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On the one hand, sure. Facebook's brand is about as hip as a bag of Werther's Originals. On the other hand, this is one of those things (like VR) that is a dis
by smoldesu 4y ago
On the one hand, sure. Facebook's brand is about as hip as a bag of Werther's Originals.
On the other hand, this is one of those things (like VR) that is a distinctly non-Facebook project. It makes no sense to position or market this as "Facebook" research. The Homepod isn't called the iPod Home for obvious reasons, so it stands to reason that Facebook execs realized selling someone a "Facebook Quest" sounds like a metaphor for ayahuasca. It's not entirely stupid to rebrand, especially considering how diverse (and undeniably advanced) they've become in fields like AI and VR.
- oefnak 4y agoI actively avoid everything that has anything to do with Facebook, and I can't be the only one.
- smoldesu 4y agoYeah, me too. I also avoid everything Apple and Google makes, but I'm not going to pretend like the Alphabet rebranding is their attempt at hiding who they are.
- xiphias2 4y agoAlphabet wasn't a rebranding: the founding billionaires got bored of Google, and wanted to take out a few billion dollars per year out of it to create new toys without sharing it with Google.
- throwaway290 4y agoEver used React or PyTorch? Well, this is same. Developers make good stuff regardless of where they work, and good on FB for contributing But yeah if you do open source adding an element of corporate branding is a sure way to kill the project. That's why it's not called "Apple Swift" or "Microsoft TypeScript".
- deltree7 4y agoYes, many humans make irrational decisions like you
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