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Re:Meta: A Social Technology Company by frankchn on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:45PM (#29030825)
That's because all of Google's main consumer properties didn't get branding changes and are still all "Google Maps" or "Google Photos", etc...

WhatsApp and Instagram are much stronger brands, and are not already branded "Facebook WhatsApp" or "WhatsApp by Facebook".

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Re:Meta: A Social Technology Company by toast0 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:29PM (#29031495)
> "WhatsApp by Facebook".

Well, the splash screen says "Whatsapp from Facebook", and the description on the Google Play store starts with "WhatsApp from Facebook is a FREE messaging and video calling app."

So, it's out there, even if people haven't changed the way they think.

Disclosure: I worked for WhatsApp until 2019

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Re:Meta: A Social Technology Company by y4mi on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:02PM (#29031957)
They are called Google maps/Google photos because these are Google products.

Google is responsible for alphabets web services. Check out Wikipedia for actual examples like waymo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.)

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Re:Meta: A Social Technology Company by aidaman on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:27PM (#29031467)
Really not true. The same number of people will know Facebook as owning them as do now. Like now people are like, "you know Instagram is owned by Facebook right?"

That's not going to change.

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