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I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.
by ergonaught 3y ago
I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.
- bqmjjx0kac 3y agoThere should be a higher bar for company names than co-opting a dictionary word or even just a letter. The lack of originality seems to be accelerating: first "Alphabet", then "Meta", and now "X"? (Honorable mention for "Apple".)
- nocoiner 3y agoBut Apple has been named Apple for, what, five decades? And besides, “Apple Computer Corp.” was surely better than “Computronics Inc.” or whatever was in vogue at that time.
- earthboundkid 3y agoJust think of what Steve Job would have called his next computer company…
- LeoPanthera 3y agoI don't know how true this is, but the story was always that the Steves chose "Apple" because it was ahead of "Atari" in the phone book. I hope it's true. But these things often turn out to be myths.
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y agoYou have only control over yourself. I will never call this anything but Twitter, same way I've never called Facebook and Google anything else.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoTo be fair, Google didn’t change its name like the others. Some subsidiaries that used to be under Google just moved out into a parent umbrella company. Google still exists and contains basically all of the products it used to, and none of the branding changed.
- hn1986 3y agoI think it's time for news organizations to boycott Twitter now