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It’s not too late. The money they spent is a sunk cost. If all they did was say, “We are going to milk advertising and give our cash to shareholders” they woul
by mathattack 4y ago
It’s not too late. The money they spent is a sunk cost. If all they did was say, “We are going to milk advertising and give our cash to shareholders” they would do just fine.
Or they could focus on creating the next social network.
But… Maybe just maybe they pull this off. I just have a great idea on Mark’s product intuition, since so much of Meta’s growth has been data analysis driven.
- moolcool 4y ago> But… Maybe just maybe they pull this off It would be bad if they pull it off. I dread the day draconian call center employers make their workers put on headsets and track their eye movements for 8 hours a day, all while charging them for a virtual cubicle with a view. Look at the marketing materials for their latest headset, that's the way it's going.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoGranted in more bullish on VR than most, but I'm skeptical of the scenario you're dreading- outside of the world "virtual" I think that entire situation is possible today, but it hasn't happened yet. Call center employees are already required to wear headsets, and if you're sitting in front of a laptop there's nothing technical preventing your employer from implementing an eye-tracking computer vision powered panopticon.
- moolcool 4y agoAll I'm saying is that it's not a coincidence that Adobe Acrobat and Dropbox are the top-billed apps for Meta Quest Pro