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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 04:07 AM EDT |
It is like seeing someone with a device with a hinged screen and
keyboard and deciding that it is a Dell laptop Apple macbook
rather than another brand.
There fixed it for you.
It is,
unfortunately, an effect of the brainwashing paid for by the corporate
advertising dollars meaning brand names have entered the language as a generic
word for the device.
How many people hoover their carpets with a Dyson
hoover?
Hoover do not make machines for Dyson, nor do Dyson make machine for
Hoover! It is [P] Correct to say "I vacuum my carpet using a Dyson vacuum
cleaner," but how many people do [say that] and how much are Hoover complaining
[over brand dilution and confusion]?
For lots of people "iPad" IS the
generic name for a tablet computer. Apple's advertising dollars are the cause
of any confusion, not the design of the iPad - their only real complaint is that
their advertising department have got the general population to equate tablet
with iPad, and so when anyone else makes and sells a tablet the population
thinks it must be an iPad.
For a while (to my shame) I thought iPlayer == mp3
player and the only mp3 player would be an Apple iPlayer. I wonder how many
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 02:47 PM EDT |
Apple claims there have been many returns of Tabs due to the
fact that they are not iPads.
I can think of several scenarios which can be reported this
way, even though the customer was not confused in the
slightest.
The first is a person looking for a tablet that can run iPad
programs, and the salesperson telling them it can. The
second is a salesperson who claims that a Tab "is as good as
an iPad". ( Of course people who believe salespeople are
justm as dumb as people who believe prostitutes when they
say "you're the best I've ever had". ) In neither case is
the customer not aware that a Tab is not an iPad.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 07:35 PM EDT |
This somewhat reminds me of a favorite line from a judgement:
if one
puts the two papers side by side I for myself would find that the two papers are
so different in every way that only a moron in a hurry would be
misled.
Morning Star Cooperative Society v Express Newspapers
Limited [1979] FSR 113
Unfortunately, I can't find an online copy of the
judgement, however there is a wikipedia page about it.
Yes, both units are
rectangular, have rounded corners, a touchscreen, etc. OTOH, one has a white
case with a big APPLE on the back while the other has a black case and a big
SAMSUNG. The home screens are totally different, etc etc. Kind of like being
confused between Coke and 7-Up.
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