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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by algebraically on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:31PM (#29032297)
Facebook/Meta is a consumer company. All the worthwhile applications of remote presence are going to be in industrial spaces that combine robotics with VR. I see no way that Facebook/Meta will do anything worthwhile or useful in that space.
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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by JetSpiegel on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:59PM (#29034049)
> Facebook/Meta is a consumer company.

There's not a single consumer that ever spent 1 dollar on Facebook. It's an advertising company, doing websites and chat apps on the side.

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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by algebraically on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:16PM (#29034128)
How is advertising not about consumption?

Facebook enables consumer activity so it's a consumer company. It does not build industrial robots or enable industrial production of any form.

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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by mads on Friday October 29, 2021 @01:39AM (#29035532)
Its neither. Their core product is surveillance.
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