How do they come up with the most confusing naming schemes on the planet? You would think that making it easy to identify which product is which would boost sales, or someone at least has the sanity to make it easy to understand.
(i.e. CPUs, laptop processors, USB standard, most smartphones, monitors, anything made by Sony that’s not a Playstation…)
I really only see that with electronics and mechanical parts. Maybe it’s because they just make so many slightly different variants, and the average person using the parts aren’t necessarily the ones buying and installing the parts, it’s just easier to give them a serial number instead of an easy to remember name?
It does make it harder to recommend a thing when asked. Like every time someone asks about good headphones, I have to find the random letters and numbers of what the set I have actually are to suggest them.
CPUs aren’t named after serial numbers, yet they are still confusing as all heck. Laptop processors are much worse with even more letters to choose from. Motherboards are also very weird, what’s with the superfluous “0” at the end? It’s never used for anything.
Besides those however, regular things are also terribly named. Besides headphones and smartphones which I have already mentioned, there’s also shoes, cars, door locks, light bulbs, flashlights, tablets, laptops, etc. Jeez that’s a lot, and those are just the ones on the top of my head
One of the characters in a vehicle VIN number indicates the original paint color. Ain’t that cute too?