• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Zuckerberg’s determination is to build these products as fast as possible, which will only heighten tensions. “If you build too slowly,” he said in an interview on the Access podcast, per the FT, ”then you are just out of position on what I think is going to be the most important technology that enables the most new product and innovation and value creation in history.”

    Important enough to rename your company after, Mark?

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      23 days ago

      to build these products as fast as possible

      Without considering if it’s even possible at all. But they’ve probably convinced themselves it is and now sunk cost will keep them going.

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        22 days ago

        Boomers, as we all know, are extremely tech literate, and in tune with modern digital culture.

        … when it comes to the ‘metaverse’, they pretty much could not have picked something they were more clueless about.

        As I said in another comment… VRChat already existed, when the Meta transition happened.

        They spent tens of billions of dollars and couldn’t figure out how to even match VRChat.

        If Facebook wanted to try and do the Metaverse… they should have just bought VRChat, figure out some way to patent-fuck them into accepting that.

        That way there would at least not be an alternative to go to after they ruin it.

        … why am I not making 50 million dollars a year as an industry consultant?

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          21 days ago

          They should’ve done all initial meetings about the metavers in VR chat to see if it was such s great idea. But I guess there was a much fatter paycheck in it for saying the classics words: “Great idea boss!”

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            21 days ago

            Pretty much.

            They’re all egomaniacs, they need to be cut down to size, one way or another, or they will literally kill us all, and then pout about how no is left to appreciate them.

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      23 days ago

      He’s a lottery winner who digitized a concept proven to work with paper. This is all of Silicon Valley. They were out of ideas years ago to convince people to adopt, so now the model is force people to adopt.

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    22 days ago

    You know zillion may be a fun word to write, but when writing a news article I think using real numbers might be more helpful.