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I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.
by forkerenok 3mo ago
I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.
- mattkevan 3mo agoI reckon the same dipshits responsible for Microsoft’s product naming in the early 2000s all moved on to Google to wreak the same havoc there.
- jkkola 3mo agoLooking at the recent decades-old-brand renaming bonanza with MS Office I'm pretty sure they're still in Redmond.
- tanseydavid 3mo agoGot burned by this when I was wanting to uninstall MS Office from my laptop recently. Filtering with string "office" turned up nothing in the list of installed programs but it was clear that "MS Office Click-to-Run SxS" was regularly grinding away chewing lots of CPU. So I was not crazy -- Office was installed. The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365. Brilliant value add on that one </sarc>
- kalleboo 3mo ago> The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365 It's now been renamed "Microsoft 365 Copilot". Not joking.
- tapoxi 3mo agoTheir current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X
- eterm 3mo agoI thought that was satire but I've googled it and you're not even joking.
- neves 3mo agoNow search for Microsoft corporation family if products called Copilot
- TitaRusell 3mo agoAnd I bet marketeers got paid a lot of money to come up with those.
- ramses0 3mo agoMitch Hedberg... "I want to get a job at the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute: Refrigerator, Toaster, Blender.. you just say say what it does, then you add '-er' What's this thing do? It keeps shit fresh. Well that's a fresher. I'm goin on break." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA
- ramses0 3mo ago...and the Ally ISN'T EVEN AN XBOX!!!! """AI Overview: No, the Asus ROG Ally is not actually an Xbox. It is a handheld Windows computer made by Asus, even though it features Xbox branding and uses an Xbox-style controller layout"""
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- iamacyborg 3mo agoNo, no, they’ve all moved over to Salesforce.
- dotancohen 3mo ago> products be endlessly repackaged I don't speak English at home either, so I hope this helps. It's "products are", not "products be".
- pmarreck 3mo agoi’m thinking it’s an intentional turn of phrase so for example in native English, if someone upset some people, you might say, just to be creatively different: “oh boy. people be big mad” it is an idiom, not necessarily officially part of the language. just saying things in a silly way to be different “now you’ve done it… People be cryin’!” I think it might also be an echo of pidgin English/Creole/caribbean English? Would be an interesting language dive. Ask an AI!
- satvikpendem 3mo agoIt's ebonics, a slang or dialect version of using "are."
- frollogaston 3mo agoAnd it's more like "are being" here (present imperfect)
- sheept 3mo agoLinguistically it's particularly interesting since it marks the habitual aspect, and standard English has no grammatical equivalent.[0] [0]: https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/invariant-be#who-says-this https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/invariant-be#who-says-this
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- dotancohen 3mo agoEbonics, from the root ebony, meaning black-speak? I can't believe that's still acceptable.
- navane 3mo ago
- conception 3mo agoI’ve noticed a lot of big corporations doing this and I think the reasoning behind it is it’s really easy to say you shipped a product on your résumé. If all you did was change the name of it. It actually takes a lot of work and time to ship a new innovative product.
- wodenokoto 3mo agoopenAI just renamed codex to ChatGPT app … I think it is just par for the game.