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It's a testament to their lack of product diversity. No one would say "My Microsoft" or "My Google" or "My Valve" or "My Betty Crocker" because those companies
by mynameishere 13y ago
It's a testament to their lack of product diversity. No one would say "My Microsoft" or "My Google" or "My Valve" or "My Betty Crocker" because those companies have many credible products. "My Facebook" means "My Facebook account" because the whole company is nothing but a message board.
For serious products, this isn't the case. You might say "My Ford", and everyone would know you're talking about a car, but a car is considerably more significant than a username/password to a message board.
- seiji 13y agoSame problem: I used to work with people who would say "Can you send it to me in Adobe?" or "Do you have Adobe installed?" to mean PDF or Adobe Acrobat. Adobe still had a dozen products back then, but they had one "consumer" product and the rest were for pros or creatives.
- Turing_Machine 13y agoI'd send them a .psd and then act surprised when they couldn't open it. A friend who did Tech Support Hell while he was in college used to get irked at "my Internet don't (sic) work".
- taejo 13y agoGoogle has more than one product, but one of their products is nevertheless called Google (the one that's at "google.com"; the referent of the verb "google"; etc.). Internally/formally it may be called "Search" but I dare say most of it's users call it "Google" (they might say "I did a Google search" but not "I used Google Search").
- Turing_Machine 13y agoThat's different. People may say it's "on Google", or "I used Google", but they don't say "I have a Google".
- philwelch 13y agoNow wonder how disorienting it is to work at one of those companies. I believe Amazon gets around this by liberally using the phrase "retail website" to refer to what the rest of the world just calls "Amazon".