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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by mandevil on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:51PM (#29030915)
Counterpoint: the HTC First (aka the Facebook Phone) was >$1 USD less than a month after it debuted, and still was a gigantic flop. Facebook Portal has sold ~1 million units. Oculus has sold ~8 million units or so (all numbers based on quick googling, might be wrong). So people reject Facebook hardware all the time, and they don't actually have that much in the way of hits in the HW space.
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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by perryizgr8 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:17PM (#29034440)
The phone is a bad example. It was a shitty phone. There was absolutely no advantage to using it.

On the other hand, oculus is state of the art in virtual reality. I don't know if any other hardware or ecosystem as well developed as theirs is.

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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by FormerBandmate on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:21PM (#29032195)
It was $1 on a two-year contract. It was also a bad phone. That really doesn’t say much
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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by Apocryphon on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:45PM (#29032448)
It says that they’re lacking in the hardware department.
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