Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by znpy on Monday April 22, 2019 @05:07PM (#19722996)

> The generic term is basically iThing.

Are you from the US? Because here in .eu "iThing" is definitely not the generic term for pretty much anything.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by nocman on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:45PM (#19724237)

Not the parent, but I am from the US. I don't know anyone who uses i{whatever} as a generic term. When they say iPhone, they mean a smartphone manufactured by Apple. When they say iPad, they mean a tablet computer manufactured by Apple, and so on.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by dragonwriter on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:51PM (#19724274)

I am also from the US, and I frequently hear (in decreasing order of dominance):

“Apple Pay” being used as a generic for “phone-based contactless payment system”, “iPad” as generic for “tablet”, and “iPhone” as generic for “smartphone”.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by mcv on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:57AM (#19729237)

Mu kids called all tablets iPads at some point, so I had to teach them the difference between iOS and Android.

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