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Why is google so bad at product branding and strategy? My complaint is aesthetic: why would you name your product a five-syllable word??
by prodigycorp 11mo ago
Why is google so bad at product branding and strategy? My complaint is aesthetic: why would you name your product a five-syllable word??
- hobs 11mo agoIts clearly a reference to the xkcd comic which does have mindshare.
- nfw2 11mo agoThank you for the demonstrating the reasoning that leads to these decisions.
- hobs 11mo agoThis made me laugh, I assume you are calling me an old fogey and I will be glad to take it. This is why they don't let me near the marketing stuff.
- paganel 11mo agoWhich comic would that be? Later edit: Probably this one [1], which is par for the course for Alphabet, they're, conceptually, still living in the early 2010s, when this stuff was culturally relevant. [1] https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/
- igleria 11mo agowell they sure seem to make product naming after going through the whole medicine cabinet too, just like the comic
- shwaj 11mo agoInformally, people will way “antigrav”.
- brazukadev 11mo agoInformally, nobody will be talking about it in one week
- xplt 11mo agoBecause it's awkwardly close to the letters AGI, maybe
- RubberSpoon 11mo agoIt's actually this, the command line tool is `agy`