Growing up, portable cassette players were always called “freestyles” here. I never knew it was a marketing thing, or that some other countries also objected to the naming.

this is “original research”, which means i dicked around on the internet archive for half an hour. it may be wrong.

  • @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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    2016 days ago

    Pretty bold to name it Greenland in Greenland. Sony just out here going “Hey Greenland, buy a Sony Greenland to play your tapes on.”

    • @huppakee@feddit.nl
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      416 days ago

      There are only 50,000 people there, if they had to hire someone to think of a better name it would have become unaffordable for the average greenlander.