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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I thought it was because .xyz had recently become a tld and they loved the sound of abc.xyz

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's honestly weird to imagine them being concerned with branding at all because they are literally an umbrella corporation that doesn't seem to interface with customers directly. Like I never think about them and I suspect having regular people think more about them would not be good for them in any way.

"Alphabet" works for that in my head because it slides off my brain. I forget they exist until something reminds me.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago
[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In that case I guess Aaron or Aardvark were too evocative of imagery and they really wanted something as antiseptic as possible.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They probably want to avoid anything that sounds like it might be Jewish, so Aaron is out. This is not because of direct anti-Semitism, but because of the fear of it. Avoiding such words avoids the subject entirely. (Ironically, the Semitic origins of the word "Alphabet" aren't as obvious.)

Aardvark is too alien and weird. Also, C-levels are deathly afraid of varking too aard.

Abacus might have been a better choice, but it doesn't come with the infuriatingly tantalising closeness of one or two letters' distance.

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