Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is n’t MAGNA better?
Not if you read Japanese comics, or if you speak Portuguese.
It’s a good thing if it clashes with existing words?
Facebook Renames to Meta
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#102Other interesting things said during the keynote: "and frankly, as we've heard your feedback more broadly, we're working on making it so you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account. We're starting to test support for work accounts soon, and we're working on making a broader shift here within the next year. I know this is a big deal for a lot of people. Not everyone wants their social media profile linked to all these other experiences and I get that, especially as the metaverse expands."
Also:
"As big of a company as we are, we've also learned what it is like to build for other platforms. And living under their rules has profoundly shaped my views on the tech industry. Most of all, I've come to believe that the lack of choice and high fees are stifling innovation, stopping people from building new things, and holding back the entire internet economy. [...] We'll continue supporting sideloading and linking to PCs so consumers and developers have choice rather than forcing them to use the Quest store to find apps or reach customers."
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#103If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up (even if contradictory to short-term gains in ad revenue) so it has a chance to grow? Federate it a bit more than they are comfortable with, to at least give it a chance. I could see this flubbing out hard otherwise. I'm personally…
There needs to be many metaverses, and NFT's should be able to be shared between them. It's dangerous to think about the prospect of a major company like Facebook (Or a DAO for that matter) locking up the entire universe.
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#104Still a terrible, terrible organisation that's detrimental to societies and humankind as such.
Is it FB or social media and big tech in general? I'm confused by the laser focus on FB all of a sudden.
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#105If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story. Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up (even if contradictory to short-term gains in ad revenue) so it has a chance to grow? Federate it a bit more than they are comfortable with, to at least give it a chance. I could see this flubbing out hard otherwise. I'm personally…
I thought the market has repeatedly shown there isn't much demand for persistent virtual worlds?
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#106It is been finally admitted. Facebook Inc. aka Meta Inc. is going to kill Apple and put an end to the iPhone. Going to watch this. To Downvoters: Here's a reminder of how wrong the HN bubble was back then: [0] [1] This is the same place that reacted to Facebook acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp to being the dumbest decisions Mark Zuckerberg made and now it became a $1T company with billions in profit and billions in m…
And how are they going to do that? Do they think people will discard their phones, replace them with next-gen Google Glass, live in the "metaverse" and let Zuck listen in on every interaction? Surely this will kill Apple dead.
Exactly, all hail King Zuckerberg?
Snark aside, if something like this virtual world were to be created, I would want more democratic representation, not where one person can rule for life.
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#107They want to own the SEO around the "metaverse", so renaming their company to half the world means they dominate all search around it. Genius move, Mark.
If that was the goal, there are many many ways that a company with the resources of Facebook could dominate rankings for a term without renaming their entire company a subset of that term.
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#108My god, if you get it, you get it. They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself. And they have the money to make it so. This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.
My kneejerk reaction is this will probably waste a lot of their money without much traction. But I'm also happy about Facebook wasting a bunch of their money...
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#109See also: Philip Morris rebranding itself Altria.
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#110Wow, did they pick the last four letter word that wasn't a startup name?