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Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash by wkat4242 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:50PM (#43723060)
True and their first mover advantage still works pretty well. Despite "ChatGPT" being a really uncool name in terms of marketing. People remember it because they were the first to wow them.
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Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash by golergka on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:11PM (#43723208)
It feels more authentically engineer-coded.
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Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash by kaoD on Friday April 18, 2025 @04:01PM (#43731402)
How is ChatGPT bad in terms of marketing? It's recognizable and rolls off the tongue in many many many languages.

Gemini is what sucks from a marketing perspective. Generic-ass name.

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Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash by simonw on Friday April 18, 2025 @04:12PM (#43731472)
Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a horrible term to have an acronym for.
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Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash by kaoD on Friday April 18, 2025 @04:25PM (#43731564)
Do you think the mass market thinks GPT is an acronym? It's just a name. Currently synonymous with AI.

Ask anyone outside the tech bubble about "Gemini" though. You'll get astrology.

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Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash by wkat4242 on Friday April 18, 2025 @04:32PM (#43731628)
True I guess they treat it just like SMS.

I still think they'd have taken off more if they'd given it a catchy name from the start and made the interface a bit more consumer friendly.

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