Next generation Macs don’t want to be Pontiacs
Apple doesn't take naming issues very
lightly. This time the conundrum concerns the naming of the next CPU product line; after G3, G4 and G5, one might expect the G6 processor line to hit the streets next.
Unfortunately, the moniker has already been nabbed by Pontiac for their G6
"Oprah Car."
Association with Oprah aside, I know I sure as hell wouldn't classify any precision Macintosh machine as being in the same class as a Pontiac (I would have been the Oprah audience member to complain about getting a free car: "What?! A
Pontiac?! This is outrageous! I'll have to trade it in."). So what is Apple to do? Abandon the "G" line altogether?
It's a shame – it's a nice letter, has really got a ring to it. G5. It sounds so nice, like a computer might naturally be named that. The 'P6' just wouldn't cut it for me.
Or maybe they can take after Netscape and just skip a whole version and pretend nobody will notice. Bring on the G7,
Apple! Or wait – considering that everybody,
their momma and
their sister too are giving away free iPods, Apple should run a free iPod contest for coming up with the best new name. Any ideas?