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According
to their website, "Qlikkit will enable everyone to communicate
and collaborate through narration supported by images, animation,
and annotation". Doesn't narration mean via voice? If I told
you to go to Qlikkit.com on the web, wouldn't you naturally go
to Click It? Or if I spoke really slowly and carefully, to Click
Kit?
OK,
I know those domains are taken, so this is a clever play with
letters and if you look at it only in writing - and often enough,
you might get it. Wait till they have salesmen on the phone though:
"That's Qlikkit - Q L I K K I T". How many times a day?
How many people will lose a K or insert a C or start with a C?
Notice
also that we are not using the name here with a or an ®
symbol since they do not do so either. Just as well. There are
a number of registered trademarks for the name Clickit and Clickkit
already, in very similar (if not overlapping fields). And if one
of these trademark holders wants to protect their name, a cease
and desist letter could easily be forthcoming. After all, trademarks
that are phonetically equivalent, are judged to be identical.
So this name scores our lowest possible technical rating.
But
we do like the Q in the logo (it looks better, bigger) and the
bold lettering to try to make up for all the other problems. Pity
people would be expecting a C instead.
Try to not squint at reading the name, but watch their progress
yourself at Qlikkit.com.
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