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Comment by danbr | Hacker News Reader

Does it strike anyone else as being odd that Apple is noting this in their “Newsroom” press release? Don’t get me wrong, great for Shazam and all … but why is Apple - the company that bought them just 4 years ago - is making a todo about it?

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I don't understand why you're so confused. Shazam is now part of Apple, they are not going to do a press release as "Shazam". The "Shazam" entity does not exist.

I think it's great. Too often, when a larger company acquires a smaller one, they try to erase all history and culture of the smaller company. Obviously, there is still a self-congratulatory tone to this press release, but I think it's nice that they're recognizing Shazam's past.

No it doesn't. Does it strike anyone else as odd that someone would question a company promoting/congratulating software achievements that they own?

Google doesn't celebrate the history of Writely or Android-pre-Google that much and Microsoft don't promote the history of Excel-pre-Microsoft that much either.

Their celebrations would be more like "10 years ago today we killed the only product of ours that you ever loved."

> Microsoft don't promote the history of Excel-pre-Microsoft that much either.

That’s probably because no such history exists, Excel was always a Microsoft product (even if they aren’t the inventors of spreadsheets).

They were probably thinking of PowerPoint, which did exist before Microsoft acquired it.

You’re right! PowerPoint. I stand corrected.

Sure but Apple does celebrate its products via Newsroom. Hell they even did it for iTunes in 2004

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