When a commercial product reaches a certain level of ubiquity, it can start to take on a life of its own, becoming synonymous with its actual brand name and splintering off to be its own thing in the mind of the public. It can even overtake the product’s generic concept. We see examples of this all the time — everyone calls adhesive bandages Band-Aids, everyone calls cola Coke, and so on. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially for
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