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Zoom this, zoom that. Is zoom paying journalists to name drop their product everywhere?

Kinda like how ESPN gets "Twitter comments", instead of calling it general internet comments

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I'm gonna say that Zoom isn't paying anyone to associate their brand with sentencing someone to the death penalty.

Zoom blew up as the video conferencing solution of the pandemic. And in this case they are using the product.

But ultimately it's just become the parlance for it.

Yep. Like make a Xerox of that, or I need a Kleenex or a Band-Aid

what's the "generic" term for bandaid?

Adhesive bandage.

It's incredible to me how Microsoft was able to blow that chance with Skype. Just a while ago Skype used to be the generic trademark. "I'm skyping with my girlfriend"

It looks like it really is Zoom in the screenshots (but yes if it wasn't Zoom and someone called it Zoom, I think that would be terrible).

I literally just saw a Snickers commercial that ended with, "I thought we were doing the zoom thing"

Do most people say “let me look on a search engine” or “let me Google it”?

DDG: if you can't duck it then ...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

Is that the best worst thing or the worst best thing to happen to your company?

It probably means your company was successful enough that you can retire and do whatever you like for the rest of your life. Would be a good thing for me, although probably a bad thing for the company as a whole.

I'd call it a best worst thing - one of those problems where it's bad, but the only way to have the problem is to be really successful.

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