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My conspiracy theory is that renaming all products to generic names (Hangouts to Google Chat, G Suite to Google Workspace) are an attempt by Google to prevent regulators from splitting them out from the main company.

It's only a matter of time until Pixel gets renamed to "Google Phone".

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That's funny when you consider the rename to Alphabet.

Edit: to clarify, since somebody downvoted me, I'm just saying it's funny that they refactored all their properties into multiple legal entities and now several years later might want to do the opposite. You can't expect consistent behavior from these companies over time.

My grandma used to say "doing and undoing is still working". High end Law firms won't disagree.

> It's only a matter of time until Pixel gets renamed to "Google Phone".

gPhone.

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