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Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

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Post by gattac_janitor »

What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.

Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

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gattac_janitor wrote: post #5

What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.

Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now?

Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.

Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

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Post by bmitc »

0xy wrote: post #6
gattac_janitor wrote: post #5

What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.

Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now? Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.

Was it just because WhatsApp was already generally well designed when they purchased it?

Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

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Post by addaon »

0xy wrote: post #6
gattac_janitor wrote: post #5

What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.

Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now? Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.

8x scaling over a time period where the available size and performance of single-image systems increased by more than 8x seems… if not trivial, at least not an “insane achievement.”

Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

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Post by tristanj »

gattac_janitor wrote: post #5

What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.

Threads? They have 400m monthly active users and 100m+ daily active users. Though, its userbase likely does not intersect with your interests.

Meta Ray-Ban glasses are also a massive success.

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