9 марта 2012 г. 8:50 пользователь TreKing <[email protected]> написал:
> Not to mention that this app, store, site, center, whatever, is supposed to
> be a thing (the app) or a destination / place (the site). Naming it after a
> verb is just awkward and nonsensical. Particularly when the name implies
> that the app / site is some kind of media center that plays all of this
> different content, when it's not - it's a store to get content NOT play it.

Maybe it's meant to be?

Google's making a play to conquer the mobile content market?

> And now they're trying to shoehorn "Play" into their promotions: "Play $0.49
> Apps" ... "Play the Hunger Games" followed immediately by "Read the
> books..."

Play an email application... Play a to-do list... Play a medical first
aid app...

>
> Seriously, who comes up with this sh*t?

A committee of highly paid consultants, no doubt :)

Seriously, though:

"The Society of the Spectacle" was written in the sixties, now, almost
50 years later, it's The Society of Games and Playing :)

-- K

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