Made you read!
I promise this will not be a prolonged post about baseball players. In fact, this will not be about baseball at all.
Whilst surfing through WiMAX news, I found --yet again-- the overly-used term to describe WiMAX - WiFi on steroids.
I feel it is my duty as an editor and part-time WiMAX blogger to challenge the public to come up with something a tad more creative, perhaps innovative to describe this, er, WiFi on....<insert drug of choice>.
(For the record, I'm certainly no advocate of any drug whatsoever, which is sort of the reason for this entry today. That, and I'm just really curious as to how everyone else would describe WiMAX, if given the opportunity.)
Why is it that when we're trying to describe something as strong, or "kicked up a notch" (thanks Emeril) we grab the subject and throw it "on steroids"? Just the other day, I fell victim to this sad cliche when trying to describe the music genre of psychobilly to a friend who had never heard of it.
Me: Basically, you take some good ol' fashioned rockabilly and put it on steroids.
I should have just shut my mouth. And should have been arrested. I could have attempted to be slightly more original. Moving on...
So I decided to do a Google search for "WiFi on Steroids". Oh.Dear.
The first four:
OK. Before I end up linking for the rest of the day, let me tell you -- so far pages 1-6 all have articles that describe WiMAX as "WiFi on Steroids"....
Who originated this term? Are you out there? Are you reading this? Because it seems to me that the rest of the WiMAX reporting world is very fond of this expression.
So here is the challenge - how would you describe WiMAX? And moreso, when something more powerful than WiMAX emerges, how will we describe it then? WiMAX on steroids?
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How about "Extreme Wifi" -almost equally cliche.
Yep. There's another one to put on the cliche list.
WiFi Gone Wild?