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Instead of investing 10 Billion in VR, seems like Meta should have built a phone as good as the iPhone but cheaper since advertising on phones is their bread an

Instead of investing 10 Billion in VR, seems like Meta should have built a phone as good as the iPhone but cheaper since advertising on phones is their bread and butter

ideamotor 4y ago
I agree and yet can you even imagine how dated and terrible it would be?
- lern_too_spel 4y ago
  You don't have to imagine. https://readwrite.com/top-10-tech-failures-of-2013/ https://readwrite.com/top-10-tech-failures-of-2013/
rtev 4y ago
Brilliant. How did they miss this opportunity and double down on VR?
- tablespoon 4y ago
  >> Instead of investing 10 Billion in VR, seems like Meta should have built a phone as good as the iPhone but cheaper since advertising on phones is their bread and butter > Brilliant. How did they miss this opportunity and double down on VR? They tried building a phone when Facebook was more trusted, and it failed. A Facebook Phone project in 2022 would almost certainly be doomed to failure. IIRC, VR was an acquisition and it's more of a wide-open area than phones, so it's more plausible (but still unlikely) they could see success there.
  - BizarroLand 4y ago
    When I heard that facebook was buying oculus I honestly believed that it was a terrible idea and that it would ruin what VR can be in a soulless, dirty, ugly corporate cashgrab that made no sense and that was ill-guided, ill-intended, and hopeless. I had no idea that they would completely fail to do a cashgrab and instead make the entire experience either so expensive or so terrible that no one would want to participate in it.
  - riku_iki 4y ago
    > A Facebook Phone project in 2022 would almost certainly be doomed to failure. it should be Free/Open Phone in 2022. Facebook is interested in free platform without any garden walls, so no one rent seek from their platform.
amadeuspagel 4y ago
They tried with the HTC First[1], which was a total failure. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First
solardev 4y ago
It'd have one app and a button: a long feed that shows you occasional text messages between the ads, and one giant thumbs-up with VR Mark smiling back at you.
- rtev 4y ago
  Finally, Facebook has stumbled on a product the masses actually want.
sharemywin 4y ago
How can you get all your stuff transferred over. songs, apps, games everything else you bought and already paid for.
- mikymoothrowa 4y ago
  We used to have this problem. Thankfully most of these media is subscription now
  - HWR_14 4y ago
    Wow, so we're in the "(IP asset) poverty is freedom" level of social decay?

Instead of investing 10 Billion in VR, seems like Meta should have built a phone as good as the iPhone but cheaper since advertising on phones is their bread and butter

ideamotor 4y ago

I agree and yet can you even imagine how dated and terrible it would be?

lern_too_spel 4y ago
You don't have to imagine. https://readwrite.com/top-10-tech-failures-of-2013/ https://readwrite.com/top-10-tech-failures-of-2013/

rtev 4y ago

Brilliant. How did they miss this opportunity and double down on VR?

tablespoon 4y ago
>> Instead of investing 10 Billion in VR, seems like Meta should have built a phone as good as the iPhone but cheaper since advertising on phones is their bread and butter > Brilliant. How did they miss this opportunity and double down on VR? They tried building a phone when Facebook was more trusted, and it failed. A Facebook Phone project in 2022 would almost certainly be doomed to failure. IIRC, VR was an acquisition and it's more of a wide-open area than phones, so it's more plausible (but still unlikely) they could see success there.
- BizarroLand 4y ago
  When I heard that facebook was buying oculus I honestly believed that it was a terrible idea and that it would ruin what VR can be in a soulless, dirty, ugly corporate cashgrab that made no sense and that was ill-guided, ill-intended, and hopeless. I had no idea that they would completely fail to do a cashgrab and instead make the entire experience either so expensive or so terrible that no one would want to participate in it.
- riku_iki 4y ago
  > A Facebook Phone project in 2022 would almost certainly be doomed to failure. it should be Free/Open Phone in 2022. Facebook is interested in free platform without any garden walls, so no one rent seek from their platform.

amadeuspagel 4y ago

They tried with the HTC First[1], which was a total failure. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First

solardev 4y ago

It'd have one app and a button: a long feed that shows you occasional text messages between the ads, and one giant thumbs-up with VR Mark smiling back at you.

rtev 4y ago
Finally, Facebook has stumbled on a product the masses actually want.

sharemywin 4y ago

How can you get all your stuff transferred over. songs, apps, games everything else you bought and already paid for.

mikymoothrowa 4y ago
We used to have this problem. Thankfully most of these media is subscription now
- HWR_14 4y ago
  Wow, so we're in the "(IP asset) poverty is freedom" level of social decay?