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So the solution to that problem is to dilute the brand that resonates with people, by using it for only tangentally related products, like email relays and vpns and what not?

That way, in a couple years you say you know, the Firefox peole and they say "who?"

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You see that with Google and Alphabet. “Alphabet who?” “the google people”.

It’s Google Maps, not Alphabet Maps. Isn’t that a similar situation?

And it doesn’t dilute the Google brand, if anything I’d argue it strengthens it and makes it even more well known.

Google was born Google and created Alphabet as a holding entity for subsequent acquisitions.

Mozilla created Firefox.

It’s like if Google decided to rebrand Google Maps to Chrome Maps if Chrome ended up having better brand recognition.

That has happened to some extent; there are a number of products named after Chrome. Chromecast has nothing to do with a web browser (or even Chrome OS, another Chrome-branded product).

It definitely hasn’t gotten to a point where we’re getting Chrome Maps, but the proliferation of Chrome-branded devices does indicate that Mozilla focusing more on Firefox the brand is a reasonable decision.

> Chromecast has nothing to do with a web browser

At one point it basically did, since Chrome was (IIRC) the first thing to support casting to Chromecasts.

I'd argue that chrome OS sounds a lot like it's an OS built around the browser and Web apps.

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