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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by shuckles on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:20AM (#33532813)
iPhone was speculated about as an Apple product for years by the media before it came out. Newsweek even did a cover story about it.
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by bombcar on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:23AM (#33532870)
Versus "windows phone" in its fifty billion iterations which was exactly what OP talked about.

If Facebook had quietly (and they were for the longest time!) continued to work on Oculus and done some internal skunkworks projects, instead of a big PR push and a company rename, maybe they could pull an iPhone.

Personally, I think they drank the meta verse koolaid to get everyone to stop talking about election interference and other things that were being blamed on them, and I think it mostly worked.

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