apples application naming sucks

notice a problem with naming applications with these following names ?
“preview”
“mail”
“address book”

and why are the following names ok you may ask ?

“ical”
“iphoto”

well any of you with googling skills when problem solving will know that when searching for programs with generic names in use elsewhere ie “mail” makes narrowing searches a right pain, because everything must then be prefixed with “os x” to find anything that actually relates and even then your search results are diluted by other items with the word mail coming in the text such as say entourage ?

truth is it would have been better if they had pre initialed them all with “i” ie “imail” “ipreview” “icontacts” etc at least it would then be searchable on for support issues without getting the silly results that such generic names deliver, but then apple doesn’t always think clearly.

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