Help the tech industry pick an interesting new letter for marketing gadgets and stuff

Help the tech industry pick an interesting new letter for marketing gadgets and stuff
In the 1990s, E ruled. Derived from “E-mail,” and hence from “electronic,” everything was e-this and e-that and e-the-other. Then I took over, encroaching on its kingdom until E was all but vanquished. This symbolic victory was well-marked when Apple killed off the eMac in favor of a new low-end iMac. Forget the “underlying reasons” given: this was vowel war. But I too is boring. BBG reader Samf writes…. I’m done with I. I’m ready for another letter. I nominate p. We could have the pPod, the pBasket, the pBrain…whatever. It’ll be fun. C’mon marketing people. iStuff is so 2006. It’s time to make with the p! Make mine a p-p-p-p-Powerbook! But what are the other choices? Not all are equally good. Y turns a name into a question, sapping it of power. Z is hopelessly unfashionable. G is just plain naughty. Q has a steeple-fingered intellectualism best left to software. X is beating the memorial plaque that commemorates the fact there was once a dead horse at this location. Vowels are the obvious choices, but A (and with it H) still bears a certain cold-war connotation. O is frivolous, evoking internet memes (oMac! oRLY?). And U is too busy invading Poland. Would a number be superior? A nonalphanumeric character, perhaps? ♭! My vote goes with a dipthong. Euphone!…

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