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The word "if" is going to throw a disc with all the heavy lifting it is doing in that statement. If Facebook can solve all these huge technical hurdles they ne
by giantrobot 4y ago
The word "if" is going to throw a disc with all the heavy lifting it is doing in that statement.
If Facebook can solve all these huge technical hurdles they need to do so in an affordable device. Then they need to develop the operations capacity to actually build and support them. Then they need to make a compelling experience that normal users would actually want.
Facebook does not have a history of executing on those things. They also don't look like they're making any moves to be able to execute on those things.
- threeseed 4y agoAs of last year Quest 2 was outselling the Xbox. So clearly Meta does know to ship a popular device at scale.
- giantrobot 4y agoThe best numbers I can find for the Quest 2 are five million sold last year with 4 million recalled. The current XBox is estimated to have sold around 13 million units. Even if the Quest's sales have kept pace this year so has the XBox. So your claim sounds suspect. You'll also note 5 million is a twentieth of Apple's iPhone sales. So even if Facebook solves all of their other problems they have to ramp up production 2000% to "replace" Apple. That is a heavy fucking lift from where they are right now. When the iPhone was released it did what dumb phones did and then some. It's killer apps were the media playback and the Internet. Facebook has yet to demonstrate a killer app for their VR.