Did they really, though? Their rebranding didn't really effect anything beyond the holding company. Facebook is still called Facebook, and the Google Pixel is

Did they really, though? Their rebranding didn't really effect anything beyond the holding company. Facebook is still called Facebook, and the Google Pixel is still made by Google. I bet the general public has pretty much zero familiarity with the Meta / Alphabet brands. In essence it was nothing more than an attempt to misdirect public attention away from their well-known brands. See, it's Alphabet doing a bad thing - they are totally different from Google!