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If they'd taken that $60 billion and doled it out in free headsets to high schools and colleges (stripped of cynical phone-home functions and opened up for tink
by h2zizzle 1y ago
If they'd taken that $60 billion and doled it out in free headsets to high schools and colleges (stripped of cynical phone-home functions and opened up for tinkering), plus a substantial number of no-strings-attached $10k grants, they'd have 50 killer apps by now. I know that they did smaller scale versions of this, but most funding must have gone to dead-end in-house initiatives like their "metaverse" offerings; Zuckerberg's lust for control will be his undoing.
Also, screw them for trying to co-opt the term "metaverse".
- cmrdporcupine 1y agoYeah, Meta doesn't want "killer apps" for a headset or whatever. They want a "place" they control and monopolize to box people into and then feed them cack and discourage them from ever leaving. Like their "social" media products, but even more immersive and totalizing.