iPhone is a terrible Product Name
I'm presuming that the iPhone is not being used for phone calls by the majority of today's users.
What should Ive and Jobs have named it to make sense in in the 202x's and onwards ?
What should Ive and Jobs have named it to make sense in in the 202x's and onwards ?
Those things we carry around were called phones, because they were invented to make phone calls. They evolved into so much more, but the thing you carry around is still called a phone.
Jobs introduced it as 3 devices in one, a phone, a music player, and an internet browser. Should he have called it iBrowse or iMusic?
This morphing of meaning is part of language - Facebook is not a book, and is mostly not face's. Should it me called something else?
Entemology is the study of insects.
As for “phone” calls, all modern telephony is predicated upon mechanisms for packet transfer, so the moniker no less applies now than it did then.
And then there's the $123.9 billion in revenue they just reported last week. Seems like the name isn't that terrible...
I mean a lot of us work from home, cook from home, and exercise from home. We don't call it the GymKitchenOffice