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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by istorical on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:22PM (#28934970)
This is a bit like saying 'vacuum tubes are too fragile and always break, computers will never succeed'.

That being said, I do think FB will succeed on the hardware front but flounder on the software front unless they somehow completely reinvent themselves and stop being so "Disney".

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by peter_retief on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:43PM (#28935253)
Vacuum tubes? Didn't they get replaced with transistors, are they fragile?
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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by istorical on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:50PM (#28991605)
My point was that your comment "VR makes most people nauseous" is criticizing the metaphorical vacuum tubes of VR/AR - IE: current VR/AR implementation != all possible VR/AR implementation. So you're criticizing the growing pains period but the medium itself doesn't necessitate nausea. And in fact there has already been tremendous advances in both hardware and software to mitigate nausea.
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