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I am talking about electronic companies in general
I cant be the only one annoyed and find it confusing companies using random-order alphabets, numbers or characters for their product name right? why cant they simplify the naming scheme like Apple or Xiaomi?
Apple categories their product name first with category (iphone for phone, ipad for tablet), number to represent generation, with an optional (easy-to-understand) word/letter to denote a variation. S for incremental update, and layman words like "mini" and "Plus" to denote variation in terms of size, and "C" for budget.
Xiaomi is more complicated, but their naming scheme isn't far worse either: category (Mi/Redmi for phone, Mipad for tablet), number to represent generation, and a letter to represent the variation. They uses easy-to-understand word like 'note' to denote the product as a phablet variation.
Sony's naming convention for their Playstation console is pretty sleek and straight forward too: Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3 etc. "Slim" for slim variation.
These helps consumers to determine and tell which product to buy easier by filtering the product in order. Want the latest apple phone? Get the iphone with the larger available model number (with the S variation if there is any).
Now look at the other end of the spectrum.
Take a look at Samsung:
'Galaxy" represent everything.
The products then categorized into product type (Galaxy Tab for tablet, Galaxy Camera for camera, Gear for watch, Galaxy note for phablet with stylus, and Galaxy with a random alphabet/word for phone).
Here's where it gets much more messier:
The Galaxy (phone) series is further subdivided with randomly alphabets
From this chart, I am looking at 2 random alphabets for upper mid-range (R, A), 3 random alphabets for mid-range (E,J,W) and 2 random alphabets for low-range (Y, M). Are they expecting their consumers to do research whenever they want to buy a phone, or memorize which alphabet represents the class of the phone? They are also introducing an "O" series too in the near future.
It gets even worse when you have words as well. As a result you have these:
how can a common consumer tell which phone suits their need? How can they tell which is the latest budget phone out of these phones, an A7 or a E7? What's the difference between a Grand Prime, Core Prime or Mega 2?
Samsung isn't the only one. HTC's wiki page shows that they have a Desire L, Desire 300, Desire 7060, Desire Eye, Desire Q, Desire P etc.
Look at Nintendo with the Wii U name too.
I am sure many other electronic companies are doing this too. is it due to the companies releasing too many products with slight variations?
Here's an article which talks about this problem too
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/21/the-subtle-brilliance-of-apples-product-names/
I cant be the only one annoyed and find it confusing companies using random-order alphabets, numbers or characters for their product name right? why cant they simplify the naming scheme like Apple or Xiaomi?
Apple categories their product name first with category (iphone for phone, ipad for tablet), number to represent generation, with an optional (easy-to-understand) word/letter to denote a variation. S for incremental update, and layman words like "mini" and "Plus" to denote variation in terms of size, and "C" for budget.
Xiaomi is more complicated, but their naming scheme isn't far worse either: category (Mi/Redmi for phone, Mipad for tablet), number to represent generation, and a letter to represent the variation. They uses easy-to-understand word like 'note' to denote the product as a phablet variation.
Sony's naming convention for their Playstation console is pretty sleek and straight forward too: Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3 etc. "Slim" for slim variation.
These helps consumers to determine and tell which product to buy easier by filtering the product in order. Want the latest apple phone? Get the iphone with the larger available model number (with the S variation if there is any).
Now look at the other end of the spectrum.
Take a look at Samsung:
'Galaxy" represent everything.
The products then categorized into product type (Galaxy Tab for tablet, Galaxy Camera for camera, Gear for watch, Galaxy note for phablet with stylus, and Galaxy with a random alphabet/word for phone).
Here's where it gets much more messier:
The Galaxy (phone) series is further subdivided with randomly alphabets
From this chart, I am looking at 2 random alphabets for upper mid-range (R, A), 3 random alphabets for mid-range (E,J,W) and 2 random alphabets for low-range (Y, M). Are they expecting their consumers to do research whenever they want to buy a phone, or memorize which alphabet represents the class of the phone? They are also introducing an "O" series too in the near future.
It gets even worse when you have words as well. As a result you have these:
how can a common consumer tell which phone suits their need? How can they tell which is the latest budget phone out of these phones, an A7 or a E7? What's the difference between a Grand Prime, Core Prime or Mega 2?
Samsung isn't the only one. HTC's wiki page shows that they have a Desire L, Desire 300, Desire 7060, Desire Eye, Desire Q, Desire P etc.
Look at Nintendo with the Wii U name too.
I am sure many other electronic companies are doing this too. is it due to the companies releasing too many products with slight variations?
Here's an article which talks about this problem too
http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/21/the-subtle-brilliance-of-apples-product-names/