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I bet someone in marketing at Canonical shit their pants watching the WWDC yesterday.
by infra178 12y ago
I bet someone in marketing at Canonical shit their pants watching the WWDC yesterday.
- evand 12y agoEr, why? Apple stopped caring about the cloud and traditional server market a while back.
- cwyers 12y agoBecause Apple used the word Metal to name one of their new APIs?
- michaelbuckbee 12y agoApple's new Graphics API is called 'Metal'.
- emeidi 12y agoDid Apple present Cloud Services yesterday aside of the Dropbox clone (iCloud Drive)?
- Gracana 12y agoI don't think there is likely to be much confusion. Looks like this would be called "MAAS" or "Metal as a Service," never just "Metal."
- iLoch 12y agoTBH I thought this was announcing cloud based graphics rendering until I saw the Ubuntu domain.
- jseutter 12y agoIf you're referring to the use of Metal in the name, I doubt it. It is a different market. Canonical isn't out to make millions from a highly focused tool that gets a large amount of its value from being free for anyone to use, forever. A similar situation happened when Apple adopted the name Launchpad for one of their services.
- rca 12y agoThe OP might have stumbled upon this while searching the web for apple's metal, if that's the case it shows that the naming collision could be a good way to have people discover the product unexpectedly.
- noel82 12y agoAt first sight I really thought it was somehow related to Apple..