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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by tptacek on Sunday June 16, 2019 @11:23PM (#20199613)
That'd be Amazon, their parent company, one of (along with the other FAANG companies) the savviest consumers of legal services in the world.
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by idlewords on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:41PM (#20208792)
Why the N in FAANG? Why isn't it FAAMG? I can't get a reasonable answer to this.
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by electroly on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:35PM (#20216730)
My assumption: because people really want it to sound like a real word, but dropping the "N" makes a very unfortunate cognate with an offensive English term, and "FAAMG" doesn't sound like a real word. Netflix is just there to avoid what "FAANG" would be without it.
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by thrower123 on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:46PM (#20208820)
Isn't the N Netflix? I think it's just Bay Area/Silicon Valley companies, while Microsoft is up north in Washington.
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by idlewords on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:51PM (#20208848)
Yeah, N is netflix, but in this context what's being referred to is the Big 5 tech companies, which should be Google|Alphabet/Amazon/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple.

I think the original FAANG formulation had to do with fastest-growing stocks and now it's infected the discourse about the tech oligopoly. Other theories welcome.

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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by nostrademons on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:12PM (#20208969)
Yeah, I think it has to do with stock price appreciation. Since 2009, Google has grown 7x, Apple 9x, FB was non-public but a rough private market valuation gives about 9x, Amazon 32X, and Netflix 70X. MSFT has grown 5x, but 2x of that is since 2017 and virtually all of it since 2015 (while FB started its rally in 2013 and the rest in 2009), so it's been left out of the discourse.

Personally, I'm a fan of the acronym MAGA for the top tech companies, because that's the initials of the largest 4 (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple) and they are Making America Great Again, with multiple levels of irony that your personal political views and historical knowledge can help you unpack.

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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by kevinmchugh on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:29PM (#20216659)
You've also pointed out that FAANG is outdated, so I'm switching to FAAAM
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by idlewords on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:24PM (#20219800)
This is like a scrabble game where we're waiting for more companies that start with a consonant to hit a 1T valuation.
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by tptacek on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:15PM (#20209501)
Yeah I have no clue. I'm partial to Patrick's "AmaGooBookSoft" but then you're leaving out Apple.
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by patio11 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:24AM (#20221942)
I think I switched to AppAmaGooBookSoft in ~2015.
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Re:Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography by csa on Thursday June 20, 2019 @03:11AM (#20230600)
FWIW, I think you started it as AmaGooFaceSoft, then AppAmaGooFaceSoft[1], then AppAmaGooBookSoft.

I personally prefer the AppAmaGooFaceSoft over the ...BookSoft version.

Based on the fact that I can say the above with a small amount of authority, I think it's safe to say that I have read too much of your stuff.......

[1]The Blue Googles confirms that you used AppAmaGooFaceSoft as well. I prefer it and use it not infrequently.

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