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It's not at all about those things. This move is about entertwining Oculus and Facebook in such a way that Oculus can't be trivially broken apart from Facebook
by ericflo 6y ago
It's not at all about those things. This move is about entertwining Oculus and Facebook in such a way that Oculus can't be trivially broken apart from Facebook once antitrust regulators set their sights on the company.
- ben_w 6y agoRegulators have a hard enough time believing true things about encryption and back doors — I expect that if regulators see FB do this and have a problem with it they will say “your problem, not ours” and order the split anyway.
- sgift 6y agoWe will see - this is exactly Facebooks strategy with Instagram right now: Arguing that they have invested so much effort to integrate it with Facebook services (which they were prohibited from) that it would be far too expensive to force them to change it back. I hope the regulators throw that in their face and order it anyway, but the jury is still out.