The whole cutesy names thing with Mac is very childish. Call a process what it is. The Photo Booth app is a perfect example of what I am say. Who needs a program that takes a picture, allows you to play around with it like being in a fun house and then email to your adolescence friends, I’ll pass.
Examples? I can make a case for cutesy Windows names, such calling a daemon a service, the cute Notepad instead of TextEdit, Active Directory instead of LDAP, Narrator for text-to-speech, and the whole horribly cutesy "My Computer" "My ..." thing.
Who needs a program that takes a picture, allows you to play around with it like being in a fun house and then email to your adolescence friends, I’ll pass.
Almost every PC web cam software comes with the ability to take still images. The iMac comes with a web cam. You piece it together.
It also takes movies, the equivalent of putting your video camera in front of you. It even integrates with IM. It's actually more advanced than the competition, for example the ability to do chroma keys without the need for a green screen behind you.
What's wrong with occasionally having fun with a computer? That's what Photo Booth is for... having fun... and sharing your creations with other friends.
What other "cutesy names" are you referring to? iWork, iMovie, iDVD, iMovie-HD, Time Machine, Safari, Keynote? Are these childish? What are they, redangus?