Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees

Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees by oblio on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:18AM (#47889802)

1. If it scales worldwide. There's a decent chance that considering current global geopolitics, China will never allow them in, India and the EU will probably do the same or favor local competitors, Africa/Latin America will probably not have the money to tier 1 markets, which kind of leaves the US + Anglosphere.

2. If it captures most of the transportation market. That's debatable because self-driving tech works even better for trains, trams, subways, buses, etc. And that's before we go into other self-driving car companies.

3. If it becomes truly production ready within the next 10 years or so. By "truly production ready" I mean a Uber/taxi competitor in at least 20 alpha global cities outside of the US. Otherwise yeah, it's going to be a great tech but with a 30+ years ROI.

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Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees by konschubert on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:32AM (#47890036)

I didn’t say that Waymo will be a commercial success or that there won’t be copycats more successful.

But waymo created the category by showing it is possible.

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