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A comment on Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO. Parent comment

Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by prostoalex on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:10PM (#31587354)
> The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it.

We should not confuse the technology with the use case. Once you are the standard-bearer on technology, any future use case is something you can easily piggyback and dominate.

E.g. early versions of iPhone did not support NFC payments, while some competitor models did. Nevertheless, Apple Pay is fairly dominant.

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Re:Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO by joshstrange on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:09PM (#31588165)
> Nevertheless, Apple Pay is fairly dominant.

I ran stats on an event I wrote software for, Apple Pay was 70%+ of all 1-click checkouts, Google Pay was under 30%. I was a little shocked at the difference though after spending more time trying to develop for Google Pay I can't help but wonder if that factors in. That and them renaming it every other week and removing features, it's a dumpster fire here in the US from what I can see. I've only ever seen my friends use Samsung Pay on their Androids.

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