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Zero of whom pay for the product. They are the product. What this leaves out is that the real customers, advertisers, already have a fully-functional hyperscal
by titzer 2y ago
Zero of whom pay for the product. They are the product.
What this leaves out is that the real customers, advertisers, already have a fully-functional hyperscale system creeping on users and pushing ads in their face. It's akin to crowing about how fast you can put up new billboard ads when the billboards are already built--someone else has already put in the power/network lines, poles, screens, routing, etc, and you just hooked up your existing ad feeds to it. Facebook doesn't give two shits if the billboards were in the middle of nowhere, as long as they can charge their advertisers some $$, they'd deliver seizure-inducing hallucinogenic drugs right into users' veins.
- WJW 2y agoIf you can put up new billboard ads ten times as fast as your competitors, that's still a competitive advantage. Whether you like Meta or not, two days to provide sufficient infra for a new service with 100m users is a technical achievement that not many organizations on the planet could match.