I'm not an Android user, but I always had a passing interest in what the new version would be called.

While going to a numbering scheme like iOS is good for Spock, I just can't get behind yet another example of how the world of technology is becoming more boring and bland compared to the way it used to be. Often, in the name of "internationalization."

Unusual words, or novel uses of existing words, used to be part of the whole intellectual curiosity of the tech sphere.

For example, I learned about Maxwell's Demon[1] because of the Unix daemon. Today it would be called something boring like "system auto-task" that doesn't really do it justice.

It seems like the more corporate technology companies become, the more boring they become. And since tech companies influence so much of the world, they make the real world boring.

Remember when computer keyboards had red and blue and yellow keys? Modifier keys were labeled "meta," "super," and "hyper?"

And it's not just Google. Hey, Apple! Can I get the little Apple logos on my keyboard, and the light up beacon on the back of my laptop again?

Why is there this constant need within tech companies to make their products less special?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon