Repl.it Teams for Education

Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by amasad on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:53PM (#26318902)

Amazing how Microsoft monopolized a generic word like "Teams". Luckily Replit has a good brand name in education, it's pretty easy to google for, and it grows mostly by word-of-mouth.

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Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by onewhonknocks on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:12PM (#26319131)

I also thought this was about Microsoft Teams TBH.

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Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by colejohnson66 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:08PM (#26319072)

Apple “monopolized” the generic fruit “apple” and no one batted an eye (except maybe the Beatles). There’s countless examples of generic words being trademarked.

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Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by jdminhbg on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:15PM (#26319164)

The difference is that "apple" is unrelated to the product space, but "teams" is not.

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Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by filoleg on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:19PM (#26319207)

I don't think the parent comment meant it as some bad evil thing. More like just a factual curiosity, sort of as "huh, damn, pretty interesting how they have managed to do it."

On a personal level, I think the Apple case is a bit different. There is no other technical product that is named Apple, and neither it is inherently the word used to describe what a product or a company does. While Teams definitely falls under the "similar enough" umbrella of words related to the function of the product.

Not that it makes any difference, and, in fact, I think it was pretty clever of MSFT to manage to make that product name work, since I was pretty skeptical of how well it was gonna work at first.

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Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by colejohnson66 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:21PM (#26319229)

> I don't think the parent comment meant it as some bad evil thing. More like just a factual curiosity, sort of as "huh, damn, pretty interesting how they have managed to do it."

Right. I read it as that too, but I see I may have come off too strong. I was agreeing with OP while mentioning that others have done it as well.

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Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by watwut on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:00PM (#26319803)

Because people like Apple software. Unlike MS Teams which I hate with passion.

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Re:Repl.it Teams for Education by trevorishere on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:04PM (#26319852)

Without adding "Replit" to my search term, I couldn't find your product on the first three page of Bing or Google in a private mode browser.

But if you have good in-roads with the edu space, this seems like less of an issue.

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