nave@lemmy.ca to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months agoWhen a cave has better wifi than I dolemmy.caimagemessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1944arrow-down112
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minus-squareCroquettelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·9 months agoThere is a term, that I am too lazy to search, that when a brand or technology is so widespread or used, that the name of the brand or technology becomes the word used to describe anything that ressemble that brand or technology. Wi-Fi and iPads are definitely some of those.
minus-squarefoofiepie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoIs it ‘ubiquitous’?
minus-squareCroquettelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agomoosetwin in another comment said the word, generacization. But ubiquitous is always right in this case, but not the word I was looking for.
There is a term, that I am too lazy to search, that when a brand or technology is so widespread or used, that the name of the brand or technology becomes the word used to describe anything that ressemble that brand or technology.
Wi-Fi and iPads are definitely some of those.
Genericization
Thanks pal. That’s the word.
Is it ‘ubiquitous’?
moosetwin in another comment said the word, generacization.
But ubiquitous is always right in this case, but not the word I was looking for.
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Antonomasia