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I have a feeling the biggest blunder Musk made isn't verbal gaffes, but renaming Twitter to X. He basically gave business away to Meta on silver platter.
Which is even funnier when you know he tried to rename PayPal to X before and got fired over this abysmal idea.
I have a feeling the biggest blunder Musk made isn't verbal gaffes, but renaming Twitter to X. He basically gave business away to Meta on silver platter.
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Which is even funnier when you know he tried to rename PayPal to X before and got fired over this abysmal idea.
He also tried to replace everything unix-like with MS Windows. Somehow that must have seemed really important when trying to make a startup survive the dot com boom-and-bust cycle.
Oh. Though, actually this was probably the ActiveX era (DirectX is largely the only remaining evidence of it today, but MS went though an irritating “everything should end in X” phase in the late 90s).
Why tho I mean, really. Who is on there? What’s the incentive to switch to threads? I understand going to a federated mastodon instance, but this?
(I don’t see myself using Threads or Bluesky heavily unless and until there is good third party client support).
I have a feeling the biggest blunder Musk made isn't verbal gaffes, but renaming Twitter to X. He basically gave business away to Meta on silver platter.
I'm sick and tired of getting notifications about Threads when I'm on Instagram. The notifications are very hard and sometimes impossible to turn off. I like Instagram, but I couldn't care less about Threads. Being forced to get these notifications constantly gives me a strong urge to nuke my profiles on both apps.
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He also tried to replace everything unix-like with MS Windows. Somehow that must have seemed really important when trying to make a startup survive the dot com boom-and-bust cycle.
Which is odd, really; you’d think that X11 would have appealed to his terrible names fetish. Oh. Though, actually this was probably the ActiveX era (DirectX is largely the only remaining evidence of it today, but MS went though an irritating “everything should end in X” phase in the late 90s).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is odd, really; you’d think that X11 would have appealed to his terrible names fetish. Oh. Though, actually this was probably the ActiveX era (DirectX is largely the only remaining evidence of it today, but MS went though an irritating “everything should end in X” phase in the late 90s).
Xbox - prototype name for ActiveX game box.
Like, how many X can you cram into a name?
I have a feeling the biggest blunder Musk made isn't verbal gaffes, but renaming Twitter to X. He basically gave business away to Meta on silver platter.