>>Amazing… compression technology or just another commercial competition craving?
>>If this continues this way we will all end up saving & listening a million songs into/from a penny. What’s next?
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>Shouldn't they rename it to "WalkPerson" for the US market?
Hehe, the eternal problem of political correctness.
Perhaps you heard of the case of authorities in L.A., I think it was, who politely asked computer makers to stop using offensive terms like "master / slave".
In some cases, investigating a potential market BEFORE promoting a product name might potentially save a company millions of dollars. Mitsubishi launched a car named "Pajero" - when it came to Latin America, they found out that the name wasn't very appropriate here. ("Pajero" being slang for "masturbator"). So they had to re-launch it, with the name of "Montero".
Something almost identical happened with another car maker, who sold a model called "Lacrosse"; the problem, in this case, appeared in French-speaking Canada.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
