Here’s a silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”pic.twitter.com/wj7CRJUEyx
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We spend the next few days freaking out. We knew the feature was going to be huge, and now it had this name that everyone on both sides of the Satellite-vs-Aerial-Photography war agreed was silly and horrible. But it was *decided*. So what do we do?
It turns out, when you write the code, you have a fair amount of power.
We pocket vetoed the decision and launched with “Satellite.” And literally no exec noticed or remembered our review.
And we have been deceiving people with our not-really-satellite imagery ever since.
OR was Sergey purposely waiting til the last minute to suggest a really bad idea so that the two divided parties come to an agreement? Sounds like the kind of management technique King Solomon had used (1 Kings 3:23-27)
Microsoft actually called their aerial imagery version "Bird's Eye View".
Sergey was definitely watching the clock instead of listening to the arguing bozos ;)
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