Or a spreadsheet program and calling it Excel.
Or outlook, access…
The name doesn’t matter if you can establish it.
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.
sugartits@lemmy.world 8 months ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No, their point isn’t that it’s a weird name that doesn’t line up with 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 or Google called a new camera app iTunes.
Minus the trademark infringement I guess.
kautau@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even worse is that it’s close enough.
Like “recur by specific days but not by months cron”
Is a valid search for both things. Only one came out in 1975 and has had that name forever, and one decided it would be cool to hijack it
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
They renamed it Notion calendar, but Cron had pretty solid SEO. I much preferred its old name and theme.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
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 USPS shows up.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The command line cron is used for scheduling tasks, so it seems reasonable that the search results could get muddled.