These days it’s Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it’s just a slightly better version of an enshittified product
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WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I’m often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about “turbo” as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy “turbo” sunglasses or “turbo” watches or “turbo” after-shave.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ben_dover@lemmy.world 2 months ago
or “plus”. still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You missed the memo!
5redie8@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plus, Ultra, Max… All superlatives have completely lost their meaning.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s a cycle… we go between those superlatives, back to “One” or straight up just the name of the product again as if its’ a relaunch or something (but really just confuses people on the internet trying to find out information about your product).
Games and movies do the latter a lot.
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Venti.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“All” superlatives? ;-)
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 months ago
Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.
GreenSofaBed@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Even now you can buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo, an electric car, so there’s no turbo in it.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Or the 00s-10s when everything has to be “HD”.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Dish Soap HD. For when you want to clean your dishes in 1080p.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
About a hundred years ago you could buy a “radio flyer”. It’s a red wagon. People don’t change.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I never made that connection.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
We need turbo smart AI.
NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry
Omgarm@lemmy.world 2 months ago
2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
HD and 3D.
marketing is so stupid. and humans are worse because apparently it works.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 10 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 months ago
Lever 2000 comes to mind.