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Formerly: Google Apps for Your Domain, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, and Google Apps for Work... A turd by any other name is still a turd. This name
by cornchips 10y ago
Formerly: Google Apps for Your Domain, Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, and Google Apps for Work...
A turd by any other name is still a turd.
This name is definitely poor; people will have trouble with "suite", short of english/french speaking countries, and even in english speaking countries, considering suite and sweet are homophones and the fairly low usage of suite.
Can anyone at google explain why the brand changes every couple years? New leadership?
- godzillabrennus 10y agoMust be new leadership or maybe too many marketing people getting a voice in product. I owned a company that was a Google reseller for a couple of years and when pitching it I would just call it gmail for your company. Brainstorm all the fancy names you want but people understand what you are talking about when you call it gmail. Microsoft even with all its flaws has never bothered to claim that a calendar is a standalone app. Actually, considering how badly they merged Sunrise into Outlook maybe they should...
- bigtones 10y agoYou're right - it's new leadership. Diane Greene.
- notatoad 10y agois it a turd though? google apps works great for me, and seems to be pretty popular as far as i can tell. what benefit is there to rebranding? i suspect you're spot on with the new leadership guess - somebody wanted to leave their mark.
- fuck_google 10y agoNo leadership?