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by Ellipsis753 4717 days ago
Personally I would think that FaceTime and FaceCash were made by Facebook Inc. (As I had actually never heard of either of those). I also thought that Star Trek and Star Wars were related or the same thing for most of my childhood. I didn't want Star Wars because I'd seen Star Trek on TV and not liked it (I was young).

It's just something people do (or at least I do). I think it's maddness to prevent the use of names starting with "Face" because of this confusion. I thought that iPlayer was apple related like iTunes for a long time. It's confusing yes but I don't feel you should be able to prevent someone using a similar sounding name.