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The Word text processor was already ungoogleable before there even was Google. This lexicographic landgrab not exactly a new phenomenon.

Within platforms like Apple OS it's a very powerful tool: if you give your app for doing something a brand it effectively admits that there could be other apps, but if you don't that is easy to forget.




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