I think the actual history is that they built them for internal videocalling inside FB and then decided to sell them without really doing the research on the ou

I think the actual history is that they built them for internal videocalling inside FB and then decided to sell them without really doing the research on the outside market. 1. "Man videoconferencing totally blows and is really expensive!" [1] "We've got lots of smart people and expertise in streaming video from live events, bet we could knock together a solution in no time" (a team builds internal FB solution) 2. "Man our internal FB videoconferencing rules! It's a shame all those plebes in the wider world can't experience how great this is" "What if we take the gizmo we've built for every meeting room and turn it into a consumer device?" 3. <don't worry about step 3> 4. Profit! [1]This was absolutely the case circa like 2012. Cisco had the only really decent enterprise option and it was really expensive. All the other ones couldn't interoperate and were terrible.