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Facebook Launches Podcast and Live Audio Room Services

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Re: Facebook Launches Podcast and Live Audio Room Services

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post #8

Is breathtaking the amount of effort Facebook has spent xeroxing other products. I’m still amused by how they had their own online game show because of the success of HQ Trivia.

Facebook... and Spotify, and Twitter. They've all got Clubhouse clones going now. Sometimes I find the state of 'innovation' in large tech companies a little depressing...

Discord, too.

Re: Facebook Launches Podcast and Live Audio Room Services

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post #10
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook... and Spotify, and Twitter. They've all got Clubhouse clones going now. Sometimes I find the state of 'innovation' in large tech companies a little depressing...

The big players can only copy or buy up.

> only

That’s a bold statement.

Re: Facebook Launches Podcast and Live Audio Room Services

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post #8

Is breathtaking the amount of effort Facebook has spent xeroxing other products. I’m still amused by how they had their own online game show because of the success of HQ Trivia.

Facebook... and Spotify, and Twitter. They've all got Clubhouse clones going now. Sometimes I find the state of 'innovation' in large tech companies a little depressing...

It's probably true that they cannot resist cloning existing feature that's already working.

But to cheer you up, FB is putting lots of efforts (rumor goes 10000 folks) working on AR/VR. That's quite a lot innovation :)

Re: Facebook Launches Podcast and Live Audio Room Services

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook... and Spotify, and Twitter. They've all got Clubhouse clones going now. Sometimes I find the state of 'innovation' in large tech companies a little depressing...

It's probably true that they cannot resist cloning existing feature that's already working. But to cheer you up, FB is putting lots of efforts (rumor goes 10000 folks) working on AR/VR. That's quite a lot innovation :)

Working on putting ads in VR by the sounds of it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532243

Re: Facebook Launches Podcast and Live Audio Room Services

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post #15

This whole format is a dead end. Clubhouse user growth and engagement is stalled out (and likely in decline). Not that Facebook minds. The millions spent cloning Clubhouse are a rounding error on their financial statements.

Clubhouse has been amazing though. I hope it can sustain. Discussions on it are much, much better than Twitter nonsense.
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