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by Samuel_Michon 4821 days ago
Is a Dyson vacuum cleaner generic, because other companies have started making similar models?
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The design has become generic, yes. That's what generic means: "pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific."
So when everyone starts copying the design of this Facebook page, the page will become generic? I somehow doubt that’s what parent was alluding to. I read ‘generic’ as an euphemism for ‘unoriginal’, which Apple product pages definitely aren’t.