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Ask HN: Should FAANG be renamed GAAF?
Since Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are being investigated for anti-competitive behavior, I think that the collective of big tech companies should be relabeled as GAAF.
And let’s be honest, Netflix was always an outlier in those companies — they do business in a very different way.
To mark a move into a different tech era, shall we start referring to them as GAAF?
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- mytailorisrich 6y agoIn France they usually use the acronym GAFA, which is your GAAF in a different order. Lately there is also GAFAM, with Microsoft added.
- smt88 6y agoI'll never understand why Netflix was originally included and Microsoft wasn't.
- detaro 6y agoBecause it was a stock market term describing hot tech stocks, and Microsoft wasn't hot at the time.
- smt88 6y agoThanks for clarifying! It's frustrating that it leaked out into wider usage, like in the tech industry itself. Microsoft often gets excluded in relevant discussions (e.g. privacy) as a result.
- detaro 6y agoYeah, it IMHO only makes sense to treat it as genericized term for "big tech company", not as the actual firms in the acronym.
- rvz 6y agoIf you use Alphabet instead of Google, Then it becomes: FAAAM.