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Indulge some pedantry with me... Why "Googlebook?" Pixel was meant for first-party computing devices, I thought. Nest for smart home and Fitbit for fitness trac
by Andrex 5mo ago
Indulge some pedantry with me... Why "Googlebook?" Pixel was meant for first-party computing devices, I thought. Nest for smart home and Fitbit for fitness trackers.
If you don't want to associate with past Pixelbooks and want to highlight Gemini, why not Geminibook or something like that? Does Google not have faith in the Gemini branding?
Random thoughts from a nerdy mind.
- dccoolgai 5mo agoAI polls lower than "congress". People hate it - they hate it so much. They probably _wanted_ to call it that but someone who knows anything put their foot down.
- riffraff 5mo agobuth the very first two bits of copy are about "intelligence" and "gemini". If they wanted to stay away from AI as branding they didn't do a great job.
- taco_emoji 5mo agoCongressBook it is!
- BakeInBeens 5mo agoIf Samsung isn't a Googlebook partner then those laptop OEMs could be shipping the Google desktop environment while OEMs are free to ship a Googlebook or scale up their own desktop environments.
- VectorLock 5mo agoJust calling it a "Gbook" sounds infinitely cooler.
- Krastan 5mo agoThey are renaming fitbit to google health too lol
- Andrex 5mo agoJust the app, hardware trackers like the Air are still Fitbit. Which matches what they did with Nest, keeping the hardware name but having everything live in the Google Home app.
- modeless 5mo agoGooglebook sounds like a first party hardware product but apparently it's just the new name for Androidified ChromeOS? They should have just called it "Android". And if there's ever first party hardware it should be Pixelbook or Gbook.