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Timely considering PG's post earlier in the week http://paulgraham.com/name.html
Maybe I'm wrong, and it's most easy to "my mind" accept Ev idea.
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Yeah, to imply that the leaders of a massively successful company didn't think to look into naming issues is extremely naive or grasping for news straws at best.
In a way they may have not or they would have confirmed that BMW wouldn't have an issue with it.
Maybe google plans to buy BMW ...
Also Google is, for a carmaker, tiny. VW, for example, is over twice as large as Google.
Runs into in what way? Sure, BMW owns alphabet.com -- Alphabet, Inc., uses abc.xyz, and probably doesn't care about alphabet.com. They aren't a consumer-facing entity, all the consumer facing entities are presumably going to be subsidiaries with their own names and identities. And, sure, BMW has a trademark on Alphabet in particular domains. Again, Alphabet, Inc., is a parent entity, its quite likely the subsidiaries…
Runs into in the sense that the first website people will type when trying to access the website of Google's Alphabet is surely alphabet.com.
Maybe google plans to buy BMW ...
Maybe google plans to buy BMW ...
After BMW just bought the last remains of Nokia (including the smart-driving subsidy of Nokia that produced 3D scans of all european streets), I don’t think so. Also Google is, for a carmaker, tiny. VW, for example, is over twice as large as Google.
By what measure? Market cap, Google is one of the biggest companies in the world, (#2 behind Apple, last I heard) in the neighborhood of $450 billion. VW Group is around $100 billion. Google's cash on hand is on the rough order of magnitude of VW's market cap.
Google -> abc.xyz -> alphabet -> a to z -> a2z.com -> Amazon
Runs into in what way? Sure, BMW owns alphabet.com -- Alphabet, Inc., uses abc.xyz, and probably doesn't care about alphabet.com. They aren't a consumer-facing entity, all the consumer facing entities are presumably going to be subsidiaries with their own names and identities. And, sure, BMW has a trademark on Alphabet in particular domains. Again, Alphabet, Inc., is a parent entity, its quite likely the subsidiaries…
Runs into in what way? Sure, BMW owns alphabet.com -- Alphabet, Inc., uses abc.xyz, and probably doesn't care about alphabet.com. They aren't a consumer-facing entity, all the consumer facing entities are presumably going to be subsidiaries with their own names and identities. And, sure, BMW has a trademark on Alphabet in particular domains. Again, Alphabet, Inc., is a parent entity, its quite likely the subsidiaries…
Runs into in the sense that the first website people will type when trying to access the website of Google's Alphabet is surely alphabet.com.