What’s In A Name? Who Owns “nano?”

Leave it to Apple to figure out a way to be controversial, if not original. The iPod sounds original to me. The last ‘pod’ I remember was ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers.’

How about ‘nano?’ Uh oh. Looks like trouble brewing in Appledom.

Why? What’s wrong with ‘nano?’ Doesn’t it mean, like, really, really small, or something? How small does a portable music player have to be before it becomes ‘nano small?’

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