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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by smileysteve on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:37PM (#18728320)
Sure, but then you try to make the children be playmates, and only 3 might work for a while, 1 might be a jerk that hurts the others; and 5 years down the road, you move anyway, so you only have 1 baby.

^ Sticking to the analogy when it comes to integrating into business; competing products, and which one actually maintains adoption.

9 babies in 9 months is basically what Google has done with its messaging apps.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by Dwolb on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:40PM (#18728916)
Off topic question: is there a word or phrase for this conversation?

Something to describe arguing about the issue at hand completely through the metaphor and not directly referring to the issue at hand.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by gxs on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:46PM (#18728971)
The word is pretty much analogy and counter analogy.

See this wikipedia article that discusses it in the context of logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by luckydata on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:29PM (#18729303)
"Hackernewsing"
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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by peterclary on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:56AM (#18731998)
Darmoking?
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