On marketing, and a thanks to Apple's department

When I first read the Boot Camp blurbs yesterday, I thought people were talking about one of those Cocoa programming Boot Camps they have occasionally. I thought the enthusiasm was a bit high for a Xcode programming seminar.

Well somebody above brought it up, but i-BM would be a funny name. It would be a triple entendre... It's iBM because it does the whole PC OS kind of thing (though nobody I know calls them IBM compatibles anymore). It would be BM for boot manager. And it would also BM for the stuff one does, sitting on the toilet.

Well, for one thing, there's already a product called iBoot.
http://www.dataprobe.com/power/iboot.html

But I agree, it'd be a suck name for Windows-on-Mac.

-systemsboy

why not...

iWIN or weWIN for that matter.

Shane

On the other hand, It's not iOSX or iTiger or iLeopard either.

The should call it iDontKnowWhyButHereYouGo

You say "a good thing" with emphasis on good, as if thats the only good thing about the software.. What seems to be the problem?

... or iBMCompatible for that matter.
Could be worse. If Microsoft's marketing department named it, they would have called it "Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4.6 Microsoft Windows Compatible Dual-Boot Edition featuring Boot Camp" (or AMOSXMWCDBEFBC for short).

They may not have called it iBoot, but if you look at their page for Boot Camp, it notes: "Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today."

Its not too late for them to call it iBoot...

I think a better name would be iCrash.

Or, iOpen your computer up to all kinds of nasty viruses, malware, and spyware