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>Google, you’re charging into battle with Apple and Zuck and you got a dildo made of American cheese. Good luck. Zuck's vision is trash to the point I question
by rl3 5y ago
>Google, you’re charging into battle with Apple and Zuck and you got a dildo made of American cheese. Good luck.
Zuck's vision is trash to the point I question whether the man's had an original idea in his life, so I'm not completely discounting the American cheese monstrosity as somehow prevailing.
I don't really care for Apple either, but I suspect they're going to "win" by virtue of focus and culture alone.
Of course, if any of these three entities win, it is the world that loses. Rather, continues to lose—depending on how you look at it.
- urthor 5y agoWhilst I'm all for ragging on Facebook's missteps, their vision seems pretty good if I was in Zuc's shoes. They want to be vertically integrated, discount Apple in this space. They're deploying cost effective hardware combined with vertically integrated software stacks that "just work." And they are leveraging things Facebook does extremely well, targeting extreme volume for cost amortization, UX and building microtransaction loops. Like it or not those are things you can't say Facebook is bad at that stuff generally speaking. Everything about the Facebook metaverse vision is cynical from a societal aspect. But the business case is fine. They won't make any money for about 10 years, but after 10-15 years of Quest like products, they will be doing well for themselves.
- rl3 5y ago>Whilst I'm all for ragging on Facebook's missteps ... I prefer ragging on their very existence, but to each their own. :) Certainly not disputing they know how to make money. I'm sure they'll make a killing on AR/Metaverse bullshit.
- pjmlp 5y agoUsers of React, React Native, Folley, GHC, Flow,.... seem to appreciate their existence.
- monkeynotes 5y agoI think it's possible to respect the software their developers create and dislike the business goals and cynical approach to making money. Facebook has made some wonderful software, and it has fundamentally degraded humanity.
- pjmlp 5y agoNot when that software is made with blood money, so to speak. This is what I find so hypocritical on Facebook complaints, washing over how the meat for the sausage is paid for and the animal was slaughtered, only because it tastes good and the complainers want more of it on their plate. If what Facebook does is so amoral then don't use software paid with selling their customers' data.