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Facebook Changes Its Name to 'Meta'
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more and more Mark is looking more like Data for TNG than a human.
And Apple’s first response hopefully: Gives the new company a big middle finger and revokes their developer program membership and remove the app from App Store and then use the KILL SWITCH to remotely wipe Facebook app from the phones.
It’s waiting to happen. Meta rebrand is lipstick on a pig. It’s still Facebook.
HMM Mother Zeta from Fallout 3 was about aliens, Now Lets Remove the Z and add the M
META
THIS PROVES IT ZUCK IS A LIZZARD REEEEEE
META
THIS PROVES IT ZUCK IS A LIZZARD REEEEEE
Zuck never Meta tracker that he didn’t like
Is it? It seems to me that pretty much nothing has changed in this space in a decade.
Ten years ago we had cool tech demos but were waiting for a killer app.
Today we have cool tech demos plus Half Life Alyx but are still waiting for a killer app.
I know what the killer app is (I've written paragraphs explaining it on the MR forums in the past). I think Facebook and Apple also know what the killer app is.
I put my money on Apple delivering it. Apple has a history of delivering on hardware. Everyone trusts Apple. Apple's biggest weakness is they generally suck at making web services, but iMessage works pretty okay, so I think they'll be able to overcome that weakness and deliver on this.
Facebook is the opposite of Apple here. They have a track record of nothing but flops in hardware. Although I mostly trust Facebook, whether I as an individual trust them or not doesn't matter much - most people don't trust Facebook. The strongest thing Facebook has going for them is how great they are at delivering software, and specifically web services. I don't know that Facebook can overcome their issues of trust and chronically mediocre hardware. Maybe I should invest a little in Facebook just so I can ride the wave if they do deliver on this...
That’s not what this means. Meta is the parent company name now. Facebook still is a product that “Meta” offers. Facebook is like a subsidiary of Meta now. As is instagram, WhatsApp, etc…
This is very similar to what Google did. The company is called “Alphabet” and Google is a product and subsidiary of Alphabet.
It’s an organizational change, not a product name change. The social network will still be named Facebook.
(1) I guess FB is trying to be like Alphabet.
(2) Meta sounds like a name that Mark thought was a good idea and nobody in the room had the courage to tell him how stupid it sounded.
(2) Meta sounds like a name that Mark thought was a good idea and nobody in the room had the courage to tell him how stupid it sounded.
But all spot on!!