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And yet the dumbest name of all, the gold medalist of low-IQ nomenclature itself (Whatsapp) is literally more popular than telephones.
Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.
For me it oozes cringey 2010-era hype about this newfangled buzzword "app", which also doesn't even rhyme with "up" except to the obviously non-native developers who clearly thought it did. Etc. We will agree to disagree!
Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it's like the word "app" is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app's purpose - there's an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!
But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn't name it iWhatsApp, then we'd agree and be big mad