It is so dumb it might work.
Facebook Renames to Meta
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#22Is this a change of company name or is the Facebook product/app/site also changing?
(As an aside the GDPR popup still asks me about “Facebook” cookies)
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#23https://meta.com is live as well. ...I can't tell if it's intentional that the page loads initially with the "facebook" brand in the uppper left and then quickly overwrites it with meta.
It's definitely intentional
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#24I actually agree with the vision, like its clear that media convergence will all kinda lead us into a common tech space, be it AR / VR / 3D whatever.
But I don't think it needs to be called metaverse. We should have another name for it. Not to give "Meta" as a company the same honor as google received for "googling".
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#25So, cut through the brand/marketing-speak and this is just like Alphabet, right?
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#26What an odd move; how on earth do they expect to defend that trademark?
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#27The rebrand was introduced as a "One More Thing" during the event keynote. A 2007 "One More Thing" was the announcement of the iPhone and the future of mobile computing. Now a 2021 "One More Thing" is the announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation.
Colombo invented the "one more thing". Give credit where credit is due ;)
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#28A name to signify what facebook has METAstasized into
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#29Still a terrible, terrible organisation that's detrimental to societies and humankind as such.
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#30MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice
Is n’t MAGNA better?