iWantItToStop
Posted on May 2, 2006
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iWoke up this morning and decided to browse through the latest listing on MacUpdate while downing that first, and ever so important, can of Dr. Pepper. iHadn’t been to MacUpdate in a long, long time - generally iBrowse their listings via RSS and so seldom need to actually look at the site - but this morning iWas feeling old skool so….
iBeg of the Mac development community: please stop naming your applications with the Apple-inspired “i” prefix. It’s been done, by Apple and done really quite well, and now thanks to many of you done to death a thousand times over and mostly not so well. It was cute when Apple did it, still is since they inspired it and it brands a distinct line of products, as a certain friend would say “a lifestyle platform”, but when every third freeware and shareware app does it, it smacks of lameness.
This list of iApps is from a mere two days of current MacUpdate listings:
iRob
iWorkout
iChatUSBCam
iBank
iVisualize
iRatchet
iShrink
iTunes Remote Control
iSafe
iForm
iSend
iAspect
iRNAi
Thirteen iApps in two days with no end in iSight.
Now i’M sure most of those are very fine apps and i’M sure some are even fantastic, but please stop. My Applications folder already contains (coincidentally) thirteen apps who’s name begins with lowercase “i”, it just can’t take any more.
You’re Mac developers! You’re intelligent, you’re creative, to coin a phrase you may have heard before: “think different”? Perhaps you might use a “u” or a “y” instead? They’re available:
yWorkout
uRock
(Special points to iRNAi for getting the lowercase “i” on both the front and back. u’Re Perfect, don’t ever change).
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