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Facebook cannot make products, its that simple.
by KaiserPro 9mo ago
Facebook cannot make products, its that simple.
- epolanski 9mo agoOculus?
- raw_anon_1111 9mo agoThat division is losing billions a year. I wouldn’t call it a success
- toast0 9mo agoAcquired
- KaiserPro 9mo agoI worked for oculus, well reality labs. Lots of talented people, and decent hardware, once the stupid politics was overcome. But. In all the time I worked there, we never managed to get "join my friends" feature get made. Trying to join your friends in a game was so fucking hard. You'd think being a social company, who's whole point is connecting people, this would be the first feature. But no. Threads is the only product they have launched in the last 5 years that anything close to successful. Even then it only launched because management ignored it, let them get an MVP out the door before swelling the size of the team from ~8(?) to >>2k The time to fun was also waaay too high. it got better towards the end, but in 2020-2023 it would take ages to log in, update, load, get kicked out, reboot and then join.
- utopiah 9mo agoDid they make though or did they buy? What did they actually buy that wasn't already done at Valve?
- swiftcoder 9mo agoOculus was shipping hardware/software before the Facebook acquisition, and proceeded to slowly bleed out post-acquisition. We shipped a few decent VR headsets in the middle there (Quest 1, 2 and 2s/3), but most of the other initiatives within Meta's reality labs withered on the corporate vine...
- jokethrowaway 9mo agoOr Google Large companies struggle to launch anything due to their staff size. They're as inefficient as a government
- GeorgeOldfield 9mo agohow is apple, overall, so good at this?
- scotty79 9mo agoIs it though?
- ranger_danger 9mo agoTheir revenue last year was 400 billion dollars... you tell us.
- scotty79 9mo agoThey are still milking the product they launched 20 years ago, doing slight periodic updates to match innovations of others with few years delay. They are about as good at making new products as Google and Facebook.
- ranger_danger 9mo agoI'd say it depends on your definition of "good", since the revenue seems to suggest they're doing something most people agree with.
- bloppe 9mo agoBy that logic, the online scam industry is shipping the best products of all time. By some estimates they make over a trillion a year.