Have You Had Enough Nano?

When Apple introduced its iPod nano this month, the chatter was almost uniformly positive. Almost.

In nerd-dom, there was a faint but perceptible outcry about the name. Partly, this had to do with what some saw as Apple’s bullying of a company called Creative, which has an MP3 player called the Zen Nano Plus. But there was also a general sense that people have simply had it up to here with the word nano.

“It’s not about iPods, but about how abused the word nano is,” The Diva Working Mum asserted on her blog.