<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpt@canonical.com">mpt@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br> Hash: SHA1<br> <br> Hi everyone<br> <br> At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, we discussed AppCenter -- the<br> codename for a new interface for finding, installing, and removing<br> software in Ubuntu.<br> <br> Now, AppCenter has a brand name: the Ubuntu Software Store.</blockquote><div><br>Aside from the "Store" discussion, I'm more concerned about the "Software" word - isn't it a word most people never seem to use or understand, while they use apps or tools everyday? From what I can tell, the word isn't really used nor understood by anybody than techies. It was probably in use 20 years ago, but the "Ubuntu Software Store" isn't going to become the subject of a papercut in a few months to change Software to a something that wouldn't puzzle new users.<br> <br>We all seem to be copying the App Store from Apple (nothing wrong with that), but perhaps the part we should change isn't so much the first part in "App Store", but the second one? After all, both provide the same goods (Apps), while we'll be trying to differentiate on the experience (Store vs a different word).<br> <br>Loïc<br></div></div>