The "Blood-Curdling" Name Steve Jobs Wanted for the iMac


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The "Blood-Curdling" Name Steve Jobs Wanted for the iMac

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Back in November, former TBWA\Chiat\Day creative Ken Segal said that Steve Jobs' original name for the iMac would "curdle your blood." I guessed Macternet, but according to this account, that wasn't blood-curdling enough. Jobs' alleged proposal was a lot worse:

Our sources claim that the name that Steve Jobs wanted was... MacMan. At the time, the name was being used by another company, called Midiman. They manufactured the MacMan, a serial-to-MIDI adapter with one input, three outputs, a serial passthrough switch, and MIDI indicator LEDs. According to this account, Apple came to them with an offer for the name, but Midiman's owner thought they didn't offered enough ruby rupees. He declined Apple's offer.

If this is true?and it rings real to me?I'm glad the owner declined. Just imagine if they called that bondi blob the MacMan. We would still be hearing the echoes of the worldwide laughter.

For the same reasons, I hope they don't go with Apple iSlate (Apple Is Late?). It's not as bad as MacMan, but it's almost there.

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No...really, its just a really bad name.

No...really! They would have sucessfully marketed it nonetheless. Marketing is what Apple does best!

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Our sources claim that the name that Steve Jobs wanted was... MacMan.

I fail to see what's so "blood-curdling" about that compared to many other household names today, such as "PlayStation", "Wii", "Firefox", "Microsoft", "Google" and other silly names at the time. I particularly remember how a lot of people were crying about how terrible the name "Wii" was, and now everyone uses it as if it never happened.

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I fail to see what's so "blood-curdling" about that compared to many other household names today, such as "PlayStation", "Wii", "Firefox", "Microsoft", "Google" and other silly names at the time. I particularly remember how a lot of people were crying about how terrible the name "Wii" was, and now everyone uses it as if it never happened.

I'm posting this message from my MacMan while syncing my PodMan with the fabulous TunesMan software. And while doing all this, my MacMan is also sorting all my photos in my PhotoMan library, searching my appointments made in CalMan and exporting the movie I made using MovieMan.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to call using my amazing PhoneMan.

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I'm posting this message from my MacMan while syncing my PodMan with the fabulous TunesMan software. And while doing all this, my MacMan is also sorting all my photos in my PhotoMan library, searching my appointments made in CalMan and exporting the movie I made using MovieMan.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to call using my amazing PhoneMan.

If that were the current devices and softwares names by Apple, it would've been a FailMan!

Its just a bad name.

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I'm posting this message from my MacMan while syncing my PodMan with the fabulous TunesMan software. And while doing all this, my MacMan is also sorting all my photos in my PhotoMan library, searching my appointments made in CalMan and exporting the movie I made using MovieMan.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to call using my amazing PhoneMan.

That would've gone down well with the feminists.

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I'm posting this message from my MacMan while syncing my PodMan with the fabulous TunesMan software. And while doing all this, my MacMan is also sorting all my photos in my PhotoMan library, searching my appointments made in CalMan and exporting the movie I made using MovieMan.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to call using my amazing PhoneMan.

Ha! Being an Apple fanboy would be like playing a Megaman game.

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I'm posting this message from my MacMan while syncing my PodMan with the fabulous TunesMan software. And while doing all this, my MacMan is also sorting all my photos in my PhotoMan library, searching my appointments made in CalMan and exporting the movie I made using MovieMan.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to call using my amazing PhoneMan.

And if all those names had been real, no one would have been bitching about it, just like no one is bitching about "Wii" anymore.

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Sounds pretty funky, but in a world where Google, Twitter, Facebook and Wii are considered normal household names, it wouldn't bat an eyelid.

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