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Facebook missed the boat to from Web to Mobile. It's hoping to catch the boat to next step, first it was VR (Oculus acquisition) now it's 'Metaverse'. It also m
by Rastonbury 5y ago
Facebook missed the boat to from Web to Mobile. It's hoping to catch the boat to next step, first it was VR (Oculus acquisition) now it's 'Metaverse'. It also missed the move to voice (Siri, Alexa, OK Google).
I wouldn't have been able to predict the proliferation of iPhone or touchscreen which started the shift to mobile back in the 2000s, but the value proposition of Mobile is clear, do everything and get enabled by apps on your phone via touchscreen interface.
I don't see the value of shifting things to somewhere else like a metaverse especially if you have to put on a headset and linking things from different 'worlds' together. I can now use my phone for email, watch TV, pay my bill and transfer money. I suppose the next step would be a holographic AI assistant following me around the world doing the same. It would have to be ubiquitous.
When I look at NFTs being able to the portable between worlds I have no idea what I'd use that for. Maybe it's unspoken but Zuck has aspirations to eventually let everyone get a brain-implant to alter conciousness to plug into the Metaverse like the Matrix and no body is talking about it because of how ludicrous it sounds today, if this is eventually made possible no doubt that Zuck wants Meta to be the company who does it (CTRL Labs).