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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.
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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.
Have any of their projects gone anywhere? https://x.company/projects/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/googles-life-sciences-unit...
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
So here he is again, pushing the name X. My understanding is he’s done it before. And he wants Twitter to be a huge financial payments player. Claims half the global market will want to use it.
Seems to me he can’t stop fighting past battles to try to prove he was right, when he clearly wasn’t, to assuage his ego. I’m hardly the first person to point this out. I learned it from someone else years ago, it just happens to fit perfectly again.
Seriously, Google spamming Musk's rebrand? Tacky af.
Surely Google/Alphabet's X subsidiary has been around for a while now? (wikipedia suggests since 2010, albeit only renamed from Google X to just "X" in 2015)
(And I always felt the name made a certain amount of sense for a subsidiary of a company named "Alphabet").
Perhaps two weeks until he explains it all away as an "experiment" rather than genuine ignorance.
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.
I'm told internally at Reddit there's a group called Reddit X working on the next big thing which recently got disbanded.
To add fuel to the fire, Elon has been quite vocal about his disdain for Larry lately. According to Elon, he got upset at Larry for not taking the risks of AI seriously. I wouldn't put it past Elon for this to be a bit of him thumbing his nose at Alphabet.
Have any of their projects gone anywhere? https://x.company/projects/