Hell, I'd probably buy a Zolimo Barbertron just FOR the name!
Hell, I'd probably buy a Zolimo Barbertron just FOR the name!
Even more modern company names are kinda like that... Anker, DJI, Haier, Dalian Wanda, Kagi, Vercel, Nexon, Plex, Splunk, Zyxel, Sonos, Zynga, Hulu, Etsy, Yandex...
Maybe if they just used a better random name generator with a better appreciation for English phonemes, we'd never know the difference lol.
These all started as the equivalent of Amazon brands and went legit after getting a reputation for relative quality. Anker especially
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Group
Edit: Actually, I don't think DJI and Haier were Amazon brands either. DJI was bootstrapped by a college kid's family after transitioning from selling electronic parts. Haier was in SE Asia before the US.
Anker was though. Along with Aukey, RavPower, Mpow... some of those were eventually kicked off though, I think.
Please don't use LLMs to post on here. There need to be at least a minimum of truth or facts when posting.
Lenovo - the new thing; Asus, Volvo - vaguely anatomical in English, but actually from pegasus and "I roll" in Latin; Nintendo - 任天堂 might mean something in Japanese; Samsung - 삼성/三星 "three stars" in Korean; IKEA - IK is from founder Ingvar Kamprad's initials, EA more obscurely from his home farm and village;
Anker - big and heavy "anchor", appropriate for power adapters; Kagi - means "key" in Japanese; Nexon - from Nexus, their (still running!) 1996 MMORPG; Plex - from multiplex or cineplex; Sonos - from sound; Hulu - sounds like "hula" but apparently from Mandarin; Etsy - from "etc.", implying you can find "everything else"; Yandex - Yet Another + (network) Index.
They seem to be fairly sensible names for the most part.
Back in 2000/1, I had such trouble taking them seriously, with that name and that colourful logo, I was like, whuuuut? But then I started using it and obviously it was miles ahead of everything else. That taught me a good lesson on whether you need a clever brand name or not. The product makes the brand name, not the other way around.
(These days he would probably get reported to HR.)