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I feel like Netflix is still being included in FAANG because otherwise it would become a slur. Other than that I don't get why we still value it so high in the tech world

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Apple doesn’t even fit in there, it is a devices company first. AINA: Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD, these companies actually design physical things that have to deal with the hostility of the real world, IMO they are much more impressive.

Of course 3/4 lean on TSMC for the hardest part, so…

I think the FAANG acronym was created originally to distinguish companies that paid really high salaries for tech. And for a while (if not still true), they paid the highest.

They sure know how to present themselves authoritatively at tech conferences. Maybe that's it.

I always wonder why Netflix not Microsoft is included? FAAMG would be strange though.

With F being Meta now, it’d be MAAMG.. AMAMG.. GAAMM.. GAMMA?

With Google being Alphabet now, it's be MAMAA

Facebook is now called Meta, so the new acronym could be MAGMA.

I’ve been pushing this for years, it’s the obvious choice, but people keep saying FAANG anyway.

And Google is Alphabet . . . MAMAA!

In France we actually use GAFAM, so we include Microsoft but not Netflix

> I always wonder why Netflix not Microsoft is included? FAAMG would be strange though.

Because by the time the term was coined, Microsoft was a slow-turning behemoth that had shed a lot of talent to help create the internal engineering cultures at the non-Apple others.

Apple doesn't really belong in FAANG either, but at one point including Apple made it seem cooler.

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