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Re:HashiCorp – S1 by da39a3ee on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:38PM (#29115188)
If F => M then doesn't G => A? Which is good, we don't want to have to go around calling them MAGNA!
Re:HashiCorp – S1 by jitl on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:15AM (#29115381)
Every one of the Facebook companies is a household name with hundreds of millions of users. The same cannot be said for the Alphabet companies aside from Google.
Re:HashiCorp – S1 by adeelk93 on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:52AM (#29115596)
YouTube and Fitbit come to mind
Re:HashiCorp – S1 by johanj on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:59AM (#29116908)
Both are subsidiaries of Google, not Alphabet.
Re:HashiCorp – S1 by NicoJuicy on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:29PM (#29123742)
Chromecast Android ChromeOS

I think Oculus is much more similar to Stadia than something else too.

Additionally, all of those platforms you mention du the same thing: chat and share pics.

Re:HashiCorp – S1 by jitl on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:31AM (#29127543)
You listed three Google products. Those are not alphabet companies. No one is trying to say Google is smalltime. Rather the point is, “Meta as an entity is comparable to Google, not Alphabet because it’s Units are Interesting”
Re:HashiCorp – S1 by NicoJuicy on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:02PM (#29133773)
I listed 4 actually, all with their OWN household name with plenty of users.

Under the Google umbrella or alphabet is the same. Just like under Facebook or Meta.

Nobody cares about the exact legal construction of those products. Plenty of people still say FANG, where it's short for Google and not Alphabet.

Nice nitpick, but you obviously mispositioned your initial comment by putting the emphasis on household names and not on the legal structure, which is a strange argument fyi.

Re:HashiCorp – S1 by fnord123 on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:31AM (#29117779)
Oculus does not have hundreds of million users.
Re:HashiCorp – S1 by thaumasiotes on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:47AM (#29116825)
You prefer MAAAN?

While I'm doing a low-content post, here's a tangential fun fact: the Latin sequence "gn" (as in, say, "magna cum laude") was pronounced with the G nasalized. If magna were rendered in English spelling, it'd be "mangna". (Or, well, "mongna".)