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My understanding is that he pushes hard in hardware department to pivot into company like Apple because without owning hardware and OS he knows that FB days are
by machiaweliczny 4y ago
My understanding is that he pushes hard in hardware department to pivot into company like Apple because without owning hardware and OS he knows that FB days are numbered. Especially when privacy will take some steam in US
- machiaweliczny 4y agoThe other strategy might be going WeChat but that’s still more risky and there is Twitter that will probably compete with that.
- koonsolo 4y agoNo idea why you are getting downvoted. This indeed would explain why they want to do it themselves. No other startup can manage that scope.
- tltimeline2 4y agoInstead of trying to create some FB vertical, a better strategy would've been to let the growing VR community of those years keep stewing, while sticking to the hardware and core software side to keep the tech moving forward. We had amazing things happening for a time, and the oculus purchase has basically made VR cringe and killed pc vr at the same time.
- ulfw 4y agoThat is exactly it. It's not the first time Zuckerberg went into that direction and failed. He tried the same with the mobile market (and was ridiculously late in the game with a not-much-differentiating offering, not unlike Amazon). I guess he didn't want to make that mistake again and tried to be early in VR, which seemed the 'next big thing' for him for some reason. https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-phone-5081980 https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-p... He dabbled in crypto thing when that was all the hype. Didn't end any better. https://www.ft.com/content/a88fb591-72d5-4b6b-bb5d-223adfb893f3 https://www.ft.com/content/a88fb591-72d5-4b6b-bb5d-223adfb89...