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>clearly there’s a market for Facebook hardware—look at the success of its smart display, Portal. Is that a joke? I haven’t heard of anyone buying that. Only p

>clearly there’s a market for Facebook hardware—look at the success of its smart display, Portal. Is that a joke? I haven’t heard of anyone buying that. Only people balking at the mere idea of it.

nickthegreek 5y ago
Agreed about Portal, but Oculus is FB hardware and is pretty popular.
fireball_blaze 5y ago
If this device was truly selling well or exceeding Facebook's expectations, they'd be yelling it from the PR department constantly. That one 10X data point they mentioned has zero context and is unsubstantiated enough to be ignored entirely.
KaiserPro 5y ago
35-60 year old women drove that segment. They are actually really good(if you can get past the facebook part). Far better than the really expensive cisco board room systems.
izacus 5y ago
What does "you personally hearing" about anything have to do with a success of a major corpo product? I mean, media is reporting it as a success: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-portal-is-a-hit-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown-thanks-to-your-grandparents/ https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-portal-is-a-hit-during-th... What does your personal experience mean here? Or to Facebook as a whole? Bubbles are a thing you know and it's good to get rid of this bubble-restricted thinking.
- Clubber 5y ago
  Much of what the media, particularly the tech media "reports" on is really just paid advertising. >Numbers on Portal sales are hard to come by. That's buried in the article. If the sales numbers are hard to come by, how do they know it's a hit? Because Facebook says so? Questionable.
- adolph 5y ago
  On January 17, 2019, The New York Times columnist Kevin Roose posted on Twitter that Facebook Portal's Amazon product listing contained five-star reviews that appeared to have been written by Facebook employees, including one who claimed to have "historically not been a big Facebook or other social media user" before purchasing Portal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Portal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Portal

nickthegreek 5y ago

Agreed about Portal, but Oculus is FB hardware and is pretty popular.

fireball_blaze 5y ago

If this device was truly selling well or exceeding Facebook's expectations, they'd be yelling it from the PR department constantly. That one 10X data point they mentioned has zero context and is unsubstantiated enough to be ignored entirely.

KaiserPro 5y ago

35-60 year old women drove that segment. They are actually really good(if you can get past the facebook part). Far better than the really expensive cisco board room systems.

izacus 5y ago

What does "you personally hearing" about anything have to do with a success of a major corpo product? I mean, media is reporting it as a success: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-portal-is-a-hit-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown-thanks-to-your-grandparents/ https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-portal-is-a-hit-during-th... What does your personal experience mean here? Or to Facebook as a whole? Bubbles are a thing you know and it's good to get rid of this bubble-restricted thinking.

Clubber 5y ago
Much of what the media, particularly the tech media "reports" on is really just paid advertising. >Numbers on Portal sales are hard to come by. That's buried in the article. If the sales numbers are hard to come by, how do they know it's a hit? Because Facebook says so? Questionable.
adolph 5y ago
On January 17, 2019, The New York Times columnist Kevin Roose posted on Twitter that Facebook Portal's Amazon product listing contained five-star reviews that appeared to have been written by Facebook employees, including one who claimed to have "historically not been a big Facebook or other social media user" before purchasing Portal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Portal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Portal