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didn't they rename the company to Meta because of their investment in Metaverse.... what will the company rename itself to next?
by flw_0311 7mo ago
didn't they rename the company to Meta because of their investment in Metaverse.... what will the company rename itself to next?
- GeoSys 7mo agoOn to the next hype ...
- makeitrain 7mo agoAI generated content and chat bots.
- GeoSys 7mo agoNext a rename to SlopBook ...
- wduquette 7mo agoThey won't rename themselves again. They're um, "beyond" that.
- pfannkuchen 7mo agoIf they wanted to broaden their brand association beyond the legacy product they should have dropped “book” to become Face. A bit of a stranger name than Meta I guess but it’s more historically explainable and doesn’t tie it to any specific new product that could fail.
- nchmy 7mo agoFace would be an absolutely awful name. Though, interestingly, that's what people in (at least some) Latin American countries (inexplicably) call Facebook.
- pfannkuchen 7mo agoWhy would Face be an awful name? To me it feels similar to “Apple”, which might also sound like a stupid name for a computer company if it wasn’t established already.
- glenstein 7mo agoI think they actually renamed to avoid anti-trust by attempting to shift the company's identity away from social media monopoly. If you're perceived as pointless and weird (and actually are), it's much better than being perceived as a monopoly which is the target of bipartisan effort to be dismantled. I think they took a boutique idea that had no legs and leaned into it because it also happened to be complementary to a strategy to escape the anti-trust heat.