> Contrast that with the generative AI models revolution. It's clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be, and that they are providing clear v

> Contrast that with the generative AI models revolution. It's clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be, and that they are providing clear value right away. It's no wonder that all the companies are immediately pivoting towards it. Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was just unlucky to decide on a company pivot two years too early -- I'm sure that if he had to decide on a direction to pivot to today, it'd be towards generative AI. I think fundamentally Facebook is not a product company and is consequently bad at actually making products. Apple has been moving very cautiously on the AR/VR front in contrast. Granted, Apple moves cautiously on everything, but they do seem more intentional about what to leave up to users to figure out on their own vs the Facebook approach of assuming you can just solve the interesting engineering problems and have the cool technology and people will just figure out how to use it. Smart watches and smartphones existed for a while before the Apple Watch and the iPhone, but what really kicked off the market for them was just a design that put it out there for people to explore with it so Apple could then iterate and figure out what the real niche was. But that will never happen if your initial test cases are just tech nerds. Tech nerds love the technology qua technology too much to figure out why things are interesting outside that.