Product naming rant
-
@TimeBandit said in Product naming rant:
@El_Heffe Windows 1.0 and 2.0 also exist
Hey! I'm not THAT old
http://i.imgur.com/qlvnbjs.png
-
@El_Heffe Well, you didn't really miss anything
-
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
@El_Heffe said in Product naming rant:
Windows 3.0
Windows NT 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows NT 4
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10FTFY :P
FTFY^2
If you're going for the NT editions you should do it properly! :P
-
@Atazhaia You should always do it properly.
-
@Weng said in Product naming rant:
The production lines are still fully capable of special orders and odd combinations, but dealers HATE IT.
Dealers hate him! Local man uses this 1 simple trick to fill special orders on cars!
-
Sony (numeric sequence - easy to distinguish and put in order):
- Playstation
- Playstation 2
- Playstation 3
- Playstation 4
Nintendo (completely different names - easy to distinguish):
- [Super] Nintendo Entertainment System
- Nintendo 64
- GameCube
- Wii [U]
- Switch
Microsoft (what in the world?!?):
- Xbox
- Xbox 360
- Xbox One
Edit: added more consoles (thanks @RaceProUK!)
-
@djls45 said in Product naming rant:
Microsoft (what in the world?!?):
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox OneThe next one will be named "Xbox One SE"
-
@djls45 said in Product naming rant:
Sony (numeric sequence - easy to distinguish and put in order):
- Playstation
- Playstation 2
- Playstation 3
- Playstation 4
That works for the consoles, but the handhelds are Playstation Portable and Playstation Vita. Not quite so good.
But that's nothing compared to Nintendo:
- Game Boy
- Game Boy Color
- Game Boy Advance
- Game Boy Advance SP
- DS
- 3DS
OK, so far, so good. So, what's next?
- New 3DS
Oh dear…
And it's not much better with the home consoles:
- (Super) Nintendo Entertainment System
- Nintendo 64
- GameCube
- Wii
What's next?
- Wii U
Yup.
At least with Switch, they're back on form.
-
@djls45 & @RaceProUK :
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- (Super) Nintendo Entertainment System
- Nintendo 64
- GameCube
- Wii
FTFYB
-
@TimeBandit Wasn't that implied by
Superbeing in brackets?
-
@RaceProUK E_FRIDAY_ENDOFDAY
-
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
New 3DS
And the often forgotten DSi.
Nintendo's naming has been kinda sloppy this last decade.
-
@blakeyrat said in Product naming rant:
@kt_ said in Product naming rant:
If a person buys from Apple, they know it's going to be easy to upgrade.
They also know that 3 weeks after buying their speakers with iPod/iPhone dock, Apple will change the docking connector and fuck them over entirely.
There are 3 different models of the iPad named
iPad 2, and they all look identical except for one digit being different in the text printed on the back.
-
@remi said in Product naming rant:
Also, if you have families of products that more or less do the same thing but with different increasing qualities (or amount of features, or size or whatever), name them in a way that your customers can actually guess which is which!
Which one is the budget-level product, is that "premium", "luxury", "deluxe", "platinum", "prestige"?
This isn't just a problem in the tech world. At Starbucks, the three sizes of cups you can choose from are "large", "large", and "twenty". "Large" is the smallest size available.
-
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
New 3DS
Nintendo does this weird thing where they just throw "New" into the name of a product without realizing that they might at some point in the future want to release another product that is newer.
-
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
OK, so far, so good. So, what's next?
Where's the 2DS in this list?
-
@El_Heffe said in Product naming rant:
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11These two make sense in that Microsoft’s numbering scheme at the time appears to have considered x.1 and x.10 to be the same: the same version will be called by one or the other in different places. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/32905/windows-version-history for examples of using x.10 where most people call these versions x.1.
@TimeBandit said in Product naming rant:
Windows 1.0 and 2.0 also exist
Not for public consumption. Windows 1.01 was the first sold AFAIK, and 2.03 was the first 2.x version, but no 1.0 or 2.0 as such. (Oddly, the Microsoft article I linked to above doesn’t list a 1.02, yet I have a copy of that.)
-
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
OK, so far, so good. So, what's next?
Where's the 2DS in this list?
In Amarillo
-
@RaceProUK do we stop there before or after we stop to pick up a 3DS?
-
-
-
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@RaceProUK do we stop there before or after we stop to pick up a 3DS?
After (the 3DS came first)
-
@RaceProUK that was my point, it could have been in the list to illustrate the non-obvious order more :D
-
@ben_lubar said in Product naming rant:
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
New 3DS
Nintendo does this weird thing where they just throw "New" into the name of a product without realizing that they might at some point in the future want to release another product that is newer.
Newer 3DS
-
@ben_lubar said in Product naming rant:
without realizing that they might at some point in the future want to release another product that is newer
They'll just call it "3DSU".
-
@anonymous234 said in Product naming rant:
@ben_lubar said in Product naming rant:
without realizing that they might at some point in the future want to release another product that is newer
They'll just call it "3DSU".
Super New 3DSUi
-
New 3DS One
-
-
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@NedFodder said in Product naming rant:
New 3DS One
New 3DS One XL
New 3DS One XL HD+
-
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@NedFodder said in Product naming rant:
New 3DS One
New 3DS One XL
New 3DS One XL HD+
New 3DS Mega-City One XL HD+ 4K Xtreem Edition
-
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@NedFodder said in Product naming rant:
New 3DS One
New 3DS One XL
New 3DS One XL HD+
New 3DS Mega-City One XL HD+ 4K Xtreem Edition
Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Chapter II: New 3DS Mega-City One XL HD+ 4K Xtreem Edition
-
@ben_lubar said in Product naming rant:
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@RaceProUK said in Product naming rant:
@Arantor said in Product naming rant:
@NedFodder said in Product naming rant:
New 3DS One
New 3DS One XL
New 3DS One XL HD+
New 3DS Mega-City One XL HD+ 4K Xtreem Edition
Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Chapter II: New 3DS Mega-City One XL HD+ 4K Xtreem Edition
Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Chapter II: New 3DS Mega-City One XL HD+ 4K Xtreem Edition Part Deux
-
@dkf said in Product naming rant:
Part Deux
And then the next part will be called "Episode One".
Maximum confusion!
