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Re: X, the moonshot factory

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Post by Joker_vD »

andrewstuart wrote: post #6

Yes, X as a brand lacks uniqueness. Xbox X factor X-men Xvideos Etc etc Seems to me musk just loves the domain. Domain: $10,000,000 Users: $44,000,000,000

Well, of course he does: his first start-up he managed sold (well, not exactly sold) to Confinity was called X.com [0]. And yes, it had image problems because people thought it was a porn site judging by its name.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

Re: X, the moonshot factory

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Post by b3n »

andrewstuart wrote: post #6

Yes, X as a brand lacks uniqueness. Xbox X factor X-men Xvideos Etc etc Seems to me musk just loves the domain. Domain: $10,000,000 Users: $44,000,000,000

This is a Google company, it has nothing to do with Musk.

Re: X, the moonshot factory

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Post by marricks »

andrewstuart wrote: post #6

Yes, X as a brand lacks uniqueness. Xbox X factor X-men Xvideos Etc etc Seems to me musk just loves the domain. Domain: $10,000,000 Users: $44,000,000,000

I’m no Xbox fan but I always felt the appeal was it was almost a palindrome and it’s a box to play games on.

X has a cool sound and mystery so I think it works when paired with someone that fits. X-men is one for me at least.

Brand-less unpaired “X” is the epitome of bland. I have no doubt Twitter will be around in the next ten years.

But just like AOL, Yahoo, and MySpace no one will really care except a fragment of their original demographic. Which I’m going to assume with Musk at the helm will be aging genx'ers. Which is kinda fitting.

Re: X, the moonshot factory

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Post by soco »

a-dub wrote: post #18
scblock wrote: post #3

X by Google, X by Twitter, X by X. Terrible branding on all sides and I am so not interested in any of this bullshit.

mac os x 10 is actually a pretty special number

Am I the only one thinking of that picture of ten roman legionaries, captioned "The X Men"?

Re: X, the moonshot factory

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Post by dpifke »

larvaetron wrote: post #11
aerodog wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Heaven forbid someone should type out a comment to voice their disinterest about something.

Low-effort comments are against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's possible to voice disinterest in a thoughtful and substantive way. The GP comment (and arguably your reply) does not.

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