| ▲ | prodigycorp 5 hours ago |
| Why is google so bad at product branding and strategy? My complaint is aesthetic: why would you name your product a five-syllable word?? |
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| ▲ | xplt 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Because it's awkwardly close to the letters AGI, maybe |
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| ▲ | shwaj 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Informally, people will way “antigrav”. |
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| ▲ | hobs 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Its clearly a reference to the xkcd comic which does have mindshare. |
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| ▲ | nfw2 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Thank you for the demonstrating the reasoning that leads to these decisions. | | |
| ▲ | hobs 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This made me laugh, I assume you are calling me an old fogey and I will be glad to take it. This is why they don't let me near the marketing stuff. |
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| ▲ | paganel 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which comic would that be? Later edit: Probably this one [1], which is par for the course for Alphabet, they're, conceptually, still living in the early 2010s, when this stuff was culturally relevant. [1] https://xkcd.com/353/ | | |
| ▲ | igleria 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | well they sure seem to make product naming after going through the whole medicine cabinet too, just like the comic |
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