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Disgraced Uber CEO/founde (“TK” — within his inner circle, douche alert lol) with inserting X into their products
Twitter randomly renamed to “X” by Elon
Tesla car with X
Google has some X product, probably. I think their R&D dept is just named “X”
Apple had a brief “X” and “XS” phase with their iPhones (instead of just using 10 or 10S)
[0] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/X:NYSE
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2013/10/08/after-...
[2] https://www.yahoo.com/video/confusion-over-stock-names-zoom-...
It seems like an anti pattern that some huge, futzy organization launches a “moonshot” to explain why they burn money on something without needing a return because it’s a “moonshot.”
JFK gave his “to the moon” speech in 1962, targeting 1970 [0]. And the USG did it. So 8 years was the first one. It cost a ton of money and was successful and had massive returns culturally, scientifically, and financially.
Google launched its X/moonshot org in 2010 [1]. 14 years later, have any “landed?”
It seems like orgs should stop using this terminology unless they are seriously committed.
The USG launched their “cancer moonshot” [2] for very good reasons, and very sympathetic, but their goal was by 2020 and they didn’t make it. I think we should increase cancer research funding, but draping it in hyperbole is negative when we don’t achieve what we said we targeted.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Cures_Act#Medical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)
The information looks interesting but the site is so hard to navigate, there are 3-7 moving elements on the screen at any time, text runs away while reading it, scroll doesn't work as expected, information is presented in too many different ways.
Everybody wants to have the "cool factor" of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System Heck, Musk even copied the logo outright.
The Twitter landing page looks like something from the mind of a prepubescent boy pumped on “xtreme” products of the early 00s
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
In contrast, today we have Gen X executives who are seemingly trying to recapture the glory days of the late '90s.
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
The Xbox brand is very unique because they think numbers go from 0 to 360 to 1.
Actually someone described this phenomena really well: we are all tied up (psychologically, socially, economically) by these billionaires and the visions they bring up to us, that we let ourselves seduced by the spectacle, while surrendering our common sense and critical thinking, void of power, action, consciousness. The reality is that, even you fuel a revolution somewhere, there are massive opposing idiots out the…
Straw man aside, calling your opponents idiots says more about you than about your opponents.
The last event in their timeline is 2020. Moon presumed shot.