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> "WhatsApp by Facebook".

Well, the splash screen says "Whatsapp from Facebook", and the description on the Google Play store starts with "WhatsApp from Facebook is a FREE messaging and video calling app."

So, it's out there, even if people haven't changed the way they think.

Disclosure: I worked for WhatsApp until 2019

They are called Google maps/Google photos because these are Google products.

Google is responsible for alphabets web services. Check out Wikipedia for actual examples like waymo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.)

Really not true. The same number of people will know Facebook as owning them as do now. Like now people are like, "you know Instagram is owned by Facebook right?"

That's not going to change.