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Nobody understood Ubuntu One. 4/11 people (P7, P9, P11, P12) thought the Me menu icon might be a close button

With silly corporate-ad-campaign-flavored names like "One" and "Me" it's no wonder.




Hear hear! Almost every company tries to inflict crap like this on users at some stage. It's a prime case of marketing trumping all other factors.


Imagine my delight trying to do some testing on VMware products for the first time yesterday, and trying to navigate this maze of meaningless names:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware#Products


Worse than that, it's bad marketing.


Agreed. There's got to be a happy medium between failures on this end of the spectrum and failures on the other. GIMP? Really?




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