Bit dissapointing that this anouncement was just lost in the middle of this thread, for such a big topic and long awaited announcement it should have been at the top of the forum for everyone to see and talk about. Instead it kinda just died and got burried here straight away.
Also the notice “This topic has been solved, only reply if…” really discourages conversion about it.
Unfortunately my first impression is having the two names will cause confusion. When talking with people do I talk about /e/OS or Murena phones. Maybe I dont understand it yet.
I’m just going to continue calling it E until I do get my head around it. Whats e?
Its a mobile OS. Where do you find e?
e.foundation
When talking about Apple devices, I refer to “iPhones” if I am talking about the devices, and “iOS” if I am talking about the Operating System and the apps that run under it. Most people I talk to don’t get confused
Yeh I think I just need time to let the change sink in and come at it with a fresh mind.
As a native english speaker Murena sounds nice, rolls off the tongue easy, and is just a nice sounding name regardless of if there is a fish by that name. I’ve never heard of it.
Some of the users mentioned we had not made a formal announcement of the brand name …I have created one now which is not much different from what is already mentioned here.
We are slowly making the changes across website and channels. As the /e/ name has been with us for more than 2 years it will take some time to get the brand name in place. Murena as some of you correctly mentioned is nearer to the original eelo or take on eel . Also it is easy to remember and use in a conversation! The brand identity showing up in web searches will take some time as this news will take some to spread around the web.
I noticed the use of the Greek letters Xi and Lambda in the Twitter handle. Be careful that you don’t get accused of cultural appropriation. People can be sensitive of such things. One might pronounce it “Murchnl”, in a similar way as the Korean car “Kil”. The logo looks better though, because it has that kind of styling across all letters.
Congratulations to @Manoj and all the Murena team for all their hard work on the new name. For me, “that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”
A large number of people hated /e/, which is unpronounceable and unsearchable. They decide to keep it as the name of the OS, the foundation, and their store. Why not just rename /e/OS to something else? That would solve 99% of the problems.
There are now two names: one name for the OS and a second for the names of the phones that are still sold by esolutions. In practice, very little appears to have changed.
The E foundation and E solutions appear to have kept the “E” branding in their names. Will this be changed in the future?
As for the name, are these just syllables, or does the name mean something?
So, Who came up with this idea, and why didn’t any of the other developers step up and challenge this ? If this was a top down directive without input from others, then, maybe the project is in trouble.
Interestingly, the title of this topic currently is “A new brand name for /e/ - Murena OS” … while the OS name will be /e/OS, and the brand doesn’t have “OS” in the name.
Consistency is overrated .
But /e/OS screwed themselves from the start. In French, the letter “i” is pronounced as “e”. Thus, iOS is pronounced e-O-S. Wifi is pronounced “wee-fee” (seriously). In french you should pronounce eOS as “uh-O-S”. I think that Gael is french, so he should know this. I have been patiently waiting for him to rectify this, and he just made it worse.
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