3rd October 2003, 11:11 AM
In case you weren't aware, companies hate it when their brand names become household as well. It makes it VERY hard to get them to buy the brand name when everyone calls them "band-aids". I learned about this in an economy class I took. The company gets to the point where it's hard to let people know their product even exists in a way as to get them to buy THEIR brand. People hearn a commercial for band-aid brand (now they have to add "brand" to the end to make sure they know) and the people go to the store, say "don't forget some band-aids", and they pick up some other brand of adhesive medicative strips (adhesive strips? That's just tape!). Companies HATE it, so they try very hard these days to distinguish their brand, usually by mentioning what they should generally be called in the commercial. Nintendo just barely escaped this fate when all the old people who called all video games "Nintendo games" died or something. Had that stuck, Nintendo would advertise their Nintendo games, and people would say "yeah, let's get a Nintendo... How about an XBox?".
In other words, it's no evil conspiracy against the little guy. It's an unfortunate marketting negative for the big guy!
Oh, what is that actually from anyway? Is it a quote from an idiot?
In other words, it's no evil conspiracy against the little guy. It's an unfortunate marketting negative for the big guy!
Oh, what is that actually from anyway? Is it a quote from an idiot?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)