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Isn’t the reason for the Meta name taking (some) hold just the giant push for the “Metaverse” as the future of the company? It’s not like Alphabet is doing any
by biztos 4y ago
Isn’t the reason for the Meta name taking (some) hold just the giant push for the “Metaverse” as the future of the company?
It’s not like Alphabet is doing anything… alphabetical. And if they did they’d call it Google Spelling anyway.
- strulovich 4y agoMeta really tries to have the new name replace the old in many contexts: when you start any of the apps it say “from Meta”, the Oculus Quest is now the Meta quest, the stock symbol changed, etc. Alphabet is really a holding company and not a brand. If I open Google.com I don’t see any mention of alphabet. I can’t even imagine how their logo looks like. (Meta/Facebook employee, but I don’t have any knowledge of this besides public stuff)
- QuarterReptile 4y agoIf they called it Google Spelling, that would be our signal that it would be killed off in 18 months.
- hnfong 4y agoIt was a pun on "alpha"(the investment/speculation term)-"bets". The original idea is that the Google founders would use Alphabet as holding company for their "alpha-bets", but apparently since Pichai took over of Alphabet as well this venture is probably also "Killed by Google"...