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Indulge some pedantry with me... Why "Googlebook?" Pixel was meant for first-party computing devices, I thought. Nest for smart home and Fitbit for fitness trackers.

If you don't want to associate with past Pixelbooks and want to highlight Gemini, why not Geminibook or something like that? Does Google not have faith in the Gemini branding?

Random thoughts from a nerdy mind.

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AI polls lower than "congress". People hate it - they hate it so much. They probably _wanted_ to call it that but someone who knows anything put their foot down.

buth the very first two bits of copy are about "intelligence" and "gemini". If they wanted to stay away from AI as branding they didn't do a great job.

I think they're implying that they might not want to damage the "Pixel" brand.

Ah that makes sense, thanks.

CongressBook it is!

Googlebook sounds like a first party hardware product but apparently it's just the new name for Androidified ChromeOS? They should have just called it "Android". And if there's ever first party hardware it should be Pixelbook or Gbook.

If Samsung isn't a Googlebook partner then those laptop OEMs could be shipping the Google desktop environment while OEMs are free to ship a Googlebook or scale up their own desktop environments.

Just calling it a "Gbook" sounds infinitely cooler.

They are renaming fitbit to google health too lol

Just the app, hardware trackers like the Air are still Fitbit.

Which matches what they did with Nest, keeping the hardware name but having everything live in the Google Home app.

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