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The rebrand was introduced as a "One More Thing" during the event keynote. A 2007 "One More Thing" was the announcement of the iPhone and the future of mobile
by minimaxir 5y ago
The rebrand was introduced as a "One More Thing" during the event keynote.
A 2007 "One More Thing" was the announcement of the iPhone and the future of mobile computing. Now a 2021 "One More Thing" is the announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation.
- nerbert 5y agoColombo invented the "one more thing". Give credit where credit is due ;)
- aliswe 5y agowho?
- firecall 5y agoJohn Columbo, former CEO of IBM.
- mro_name 5y agooh, not the TV detective :-(
- RobKohr 5y agoFret not, it was really the TV detective. I think the one that suggested it was someone from IBM was being sarcastic. One more thing for your viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBnaMGP2aY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBnaMGP2aY ~ A fellow Columbo fan who used to watch it with his Grandma (she so had the hots for him)
- dredmorbius 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo
- agumonkey 5y agoColombo was also more valuable that this announcement it seems.
- lostcolony 5y agoColumbo was solving crimes. FB is committing them.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago"Good artists copy, great artists steal" -Steve Jobs (who stole this from Pablo Picasso, and there is a debate about whether or not Picaso even came up with the quote originally)
- jareklupinski 5y ago- Colombo
- mrzool 5y agoThis brought back memories, thank you :')
- danso 5y agoFor better or worse, it does seem Zuckerberg is as invested in making the "metaverse" the new future of Facebook as Jobs was with Apple and the iPhone
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> Zuckerberg is as invested in making the "metaverse" the new future of Facebook as Jobs was with Apple and the iPhone The obvious distinction being Jobs, with his "one more thing," announced an actual product.
- schmorptron 5y agoIn this case, worse. Definitely worse.
- troyvit 5y agoMeta-worse
- JKCalhoun 5y agoSeems like "metaverse" means walled internet. "You've got mail!" LOL
- creshal 5y agoThe iPhone turned out to be the most walled garden smartphone as well (even compared to older designs that relied on Java ME), and it didn't exactly hurt them. The more relevant question is, can Facebook in 2022 excite people as much as Apple did when riding on the height of the iPod/iTunes craze in 2007?
- sverhagen 5y agoLOL? You mean AOL?
- JKCalhoun 5y agoBoth work. ;-)
- 5faulker 5y agoStill a faceless corporation though.
- mro_name 5y agometaface
- dudeman13 5y agoI mean, I associate the book of faces with Lizard Zuckerberg. It might as well act like a faceless corporation, but it is far from "faceless"... I think. Consider f.e. Tesla's face, or Amazon's face.
- akudha 5y agoHaving watched the downfall of MySpace, Orkut etc, I thought (hoped) same thing might happen to FaceBook. But now it feels like they are going to be around, for a long, long time. I don't know if anyone is even trying to take on them, Google seems to have given up on their social products. FB might not be fashionable anymore, people might even curse them, but they'll continue to use them at some level :( And they have enough money to keep buying other companies and stay at least somewhat relevant It feels like only regulators can take on them, but that too is unlikely to happen, except some feeble attempts in Europe
- johannes1234321 5y agoWell, Facebook in some demographics is above ity peak. The company however was able to acquire Instagram and keep Snapshot in a niche. Will be interesting how much TikTok will takeover in attention time. But for now they have a money printing machine and a good foundation. Europe unfortunately is too weak unless they convince the U.S.
- nabla9 5y agoI think you remember wrong. iPhone was not one more thing announcement. In 2007 One more thing was Safari for Windows. Here is list: https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/one-more-thing-3793072/ https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/one-more-thing-3793072/
- rchaud 5y agoI thonk the iPhone announcement was at a one-off January event, different from their regular event int the fall.
- jb1991 5y ago> announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation how does FB changing their name affect their chances at regulation?
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoJust guessing: now Meta is a holding company of various social media "companies" so it'll be a bit harder to make a case that one company has a monopoly on the internet social media advertising. They can even list Instagram on the market selling maybe a 5% equity.
- edgriebel 5y ago> rebrand to avoid government regulation Aww, kids are so cute when they're having a temper tantrum
- _2d30 5y agoImagine thinking FB execs are so stupid that this was the impetus for the decision: > "One More Thing" is the announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation.
- shuckles 5y agoiPhone was not announced as a One More Thing at Macworld 2007. It was a direct transition from the Apple TV segment.
- arnaudsm 5y agoThank you for pointing it out, that's an huge Mandela effect
- hbn 5y agoIt's not the hardest thing to see how people would all make the assumption that he said it during the announcement "One more thing" was a famous Jobs quote for major announcements, and the iPhone had possibly the most famous tech announcement ever, let alone of Jobs'. There was also a famous line where he says "these aren't 3 products, this is one device," which also has the word "one" in it.
- gulbrandr 5y ago> to avoid government regulation Could you elaborate on that please?