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phx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Meh. If they’ve still got some free ones to give out I’ll take it.

But in all seriousness, the Quest 2 is pretty good hardware, especially for the price. The problem is that Meta tried to build an ecosystem around monetization and then bring people in, rather than building something that appeals to most people and still allows them to profit. Kinda the opposite of the Facebook model really, which became a defacto online community and kinda kept the monetization a little quieter or behind the scenes for a long time

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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They could release the best possible VR hardware that puts your body into a dream state and allows you to experience things fully in VR for $99 and I still wouldn’t touch it if meta, fb, or zuckberg has anything to do with it.

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- Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Iirc these headsets require your Facebook login to function at all?
  
  Nope nope nope.
  
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  - bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They fixed that. Still need to make a meta account but it’s not Facebook.
    
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    Guntrigger@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Surely that is the exact same thing?
    
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    grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Needing any account to use hardware I own is a 100% deal-breaker.
    
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luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I wonder: Did the people who successfully pulled off the Facebook strategy get replaced by dumber, greedier ones, did they get overruled by dumber, greedier decision-makers, did they get overconfident and thought their current market position would let Meta get away with it, or did they get lucky in the first place and fail to take any notes on why it worked?

Corporations tend to run on “if it works, why change?” so mixing up your entire strategy to this degree seems like it must’ve been a deliberate decision. I’m just curious who made that decision, and by what reasoning.

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- LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Now they have to show rising numbers to shareholders quarterly. They can’t play the long game anymore. They need results every quarter, even if it sinks the company on the long run.
  
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  - luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Capitalism was a mistake. The only innovation it breeds is how to exploit things for money.
    
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    LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It works when the company is growing. But when it has reached 100% of their potential users, the only growth is greed and that’s where it fails.
    
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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  or did they get lucky in the first place and fail to take any notes on why it worked?
  
  Yes.
  
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Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They tried to speed run the enshittification process.

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