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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by machiaweliczny on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:04AM (#35538992)
My understanding is that he pushes hard in hardware department to pivot into company like Apple because without owning hardware and OS he knows that FB days are numbered. Especially when privacy will take some steam in US
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by machiaweliczny on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:06AM (#35539018)
The other strategy might be going WeChat but that’s still more risky and there is Twitter that will probably compete with that.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by koonsolo on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:22AM (#35540174)
No idea why you are getting downvoted. This indeed would explain why they want to do it themselves. No other startup can manage that scope.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by tltimeline2 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:10PM (#35547736)
Instead of trying to create some FB vertical, a better strategy would've been to let the growing VR community of those years keep stewing, while sticking to the hardware and core software side to keep the tech moving forward. We had amazing things happening for a time, and the oculus purchase has basically made VR cringe and killed pc vr at the same time.
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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by ulfw on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:41AM (#35541610)
That is exactly it. It's not the first time Zuckerberg went into that direction and failed.

He tried the same with the mobile market (and was ridiculously late in the game with a not-much-differentiating offering, not unlike Amazon). I guess he didn't want to make that mistake again and tried to be early in VR, which seemed the 'next big thing' for him for some reason.

https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-p...

He dabbled in crypto thing when that was all the hype. Didn't end any better. https://www.ft.com/content/a88fb591-72d5-4b6b-bb5d-223adfb89...

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