> nor are they really a software company in the same vein as some companies who make/create an operating system or an ecosystem from the ground up they are more

> nor are they really a software company in the same vein as some companies who make/create an operating system or an ecosystem from the ground up they are more of an parasitic website company with delusions of Grandeur. Not a fan of Meta but this is a rather unfair statement to make. They're pretty knee deep in low level systems + hardware-software co-design.