A gizmo is a gadget, yes. But a gadget or a gizmo could be junk or not junk. There's no association with junk.
Agreed. But I'm in 'murica. So, you know.
I don't think either name is
particularly bad. I think Gizmo though is so generic that it doesn't tell you anything at all, and isn't a particularly good in a marketing sense either. The first thing I think of isn't even a gadget, but
this instead, but perhaps I'm of a certain age.
Either way, I think time has proved out that mobile device support is a big part of JRiver's business now, so it makes sense for it to have more of a "buttoned down" name. Gizmo seems like a "check out what we're playing around with" name. If it was just a feature, like Carnac, then I'm all for the clever names. They give you charm (I'm still right about Hairstyle though). But the name is such an important part of visibility on the App Stores (ugh,
say that in Marco's "brands voice")... I don't know.
JRemote is a good name, I think. It refers to JRiver obviously and in a clever way. It does function as a "remote control" for MC, and so that's part of the name. But, I also think of it as though it accesses Media Center "remotely" so it works in that way too. It is both my JRiver remote and my remote JRiver, I guess is what I'm saying. And, I think it has a respected following, particularly among the Mac users and other parts of the community. I don't own and haven't heavily used Gizmo on any Android player anytime recently, so I can't really speak to the "respect" it has there. It can do video, so that's pretty nice. So, perhaps that last bit is a wash, perhaps not. Either way, I like the
name JRemote better than Gizmo.