I mean that sounds pretty reasonable, could they just not think of a name that wasn’t already in prevalent use? Was the goal to be unsearchable for anyone trying to find it?
That’s like creating a reminders app and naming it task manager.
Well that’s great for them, but that also means that people searching for the cron that has had that name for 50 years are going to get irrelevant results for a calendar app.
Their point isn’t that it’s a weird name that isn’t descriptive of what the product does, their point is that cron is an already existing bit of software that does something else.
It’d be like if MS made a notes app called Steam, Google called a new camera app iTunes, or Apple rebranded Apple Music to PowerShell.
Minus the trademark infringement I guess. I doubt Cron has that.
I mean that sounds pretty reasonable, could they just not think of a name that wasn’t already in prevalent use? Was the goal to be unsearchable for anyone trying to find it?
That’s like creating a reminders app and naming it task manager.
They renamed it Notion calendar, but Cron had pretty solid SEO. I much preferred its old name and theme.
Well that’s great for them, but that also means that people searching for the cron that has had that name for 50 years are going to get irrelevant results for a calendar app.
I seriously doubt people looking for cron are going to be confused by a calendar app.
Help guys, every time I go to look up the mail command, the fucking USPS shows up.
Or a spreadsheet program and calling it Excel.
Or outlook, access…
The name doesn’t matter if you can establish it.
Their point isn’t that it’s a weird name that isn’t descriptive of what the product does, their point is that cron is an already existing bit of software that does something else.
It’d be like if MS made a notes app called Steam, Google called a new camera app iTunes, or Apple rebranded Apple Music to PowerShell.
Minus the trademark infringement I guess. I doubt Cron has that.