As a former FBer, I can honestly say that I would buy these for my company if FB sold them (sadly I just don't think the TAM is there for them to even try). My

As a former FBer, I can honestly say that I would buy these for my company if FB sold them (sadly I just don't think the TAM is there for them to even try). My understanding is that they are basically secure terminals (PoE and requires network to boot, meaning it's hard to unplug and steal) that run persistent webpages (so people make "apps" by writing JS + HTML) and have unique names consisting of random words (e.g. "strong-blue-cardinal") such that you could go to an internal tool and push your webpage to any Gizmo you knew the name of (and were on the ACL for). At FB they are used for everything from - meeting room booking (the LEDs on the side indicate whether the room is booked, red; booked but not yet checked in to, yellow; available, green; non-reservable, blue; looking down a hallway it was fairly simple to decide if something was available). - dashboards (we used to use Mac minis) - misc stuff (iirc there was even a hackathon to see what else people would build) Contrast this to now where I need to run a metrics dashboard and can't figure out what hardware to use (we settled on a chromebit, but why do I need all of chromeos to basically run one webpage). Like I said, would happily buy.