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X by Google, X by Twitter, X by X. Terrible branding on all sides and I am so not interested in any of this bullshit.
by scblock 3y ago
X by Google, X by Twitter, X by X. Terrible branding on all sides and I am so not interested in any of this bullshit.
- aerodog 3y ago[flagged]
- intelVISA 3y agoMission successful...
- iopq 3y agoI commented on Reddit's latest moves, downloaded their app just to use it for a while and give it a bad review. Deleted the app and haven't gone there in a while Just because you comment on something doesn't mean you'll use it
- kspacewalk2 3y agoGod that thing is fucking terrible. You can't change font size? But what if I don't like to read walls of tiny text? And what the hell is with the video playback UI? I want to see comments under a video post, why do you take me to full-screen video playback no matter what I do? About 50% of the time I manage to tap something somewhere which makes it work on 3rd try, but I wish that percentage was higher.
- larvaetron 3y agoHeaven forbid someone should type out a comment to voice their disinterest about something.
- dpifke 3y agoLow-effort comments are against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's possible to voice disinterest in a thoughtful and substantive way. The GP comment (and arguably your reply) does not.
- Rexogamer 3y agoTheir comments seem fine to me? They pretty clearly explained the reason for their dislike of the name - if anything, their ability to do so concisely should be praised
- dpifke 3y agoI guess I find the name collision with Google X—quoting the guidelines again—to be "too common to be interesting." But one man's pithy is another's snarky, so to each their own.
- postmortembees 3y agoHaving a critique of a thing is orthogonal to being interested in the thing. There are plenty of topics I find fun to engage in dialog about, despite having no interest in the topic itself. We, as humans, seem to generally enjoy being a part of the zeitgeist, being swept away with whatever the latest fascination is, even if we aren't interested in the actual topic. And that's ok. We are allowed to enjoy that social experience on both the micro ("all my friends are getting really into houseplants, I will too!") and the macro ("lol, Elon Musk is an unbelievable idiot") scale.
- roland35 3y agoLet's see if anyone is still commenting in a few years!
- micromacrofoot 3y agoThis is not the same as "lol logo is bad" and "all news is good news" there's a legitimate case for confusion across these companies
- nehal3m 3y ago"We should improve society somewhat." "Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoScrolling down, this looks like Google's X.
- ongy 3y agoIt is.
- gre 3y agotake a dramamine before scrolling down
- fieryskiff11 3y ago> scrolling down There are resources available. https://www.healthline.com/health/suicide-and-suicidal-behavior https://www.healthline.com/health/suicide-and-suicidal-behav...
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- a-dub 3y agomac os x 10 is actually a pretty special number
- soco 3y agoAm I the only one thinking of that picture of ten roman legionaries, captioned "The X Men"?
- a-dub 3y agoten fingers, ten toes, base ten arabic numbers
- ourmandave 3y agoFor me, the 90's X-Men theme doesn't work in the movie 300.
- omoikane 3y agoI suspect the "X" branding for these companies has less to do with Roman numerals and more to do with the prominent use of "X" in mathematics as a unknown variable, and that's due to René Descartes according to: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/8109/why-are-x-and-y-commonly-used-as-mathematical-placeholders https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/8109/why-are-x-and-y...
- orls 3y agoThere’s also a history of using ‘X’ as the designation for eXperimental planes, e.g the X-15. I always assumed that was the inspiration for the use in tech branding like Google X - conjuring up images of skunkworks, etc.
- a-dub 3y agohmm: mac os: numeral generation: variable google: eXperimental! malcom: variable elon: hey yo, check it out i tried to register x.com and actually got it! the question is... chitter or xitter?
- scythe 3y ago
- amelius 3y agoThe only thing I can ask is: Y ???
- bongobingo1 3y agoIt's a combination of things really.
- kinlan 3y agoZzz
- 101008 3y agoThis is even better in Spanish. ["Y?" is the equivalent of "And?"]
- coffeebeqn 3y agoMuch more original and superior
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- deadletters 3y agoThank you
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- ks2048 3y agoYCombinator needs to rebrand as Y to compete in this new world.
- CSMastermind 3y agoI'm told internally at Reddit there's a group called Reddit X working on the next big thing which recently got disbanded.
- dkdbejwi383 3y agohttps://x.redditinc.com https://x.redditinc.com
- crossroadsguy 3y agoIt just reminds me of Telegram. This page I mean, and that too visually it kinda resembles some Telegram product pages. However, unlike Reddit, Telegram app is epic good.
- trompetenaccoun 3y agoThe money/coins/rewards everywhere, the childish avatars, the lies about privacy and "empowering" redditors... Thanks, I hate everything about it.
- c7DJTLrn 3y ago>the next big thing which recently got disbanded A redesign that only applies to 30% of the website? A new video player that's even more broken?
- NBJack 3y agoShit. Don't give them any more ideas. Just wait until they finish the current "revamp of the awards system".
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- cameronh90 3y agoThere was also NHSX, which got merged into NHS Digital, which then got merged into NHS England.
- oh_sigh 3y agoGoogle X doesn't really need brand recognition, because they're supposed to pump out brands, not be the brand. IE Waymo, verily, etc.
- ConceptJunkie 3y ago"Google" is the brand name for enshittification.
- barbazoo 3y agoWTH, I totally 100% thought this was Musk's new company. There is already a company called X by Alphabet, what a goof.
- Tuna-Fish 3y agoMusk's original web payments company was x.com, which he started in the late 90's. Then it did a very early merge with some other startup, and the combined company rebranded to PayPal. At some point, Musk bought back the domain from PayPal. I do not understand why anyone would think that it's a great idea to do a this major rebranding of an existing company with a well-known brand.
- chx 3y agoThis entire endeavour not sure whether conscious or unconscious is Musk trying to -- gosh, there's a word for this but my English is failing me -- to finally get even with Thiel, to show Thiel he can do everything Thiel did but better. Someone like Musk never fully recovers from getting fired from his dear X.com post-merge. Make no mistake: back then Musk was doing a stupid by trying to force a Windows tech stack on a payment company which was using Unix. Thiel was one of the largest donors of Trump in 2016, is a true darling of the alt right so of course Musk must rub shoulders with them. Between the erstwhile x.com and Confinity the company which launched PayPal, the latter succeeded, gobbled up x.com so now of course Musk must show to Thiel that he can make a successful payment company called x.com. He must. That's the reason for all this bullshit, I am certain.
- smarnach 3y ago> gosh, there's a word for this one-upmanship?
- khazhoux 3y ago"Google X" actually made (and maybe still makes) a lot of sense. The history is that around 2010 Google wanted to kick off experimental projects, in part because they were starting to lose top talent to startups. Since they had Google Maps and Google Images and Google Earth and Google Mail etc, they named the new org Google X as a space for the new and undefined projects.