At least Apple's Ping makes a measure of sense, as a ping is a sound, which relates to music in a sense. Bing is evocative of a child-abusing singer to me.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/09/ping-bing-apple-music.html > > Ping. Hmm, that sounds familiar. Isn't there another online service with a > similar name? Also offered by a huge technology company? That was started in > the mid-1970s? > > Ding ding ding! > > The Ping-Bing coincidence is surely one of those happenstances of this > fast-changing and multifarious world -- one in which many things occur at > once and unrelated events often appear connected. > > But isn't it tempting to think that at some point, in some Apple meeting > during which Steve Jobs and company were choosing the name for their new > social music service, some smart fellow brought up the major similarity > between the working favorite name, Ping, and blood rival Microsoft's upstart > search engine, Bing? > > And that, at that moment, Jobs paused to think, smiled, and said, "All the > better!" > > (Apple declined to comment for this post; Microsoft has not yet responded > to a request.) > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
