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> I personally think it's disingenuous because when people hear Watson they think Jeopardy and they think that somehow that technology is involved when they use any of the Watson.* products.

The use of the Watson name is a deliberate attempt to take advantage of the Jeopardy game. It's a name that has cachet, and I've seen just enough of the marketing perspective to know that marketing will push very hard to reuse a successful name.




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