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I still genuinely absolutely dont understand why they thought investing everything into a really really shitty metaverse was a good idea so far ive seen literally zero reason to use it
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zuckerborg the ultrasperg wants to push the metaverse because he knows only trough clunky vr googles will he ever appear cool and relatable.
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ZUCC HAS A THICC BUTT THO
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I get the feeling it's Zuck's pet project and no one can tell him to just frick off.
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But they also all have big winners. Microsoft basically owns the operating system market and azure is also pretty huge. Amazon has their hands in everything and like half the internet runs on AWS. Google is in everything as well and dominates the ad space.
Meta has Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp. The first two seem to have peeked and are trending down and I doubt Whatsapp can pull much profit without drastically changing the app for the worse.
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Yeah but they don't go all in on utterly r-slurred projects like Facebook did
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Idk Stadia had a lot of money behind it.
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Because they have the best cost effective vr headset tech and it forces Facebook adoption. With remote everything being the big thing they're gambling to be THE face of vr for the world.
We will see how this bet takes off, but just looking at meta itself is missing the real pivot that they're making.
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Because they see the writing on the wall. You do new shit with a small probability if success or you become AOL. That and they need to keep these devs on the payroll in case shit breaks but you really don't need them fricking with the main product.
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That last bit is unexpectedly wise.
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You just haven't done any metaflexxin, so what would you know:
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Zuck had a bunch of yes men around him. Not joking.
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Because FB was too young to lead the Mobile revolution the way Apple did and lack of control over that major ecosystem has cratered profits when Apple forces changes that hurts FB.
For whatever reason, Zuck sees the metaverse as the next ecosystem and he's going to want to corner that market not only for new apps but to make sure no other company has such sway over FB apps.
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