What's with the X?

What’s with the fascination of naming products “X” something? Is it because X is underused in words? Obsession with the X-Men comics? X-rated movie aficionados?

Dassaults xApps (xDesign, xShape, xGenerative Design) Lowercase x
SolidWorks (DimXpert, DraftXpert, FeatureXpert, FilletXpert, MateXpert, SketchXpert) Uppercase X <()>
XPLM (PLM Integration company)
Solid Edge (Xcelerator Share)
Bluebeam eXtreme edition (Ok not just x but they capitalize it)

Is this just xtreme marketing xperts that like to make xceptions to the rules to try and further xploit their customers by appearing to be xtra hip?

Xactly! UU

. . . and it’s Xceptionally annoying.

Xpletive, Xpletive,… ;;

People got bored with “i”?

The real reason is that for the most part people are quite unimaginative and afraid to be different. Even those that are trying to be different end up being exactly different like a bunch of other people.

I think one of the most glaring examples of this is in general media news. It’s amazing how “The same” news of every type is down to the words used. I remember someone put together a montage of news people saying “gravitas” in reference to Cheney during that presidential campaign. Here’s a word that has been around forever that you rarely heard and suddenly you couldn’t turn on a Top 40’s music station without hearing a quick news clip with “gravitas” said somewhere in it.

Sorry, rant over, but in reality “x” is just another one of those. Soon it will be something else. I also can’t wait for “Industry 4.0” and “ai” to die as well.

Yeah, Autodesk really jumped on that bandwagon.

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It defies xplanation and is xceptionally xhausting!

By the way, the Xcelerator Share is named that way as it is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
https://www.sw.siemens.com/en-US/digital-transformation/

Maybe they are just big fans of DMX and his song “X Gon’ Give It To Ya”!

It’s a Freudian slip referencing all the X-users of their software.

This topic gave me hope about a xFiles tab

Just think about how much of your subscription money goes to the fat salary of the marketing people that come up with all these “original” trademarks where the name says nothing about function. :unamused:

“all the cool kids are using X, so we need to get with the times and use X too.” What’s next? Pig Latin in the “What’s new”? Give them time, it will be cool again.

I’m betting on Leet speak (1337 5P34K)

3D 3XP3r13NC3 15 84D F0r Y0Ur H3417H

Aw, crap. And here I was thinking I was so edgy and trendy.
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great, now I have to go change all my p455w02ds

This marketing ploy was probably all started by GEN Xers

Ah crap…my generation is to blame.

I here I thought you were trying to identify with Gen Z…or maybe you just like naps…zzzzzz

Lucas, you may have found the true Xploitation origin. **

once you see it:
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Guilt as charged, yes, I am a GEN Xer <()>