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That's not the case though, they are shifting to external vendors rather than developing their own aircraft.
by microcolonel 8y ago
That's not the case though, they are shifting to external vendors rather than developing their own aircraft.
- shaklee3 8y agoThat's the same as shutting down.
- taneq 8y agoWell, not really. It's more like Apple going into partnership with VW for their self-driving car project. Building a production vehicle is a massive distraction from the core project (ie. the self-driving software).
- mtgx 8y agoNah, Google also did the same with its End-to-End encryption extension for Gmail. They "didn't abandon it", they just "allowed the community to take it from there". Yeah, so they abandoned it.
- thinkcontext 8y agoThe "it" they abandoned is the aircraft, they will continue to work on connectivity. They mention working with Airbus, they have a drone that has stayed aloft for 14 days. It seems like FB decided that they weren't making enough progress on building their own aircraft to justify not using someone else's technology for that piece of the overall project.