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Apple filed 5000 patents. Meta can’t even figure out where the field is now.

• galkk 3y ago
  I hardly believe that with all headstart that oculus/mega had they don’t have enough patents to ensure mutually assured destruction
  • zmmmmm 3y ago
    It's amazing how seamlessly people have switched from relentlessly mocking Meta's investment in VR to pretending it never happened
    • steve_adams_86 3y ago
      Perhaps Apple entering the space with such significant investment lends some validation to Meta’s efforts.
      • smoldesu 3y ago
        N-no! It can't be. Meta is the company that my favorite company hates!
  • Panini_Jones 3y ago
    There's always the defense that he engineer wasn't aware of the patent.
    • Dylan16807 3y ago
      That just gets you out of paying triple damages.
• pavlov 3y ago
  This is exactly what Jobs claimed about the iPhone in 2007 and it didn’t stop Android from absorbing every relevant innovation.
  • Invictus0 3y ago
    Jobs was exactly right to say that iPhone was 5 years ahead of the competition. The competition at that time wasn't Android, it was blackberry.
    • pavlov 3y ago
      Android shipped their first public beta in 2007. Its development overlapped the iPhone, and similarly the development of the standalone Quest systems has overlapped the Vision Pro. There are most likely enough patents on both sides to render these portfolio boasts moot, once again.
      • alaskamiller 3y ago
        No one was using Android phones in 2007. It was BlackBerry and Moto Q days.
    • throw9away6 3y ago
      Android was ahead for a long time 3-4 generations only recently had Apple jumped ahead, basically after Google killed affordable nexus devices that was the turning point