13 pages of people being outraged by what to me seems a tongue in cheek remark. And where does political correctness come into all this?
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Apple Marketing Chief Phil Schiller: 'One Need Never Pluralize Apple Product Names'
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You are entitled to your opinion of course, but you seem to have a different opinion to 90% of the comments in this thread. So perhaps you should review your own sanity instead? I fail to see how anyone is meant to take it any other way apart from a corporate executive telling you how to (incorrectly) pronounce their products in conversation.
Although as you yourself above state you're a shareholder in Apple stock, it is certainly in your personal best interest to totally agree with every single thing Apple does and never be critical of them. It also makes your opinions potentially rather biased.
Oh thank God for clearing this up, maybe now I can finally catch some sleep at night. "Three Phil Schiller executives", Yay.
Good question. Any answer from the crack MR journalist?
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Very well said. I hope it's noticed.
90% of the thread are just digs/jokes at Phil/Apple (or MR) basically and not much more.
If you really want to get to brass tacks, the bulletproof wording is "Apple Watch devices."
However, "Apple Watch" is very grey-zone trademarked term since it is descriptive. "Apple" is the trademarked word. While "Watch" is the descriptive item arguably with no trademark.
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No necessarily, I have seen many stockholder rebellions against executives and the board of a publicly held company.
It usually occurs when the execs and boards is making out better than the stockholders. A lot of SEC due diligence enforcement involves the stockholders collectively doing as well as those running the company in terms of shares and participation. In fact, when a board or exec does well while the stockholder take a nosedive is an old money move going back to the smoke filled rooms of the Teddy Roosevelt administration.
The Spindlier years were full of pure chaos at stock holder meetings where the CEO was just an accountant from Sculley's time without any forward vision nor contributed company momentum.
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90% Yes, it does feel like I'm visiting the psych ward. And no, it's certainly not in my best interest to agree with everything Apple does. The logic you're trying to use seems to be to follow the majority's view. And when compare my opinions to the majority, I must seem, indeed, insane.
There are legal reasons, context and some indirect clues (like apple not following those "rules") that are clear and logical arguments. Those get ignored.
The real insanity in this is the 15 page long thread I'm in about a tweet. A TWEET. Yes, I'm now convinced you're right; were all insane.
(I did get carried away lol, had fun tho)
How many random things does any person think through it the day? Rhetorical question.
There is a Sir Mix-a-lot parody in that phrase somewhere.
"Becca, just look at her smartphone, it's an iPhone."
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"You know those iPhone users ..."
I think you are right.
iPhones Plus, iPads pro etc seem wrong to me.
But for example I'd say "we have several iMacs in our office", "me and my wife have two iPhones" and so on.
When talking about the lineup I think it is right to say "let's talk about the Mac" instead of "talk about the Macs".
He isn't wrong... Technically. It is a proper noun after all.
But that hasn't stopped us from adding an s onto Grammy and making it Grammys. Or Oscars. And so on. As long as the proper noun remains fully in tact - ie, Grammies is incorrect since the proper noun is altered - it is acceptable English both in print and speech, even if it would get tagged by your English teacher for being "improper" English... The conversational language often does, and should, take precedence over the text book.
And asking for anything to change when you've used such basic terms for your devices, which is brilliant marketing, such as phone and pad... You really aren't going to stop pluralization on that level... We've always referred to multiples of these as phones or pads, pre-dating these devices and even form factor. So your proper noun puritanism is going to fail here, bud.
But that hasn't stopped us from adding an s onto Grammy and making it Grammys. Or Oscars. And so on. As long as the proper noun remains fully in tact - ie, Grammies is incorrect since the proper noun is altered - it is acceptable English both in print and speech, even if it would get tagged by your English teacher for being "improper" English... The conversational language often does, and should, take precedence over the text book.
And asking for anything to change when you've used such basic terms for your devices, which is brilliant marketing, such as phone and pad... You really aren't going to stop pluralization on that level... We've always referred to multiples of these as phones or pads, pre-dating these devices and even form factor. So your proper noun puritanism is going to fail here, bud.
Some Apples come with nuts. The crazy ones.
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I know I know, no one cares. Carry on.
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I never liked that word(iTouch) but I love it when people post that word on this forum and pretend they are ignorant to its history.
I know I know, no one cares. Carry on.
Keep in mind, you can have one iSnob or a whole group of iSnob. If you prefer, you can say "iSnob individuals"—either is correct.