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How do you feel about Apple, Blackberry, Budget or Shell?
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I think Apple would be a terrible thing to name your new project.

This supports my intuition that its not a good idea, although I suspect you meant to demonstrate something else.

Lets clarify something. Generic names aren’t inherently bad. What Im trying to evaluate is how bad it is for any given person to use a generic name for their new project. When its been used 20 times before and you aren’t going to be a billion dollar company.

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My issue is that yogurt is a complement to granola, not a replacement.
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I know nothing about these projects, but that was my thought too. I was just checking the comments just to see if I was only one who thought that or if there was some clever context I was missing.
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As a consumer it doesn't bother me at all and probably the same if I were a provider.

Also somewhat off topic - I've been getting a ton of spam calls now that I've put my phone number on my google business profile. They are robo calls with essentially the same text: "Don't hang up" and "Please stay on the line".

My question is: Could we use these same technologies to build an app to detect certain strings and just hand up? Or on my behalf, press 1 and when the scammer - i mean operator - picks up say "Fuck off"????

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I mean as a developer.
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