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Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by alasdair_ on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:12PM (#29032705)
>b) How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free?

$300 * 3 billion people, so $900 Billion give or take which coincidentally is right around the market cap of the entire company.

Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by swyx on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:41PM (#29032962)
retail price != manufacturing price, so say just 2-300 bil
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by usrusr on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:49AM (#29035273)
Freak spikes in demand cause freak spikes in supplier parts prices. Manufacturing volumes of complex goods are quite inelastic. Burst manufacturing price would likely be much higher than steady flow retail prices, not lower. Zuckerberg would basically have to redirect humanities entire smartphone manufacturing capacity for multiple years. Including the part that usually ends up sporting some fruit brand, this wouldn't be cheap at all.
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta by akelly on Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:24PM (#29033362)
Facebook isn't making any money selling headsets at $300