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Bigou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  would’nt it be AAMAM because Alphabet?

  I say we keep the word we know

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  • Bigou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Except all of Alphabet entreprises have a name starting by Google. (Or at least strongly evocating it, in the case of Gmail.)

    We can’t say the same about Meta. Instagram isn’t called “Facebook Gallery”, and Threads isn’t called “Facebook Short Messages”. (And Oculus didn’t become “Facebook VR”, just Meta.)

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    • dariusj18@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No, those are Google products, Alphabet is Google’s parent company and also holds many other companies like Waze and Doubleclick.

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      • Bigou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Except the team behind Waze was merged with the one behind Google Maps, they just keep the two apps separated (for now) to prevent any backlash. Same with Doubleclick and Google Adds. (In fact, I’ve got the impression Doubleclick became nothing more than an alias for Google Adds. And for quite some time, I might add.)

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• 3laws@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In my day it was FAANG

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  • Bigou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That is a far more funny acronym. Especially for a Frenchy like me, since my peoples often say of the ones controlling such big corporations, “they have fangs so long, they scratch the floor”. (Well… “They scratch the parquet”, to be exact. But who care if the floor is made of wood or not at that point.)

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