At 8:08 AM -0400 9/6/10, Arno Hautala wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 05:50, David Cake <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The point is that it makes both things much less useful as
>> search terms. Got a problem with ssl on your iphone? Google ios ssl
>> and there are already 294,000 search responses, all of which are
>> wrong.
>
>Your average user isn't going to even know that it's called iOS.
>They're going to search for "iPhone ssl" or more likely "Why doesn't
>my apple phone work?".
>And anyone knowledgeable enough to know to search for "iOS SSL" is
>going to be smart enough to search for "iOS SSL Apple" or "iOS SSL
>iPhone".
>I give it about a week or less, once the iOS is actually shipping,
>before it's the Cisco users that are having an issue with searching.
>And I bet they'll know to add "Cisco" as well.
>
>>> Dont read so much into the name from that angle And i can
>>>guarantee the general public has no clue or cares. The keynote was
>>>about what it had to be to combat google and the press.
>>
>> The keynote was to developers. They can cope with naming the OS
>> something that uniquely identifies it.
>
>The keynote may have been "for developers" (I'd argue that point as
>well), but you're fooling yourself if you think developers were
>anywhere near the top of the list in addressing concerns with
>assigning a new name for the OS.
First you argue that users will have no idea that its called
iOS. Then you argue that they don't care what developers think about
the name. If users AND developers are both irrelevant in your
opinion, exactly who does matter?
Cheers
David
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