Sunday, December 17, 2006 |
22:28 - Simpsons did it!
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2006/december#sun-17-xplayer_whatever
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How much you want to bet that Microsoft was all set to call the Zune the "X-Player", right up until Steve said this? And then they had to change it?
Yeah, I know: facetious. But the thought did cross my mind.
UPDATE: Evariste has a theory:
ActiveX, DirectX, XNA, .docx, Xbox, ...Microsoft loves the letter X to the Xtreem.. I think they thought "we'll tie it in with Xbox and call it Xune, as in iTunes". Then they worried people might not know how to pronounce it, so "Xune" becomes "Zune".
That hadn't even occurred to me, but it makes perfect sense.
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