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I think most of us really wanted Oculus to be an insanely great technology, not Facebook's "diversification strategy".
by bradgessler 13y ago
I think most of us really wanted Oculus to be an insanely great technology, not Facebook's "diversification strategy".
- AznHisoka 13y agoexactly. FB has experience with stuffing LOLCat pics in your FB feed. Not innovative tech.
- karangoeluw 13y agoDefine "Not innovative tech"
- hueving 13y agoDid he not just say, "stuffing lolcats into your feed?"
- cheald 13y agoI'm not much a fan of Facebook, but it's only fair to give them credit where credit is due - things like Cassandra, HHVM/Hack, and React are all pretty important technologies, and their datacenter needs mean they've built an internal competency for hardware, too. I don't think this move makes obvious sense, but Facebook The Company (as opposed to Facebook The Product) is more than just an RSS feed of lolcats.
- xerophtye 13y ago>FB has experience with stuffing LOLCat pics in your FB feed Seriously? Are you really saying that it's FB's evil plan to stuff cat pictures in your pictures? And not the fualt of those with whom you connect on FB? It's rather sad how so many people just think of FB as a "website" and not realize the truly innovative efforts they must go through to keep it running as such a massive scale. Not to mention, they built their own servers and pushed initiatives to help the whole industry set up proper infrastructures to achieve massive scale
- sentenza 13y agoIt's also weird how many don't see the big white elephant in the room: People hate Facebook. For about 3-4 months now, whenever I talk to a non-techie and Facebook comes up _they_ start complaining and telling me how they're trying to get away from it. They even mention other services that are connected with Facebook (Instagram, What's App)! Is this happening only here in Germany? I was definitely surprised to be back in "the mainstream".
- s3r3nity 13y agoThere could be multiple interpretations: 1) People hate Facebook in the same way I hate cheesecake: Facebook does such a good job at hooking me in and spending so much time reading content that it's a delicious evil. I hate how cheesecake makes it so irresistible and would like to eat less of it, but that doesn't make cheesecake bad per se. =) 2) Not everyone does hate Facebook, it's just the Yelp effect: you're more likely to hear about how someone hating on something MUCH MORE than you are likely to hear about someone loving (hell, even just _liking_) a product/service/etc. My buddies and I connect on FB messenger all the time and find it convenient, but we're not going to rave about it on all comment boards, Reddit, etc. (Sidebar: I find that it's more of the exception, rather than the rule, when the Yelp effect is broken. For example, Evernote made a killing off primarily word of mouth in its early development, and people rave about it everywhere.)
- threeseed 13y ago> People hate Facebook This is complete and utter nonsense. People would not be using the site if they did.
- libraryatnight 13y agoI haven't had a facebook account in some time, but when I did I hated it. I used it because there was this fear that I'd miss something, I'd be left out of some loop.Once I left, I realized that was nonsense, the people who mattered text, call, or email me. My dad hates facebook, but he uses it because there's some family and friends on there that make him feel obligated to stick around. Breaking away is easier than it seems at first, but there are plenty of people who dislike facebook who still use it.
- virgil_disgr4ce 13y agoWell... those are not mutually exclusive, as far as I can tell.