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.
that’s what made me do this. i have no idea why they both used the same name, and i can’t find any documents explaining the reason for the australians doing it.
Our machinations are beyond your understanding