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Why is google so bad at product branding and strategy? My complaint is aesthetic: why would you name your product a five-syllable word??

Because it's awkwardly close to the letters AGI, maybe
It's actually this, the command line tool is `agy`
Its clearly a reference to the xkcd comic which does have mindshare.
Thank you for the demonstrating the reasoning that leads to these decisions.
This made me laugh, I assume you are calling me an old fogey and I will be glad to take it. This is why they don't let me near the marketing stuff.
Which comic would that be?

Later edit: Probably this one [1], which is par for the course for Alphabet, they're, conceptually, still living in the early 2010s, when this stuff was culturally relevant.

[1] https://xkcd.com/353/

well they sure seem to make product naming after going through the whole medicine cabinet too, just like the comic
Informally, people will way “antigrav”.
Informally, nobody will be talking about it in one week

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