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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by rchaud »

vineyardmike wrote: post #386
IceWreck wrote: post #197

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> If "Meta" is the new ARPANET, I wonder what the new CERN and web will be. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. This so called "Metaverse" will be another proprietary project that may or may not gain traction unless they open it up for federation. And facebook is all about walled gardens so they won't. And if they do, how do we know that 10 years later they wont shutter up their instance, cut off the federated parts to…

> And facebook is all about walled gardens so they won't. They had tons of Open APIs and stuff until people abused it and the CEO had to go to congress, so idk if the blame is solely on the company.

Sounds like they don't have the capability to deal with bad actors.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by bernardv »

There is a significant likelihood that this metaverse concept will flop. To stake the company’s namesake on it is unwise. It really seems like this is combination of committee think + a knee jerk reaction to its recent public spanking.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by spookthesunset »

adpirz wrote: post #233
ra7 wrote: post #119

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Don’t like Facebook one bit, but Zuck is almost always spot on with his bets. So yes, incredibly scary as it has a high likelihood of succeeding.

This discounts a lot of failures and products without real success: - Facebook Apps - Facebook Home - Facebook Workplace - Facebook Portal - Facebook Essentials What he's done well: found promising competition and subsumed them. I think AR is going to be a huge part of the future. I don't think Facebook is going to lead that effort, not because I don't want them to (though I don't), but because they don't have a trac…

Don't forget their weird crypto thing....

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by rchaud »

fairity wrote: post #582

I get that it's popular to shit on Facebook and its CEO, but a lot of you seem to be dismissing the metaverse vision out of hand. It seems obvious to me that humans will eventually spend a significant amount of time in VR. The question is not if but when. As tech advances, eventually, VR environments will feel close to identical to IRL environments. And, when that happens, there is no reason to bear the commute costs…

Yeah and AI will be big too one day, but that doesn’t mean IBM Watson's going to corner the market.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by spookthesunset »

odiroot wrote: post #532
dbish wrote: post #8

MANGA sounds more fun then FAANG so that’s nice

Can we finally remove Netflix which doesn't fit in here? We can always replace it with Microsoft.

Yeah, I dunno how netflix is in that acronym and not Microsoft. If you are gonna put in "netflix" might as well include salesforce, dropbox or github.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by spookthesunset »

floren wrote: post #331
coolspot wrote: post #264

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Twitter is 100 times more toxic than FB, but somehow everyone is focused on FB. I guess someone powerful is annoyed.

Journalists live their lives on Twitter.

The last 1.75 fuckin' years have in part been because of the fact journalists and politicians live on twitter. These dudes think pleasing twitter mobs is more important than actual real life people.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by rchaud »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #281

I know most of us aren't looking forward to a future with Facebook in control, but ask yourself: How many times has Zuckerberg been wrong about tech trends? I can't think of a single time. He's gotten every major investment correct. This metaverse idea will either be the first major Facebook misstep, or it's a future we should embrace sooner than later. You stand to win big if you're an early adopter on any given pla…

Zuck getting acquisitions of already popular products right is not the same as creating popular products from scratch.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by etempleton »

I would be concerned, but I don’t really know if Facebook, umm, erm, Meta has the follow through to actually make this a reality.

How many times have they had Mark Zuckerberg come out talk about some future product or idea that never came to fruition?

Remember the faked home automation personal assistant video that Mark did a few years ago and how that was the future?

This is what this company does. They unveil an idea and faked tech demo before they even know if they can execute upon it in a meaningful way and then never talk about it again, because it ends up they can’t do what they promised.

Now I am sure they will do something here since they have the VR tech, but I just don’t believe they are going to create anything more than second life in VR.

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