"Well, Timmy, daddy puts his dongle into mommy's vingle...and nine months later you have a little brother!"
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Apple Trademarks 'Vingle'
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This has to be one of the most funny threads I've read in a long time. It's great to see how we can all joke around and have a good time like everyday buddies, even though we're all around the world.
I still cannot help think that it is a virtual chat room for singles. Apple style.
I would like to see Jobs deliver that at a massive media event.
Ya baby lets vingle tonite!
I would like to see Jobs deliver that at a massive media event.
Ya baby lets vingle tonite!
Snoop Dog language doesn't come to mind when I hear Vingle, Yiddish does.
Oy vey! Vas is dos? Dere's dis yingl (boy) zinging about de Vingle. Gott in himmel (heaven)!
So, my guess, is that a "Vingle" will be an iTunes single of Klezmer music. Clarinets and accordions until you plotz!
Oy vey! Vas is dos? Dere's dis yingl (boy) zinging about de Vingle. Gott in himmel (heaven)!
So, my guess, is that a "Vingle" will be an iTunes single of Klezmer music. Clarinets and accordions until you plotz!
Yeah, it's "video single" and sadly, Apple aren't the first to use it. In fact, I already formulated a plan to deal with it some months ago.nure11 said:
First, all people of the world are furnished with portable butane powered branding irons shaped like this word. Second, the UN adopts a resolution making it legal for all to forcefully apply said brand to the tongue of anyone who dares utter the word. Problem solved!
My sincere hope is that Apple have registered this word in an attempt to remove it from circulation. Regrettably, they would be forced to use it, and heavily, to make the legal avenue stick. All considered, the situation is dire enough that sacrificing Apple to the cause would be an acceptable compromise.
John Jacob Vingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name too!
Good thing Apple snapped this one up before some other company got it
What would a "video single" be anyway? A video taken separately from... the group of videos it normally goes with?
PS, if you've ever had trouble imagining the sound of one hand clapping, just imagine if this past Wednesday Steve Jobs had gone on stage with nothing to present except... Vingle!
His name is my name too!
Good thing Apple snapped this one up before some other company got it
What would a "video single" be anyway? A video taken separately from... the group of videos it normally goes with?
PS, if you've ever had trouble imagining the sound of one hand clapping, just imagine if this past Wednesday Steve Jobs had gone on stage with nothing to present except... Vingle!
A vingle is the same old music video format we've all come to know, and this execrable term is one that some people have been using to describe those videos when they are offered individually for sale (as now seen on iTMS).nagromme said:What would a "video single" be anyway? A video taken separately from... the group of videos it normally goes with?
The idea is to separate videos shown for promotional purposes from those offered as products in their own right. It's sort of the same way radio spins are measured separately from record sales.
Chaszmyr said:I think they did hit a low with Bonjour, Vingle isn't nearly as bad
not because you cannot pronounce it, that it means it is a new low
because Apple used rendezvous wrongly, they had to choose another one, which "sounds" the same or would identify with "rendezvous".
bonjour = i think it means "good day" or "good morning" (correct me if i am wrong)
Whyren said:
My thoughts exactly. Let's hope this is not some fairy based help character like the terrifying paperclip in Windows.
Flowbee said:
Exactly like that
. It's not enough that he's brainwashed Nintendo into making an entire Tingle game - he is now trying to infiltrate Apple as well. 
It's a beverage.
"Vingle" is norwegian for "wineglass". As a holiday promo, you'll get a bottle of Cupertino Zinfandel together with every Mac mini sold.
"Vingle" is norwegian for "wineglass". As a holiday promo, you'll get a bottle of Cupertino Zinfandel together with every Mac mini sold.
mkrishnan said:Just when you thought Apple trademark names had hit a low with Bonjour.
No. There is room below Bonjour for the concept that was once called Rendezvous. How about "Wazzzzzuuuuupppp!" from the old beer commercials?
From Apple's web site:
Now anyone using a Windows PC can take advantage of the effortlessness of Wazzzzzuuuuupppp! for free. The Wazzzzzuuuuupppp! Setup Wizard makes setting up a printer under Windows as easy as Mac OS X (we cant make it as beautiful, unfortunately). Wazzzzzuuuuupppp! for Windows includes a plug-in for Internet Explorer, so you can setup a Wazzzzzuuuuupppp!-enabled device without knowing its IP address. You can even print to printers connected over USB to Airport Extreme Base Station or Airport Express. If youre an Open Source enthusiast, you will be able to download the Wazzzzzuuuuupppp! source code to create software for virtually any platform.
That's much worse, don't you think?
Vingle = Vibrate + Tingle
Features of the new iPod.
Jeff Goldblum voice:
"Introducing the first iPod you can make love to. Get ready to vingle"
The on stage demo would scar us all for life.
Features of the new iPod.
Jeff Goldblum voice:
"Introducing the first iPod you can make love to. Get ready to vingle"
The on stage demo would scar us all for life.
Eww...theres something I didn't need to picture.greenmonsterman said:
Oh ek yes. Definately worse! I actually like "Bonjour". Easier to spell and is still applicable to what it does!macFanDave said:
As regards this new one, it is a tad general, even for Apple's standards! It's not like we can think of an appropriate product it could be...like "Photo Booth" or "Front Row" or "Keynote" or "Pages" or "Numbers" etc etc!!
