brainstorming session when we were all quite stoned Have you considered it only seemed legendary because you were all stoned? When I'm drunk every idea seems a good idea... I wonder if the name would still seem legendary if you guys had remembered it.

Post by SimHacker » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 4:15 PM UTC

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The stock Android browser is still called “Browser”. My Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.1.1 has Browser version 4.1.1.

That's almost as brilliantly perverse as the Mac OS originally being called "System".

Post by idm » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

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I seem to remember hearing it was going to be called "SimHouse" at one point. "Super Happy Friends Home" is excellent, but yeah, I think "The Sims" worked out for the best. :)

Oh yeah, that sounds familiar! But that DEFINITELY was not the legendary name we all forgot. SimHouse and a few names like that were floated around, but they were't very exciting or apt, since the focus evolved from the architecture to the people. The big problem was that nobody had any idea what players would think of it, so we just kept developing it and playing it and changing the design, while wondering about wha…