How embarrassing will it be to have to use the word "Bonjour" in sentences when trying to help someone with their computer?! Sheesh. I can't even say it without laughing, much less a straight face.
Wasn't there an Arby's commercial where the oven mit was trying to say some french word with a "j" and kept saying 'juice' or something else instead? Maybe Apple could hire the mit out to advertise this change too?
Uggggggh ... Bonjour has to be the single worst name Apple has ever come up with ... and all it does is reinforce Apple among IT professionals as being the home of fruity white-wine sipping snobs ... I think the Bonjour name will help continue Apple's laughing stock reputation as a "serious tech" company.
Uggggggh ... Bonjour has to be the single worst name Apple has ever come up with ... and all it does is reinforce Apple among IT professionals as being the home of fruity white-wine sipping snobs ... I think the Bonjour name will help continue Apple's laughing stock reputation as a "serious tech" company.
Bonjour is an improvments on Rendevous IMHO... it stills tells you what the technology does but in a simpler way. But the guy who said 'Yo' is a genius
How about GetFreaky? Kind of opposite of what you want to happen...
Other ideas:
GetWitIt
UltraTalk (hmm sounds like Ultraman)
HyperTalk (confused with HyperThreading)
TalkEasy (sounds like for mobile phones)
iNetwork (sounds like a product not a technology)
SmoothTalk
Suave
Hey...!! Apple's new networking technology, Suave (soo-ah-vay) ....... helps your different devices and computers join and interact with each other like a coke/ecstasy-fuelled swinger's party...
Oh how fitting, not just the person, but the state - most people in this state could not figure out basic computer networking if it bit them, oh screw it, you know where this is going, particularly if you have visited Indiana.
[in the tune of Deuling Banjos]
Deer-ner-neer-neer-ner dre-neer-neer!
Hey, just because a few of us have the uncle/dad dosen't make the place all bad. Besides if you find your girlfriend at the family reunion just means you already know her family.
And to the point that you so clearly illustrated, if folks from Indiana can use this technology anyone can, so that is just another way of saying ease of use.
Hey, just because a few of us have the uncle/dad dosen't make the place all bad. Besides if you find your girlfriend at the family reunion just means you already know her family.
My first experience with Rendezvous was shortly after I installed Jaguar right after it came out. I was typing on my iBook which was connected wirelessly via AirPort to my iMac which had a printer. Previously, if I needed to print something I typed on the iBook, I'd send the file to the iMac, open it there and print it. Late one night, I was kind of bleary-eyed and not thinking straight when I asked the iBook to print and offered up the printer connceted to the iMac (courtesy of Rendezvous which figured out what I had never bothered to) and I accepted. All of a sudden I hear the printer going a few rooms away in the den and said, "How did it do that!?"
Actually, Apple could call it, "We'll Take Care of It, You Morons" and we'd still use it, 'cause it works so damn well!
Comments
Originally posted by johnq
I far prefer Yo? or Wazzup?.
I'm definitely going with Yo.
Or maybe 'Sup.
Bonjour is so... Bomb Voyage...
Personally "Menage!" sounds better to me.
Wasn't there an Arby's commercial where the oven mit was trying to say some french word with a "j" and kept saying 'juice' or something else instead? Maybe Apple could hire the mit out to advertise this change too?
Originally posted by Amorph
I'm definitely going with Yo.
Or maybe 'Sup.
I love 'sup.
Gotta do it with a single reverse nod for that proper high-school hallway effect.
Imagine a French software company calling it's networking technology "Howdy"!
Bonjour is a crap name though, terrible. OpenTalk wasn't too bad a name. Maybe for a less "techy" name got for MeetAndGreat.
Originally posted by Xool
One word: FreedomNet
Two words.
Please Apple, say siyonara to Bonjour. Merci!
Originally posted by scottylad
Uggggggh ... Bonjour has to be the single worst name Apple has ever come up with ... and all it does is reinforce Apple among IT professionals as being the home of fruity white-wine sipping snobs ... I think the Bonjour name will help continue Apple's laughing stock reputation as a "serious tech" company.
Please Apple, say siyonara to Bonjour. Merci!
How about oi!
Bonjour really sucks. I can just imagine what Francophobic fools will say about it.
Howdy would be funny, but I'm sure not take seriously by the rigid IT people of the world.
What about...
Howzitgoin
HandShake
There are many possibilities better than Bonjour
Isn't one of the main OS X designers French?
How about something jive? Holmes, player or G maybe? Sister? Brother perhaps? Or "Lets shizzle my nizzle."
Just some of the ways you can say hello.
Other ideas:
GetWitIt
UltraTalk (hmm sounds like Ultraman)
HyperTalk (confused with HyperThreading)
TalkEasy (sounds like for mobile phones)
iNetwork (sounds like a product not a technology)
SmoothTalk
Suave
Hey...!! Apple's new networking technology, Suave (soo-ah-vay) ....... helps your different devices and computers join and interact with each other like a coke/ecstasy-fuelled swinger's party...
Suahvay
Suavey... hmm sounds Jewish...
....the search continues
That would've been the best name for an App ever.
or "Que Tal"
or "Qiero TacoBell"
or... "Majana"
or maybe I'll just shut up.
Although I do like " 'ssup "
HP Printers that say "Easy set up with BONJOUR!"
People are gonna think that the printer comes with a frikken Croissant or something
That... thats just not gonna work
Originally posted by a_greer
Oh how fitting, not just the person, but the state - most people in this state could not figure out basic computer networking if it bit them, oh screw it, you know where this is going, particularly if you have visited Indiana.
[in the tune of Deuling Banjos]
Deer-ner-neer-neer-ner dre-neer-neer!
Hey, just because a few of us have the uncle/dad dosen't make the place all bad. Besides if you find your girlfriend at the family reunion just means you already know her family.
And to the point that you so clearly illustrated, if folks from Indiana can use this technology anyone can, so that is just another way of saying ease of use.
Originally posted by Brendon
Hey, just because a few of us have the uncle/dad dosen't make the place all bad. Besides if you find your girlfriend at the family reunion just means you already know her family.
OMG ROFLMAO
"How Did It Do That?"
My first experience with Rendezvous was shortly after I installed Jaguar right after it came out. I was typing on my iBook which was connected wirelessly via AirPort to my iMac which had a printer. Previously, if I needed to print something I typed on the iBook, I'd send the file to the iMac, open it there and print it. Late one night, I was kind of bleary-eyed and not thinking straight when I asked the iBook to print and offered up the printer connceted to the iMac (courtesy of Rendezvous which figured out what I had never bothered to) and I accepted. All of a sudden I hear the printer going a few rooms away in the den and said, "How did it do that!?"
Actually, Apple could call it, "We'll Take Care of It, You Morons" and we'd still use it, 'cause it works so damn well!