Unless its a new concept of a product no one can think of at the minute but will wonder how on earth we survived without it once it's released!
Judging from the description, Apple is going to bring us wireless internet. We'll be looking for Vingle Hotspots very soon.
"So, the 4.5G iPod nano, an iMac with a wireless keyboard, and episodes of "Everyone Loves Raymond" on the iTunes Music store. But before we go, one last thing. Today we're introducing Macs based upon the final generation of the PowerPC line. The G3 introduced... well, we're not sure, but they were kind of optimized. Anyway, moving swiftly along: the G4s made it possible for us to do multiprocessor Macs and introduced Altivec. The G5s made our machines 64 bit, and made it possible to have a front side bus that wasn't something out of nineties. And now, the sixth generation, multiple cores, low power, 64 bit CPUs... introducing the... no, not the G6, that's already trademarked, no, the VINGLE."
"Now, why Vingle? Well, first it begins with "VI", which is 6, in Roman. Then there's NG, which stands for "Next Generation", and finally there's LE, which stands for Low Energy. But that's only the way we derived the name. We thought a lot of names for this, the final CPU before our new line of Intel-based Macs comes out. Our primary purpose? To ensure people would buy the Intel based Macs and see them as an upgrade.
"We went to schools across the country, and tested names like Shmely, Poochip, Dofumac, and Slowty. We knew Vingle was right when, after testing it amongst a group of ten year olds, the slowest, most stupid kid in the class was called a "Vingle" by his classmates. Indeed, the brand exceeded our expections, with the term becoming common within hours of our original test in schools not just in the sample, but also in Britain, Japan, and the Congo.
"All over the world, as if by magic, Vingle became the byword for "Not as good as Intel, you should buy an Intel Mac if they've come out". And that was our #1 aim.
"So, introducing our final range of PowerMacs. There's the PowerMac Vingle 1000. It costs just $1,999, has sixteen cores on each of its twin 4GHz Vingle CPUs, with a 1:1 ratio 4GHz FSB. Wow. If you have to buy a PowerMac today, I'd get this one. But don't forget the Pentium based Macs coming out next year, for the same price you'll be able to get a Pentium 166MMX based Mac. Pentium. Sounds so much better, right? Mmmmm Pentiums...
(...etc...)
"Now, why Vingle? Well, first it begins with "VI", which is 6, in Roman. Then there's NG, which stands for "Next Generation", and finally there's LE, which stands for Low Energy. But that's only the way we derived the name. We thought a lot of names for this, the final CPU before our new line of Intel-based Macs comes out. Our primary purpose? To ensure people would buy the Intel based Macs and see them as an upgrade.
"We went to schools across the country, and tested names like Shmely, Poochip, Dofumac, and Slowty. We knew Vingle was right when, after testing it amongst a group of ten year olds, the slowest, most stupid kid in the class was called a "Vingle" by his classmates. Indeed, the brand exceeded our expections, with the term becoming common within hours of our original test in schools not just in the sample, but also in Britain, Japan, and the Congo.
"All over the world, as if by magic, Vingle became the byword for "Not as good as Intel, you should buy an Intel Mac if they've come out". And that was our #1 aim.
"So, introducing our final range of PowerMacs. There's the PowerMac Vingle 1000. It costs just $1,999, has sixteen cores on each of its twin 4GHz Vingle CPUs, with a 1:1 ratio 4GHz FSB. Wow. If you have to buy a PowerMac today, I'd get this one. But don't forget the Pentium based Macs coming out next year, for the same price you'll be able to get a Pentium 166MMX based Mac. Pentium. Sounds so much better, right? Mmmmm Pentiums...
(...etc...)
I remember a few years ago people thought "Google" was a weird name.
snippet from the patent office :
IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Education; providing of training; entertainment; sporting and cultural activities; providing on-line facilities, via a global computer network, to enable users to program audio, video, text and other multimedia content, including music, concerts, videos, radio, television, news, sports, games, cultural events, and entertainment-related programs..
IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: providing search engines for obtaining data via communications and computer networks; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software to enable users to program audio, video, text and other multimedia content, including music, concerts, videos, radio, television, news, sports, games, cultural events, and entertainment-related programs; internet services, namely, creating indexes of information, sites and other resources available on communications and computer networks for others; searching, browsing and retrieving information, sites, and other resources available on communications and computer networks for others
Sounds like a new .Mac to me.
snippet from the patent office :
IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Education; providing of training; entertainment; sporting and cultural activities; providing on-line facilities, via a global computer network, to enable users to program audio, video, text and other multimedia content, including music, concerts, videos, radio, television, news, sports, games, cultural events, and entertainment-related programs..
IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: providing search engines for obtaining data via communications and computer networks; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software to enable users to program audio, video, text and other multimedia content, including music, concerts, videos, radio, television, news, sports, games, cultural events, and entertainment-related programs; internet services, namely, creating indexes of information, sites and other resources available on communications and computer networks for others; searching, browsing and retrieving information, sites, and other resources available on communications and computer networks for others
Sounds like a new .Mac to me.