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Facebook Working on Smart Watch to Compete With Apple Watch

All I ever wanted: Facebook on my wrist at all times.

Facebook, Inc. is the Standard Oil of the 21st century and the five “services” they offer, that are truly just bought-up corporations (save for its namesake and Messenger), need to be broken up. I’ve always heard representatives talk about “breaking up Big Tech” and known how unfeasible that is—but Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and possibly even Messenger need to be their own companies, separate from Facebook. They truly have a monopoly on social media (save for Twitter, which is just a black hole at this point) and it needs to be wholly and entirely broken apart.
 
The irony - they are berating Apple for privacy and now push for a new device to obtain the data they may lose access to for advertising and $$$$ lol - so obvious.
 
Can you imagine entrusting Facebook with your health data? NOT in a million years.
Trust is a ship that has sailed where Facebook is concerned. They are now grasping for straws to maintain relevancy.
 
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This is DOA. About as wanted as a COVID anal probe or wait... the FB phone 😂 remember that. FB is already MySpace and I suspect what they really need is some good SEC & FCC investigations for wrongdoings.
 
Suckfest 9001 said:
People laughing about this don’t understand that this is ultimately a good thing for competition and thus a good thing for us. Super glad you lot aren’t in charge of any major decisions :)
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I agree that competition is great. Hard pass on any piece of hardware made my Facebook though as it will surely have microphones to record every conversation. The fact that they plan to sell it at cost tells me that the product is you.
 
iZac said:
...It will sell your heartbeat to a bunch of pharmaceutical companies to try and sell you pills.
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Well, not like that, but they can gauge interest based on the biometric data. Eg. They can see if there's a heart rate increase whenever you are on a certain Facebook ad. With that, they can gauge your real interest.

And they can do this wherever you go. Paired With location data, the sky is the limit. Quite scary once you think about it as this is not a passive website or cookie waiting for you to do something when you're on the screen, it actively tracks you 24/7 wherever you are and whatever you do as it's a wearable.
 
I mean the Apple Watch also records all kinds of data about you including lots of physical health data. How do you know apple isn’t using it maliciously? Is the code open source? Is it because apple, a trillion dollar corporation said so?

interesting how some nice looking marketing inspires so many people to give up their data just because some pretty slideshows had the word privacy on them. What about the time they got caught sending our Siri recordings to a third party? Or the time they promised iCloud backup encryption but rolled back on that because ???????

Facebook’s gonna be trash as usual but you people are funny as hell thinking there’s that big a difference between all these tech giants. Some just hide it better than others but if you truly think uncle Apple does no wrong then boy do they have you bent
 
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Suckfest 9001 said:
I mean the Apple Watch also records all kinds of data about you including lots of physical health data. How do you know apple isn’t using it maliciously? Is the code open source? Is it because apple, a trillion dollar corporation said so?

interesting how some nice looking marketing inspires so many people to give up their data just because some pretty slideshows had the word privacy on them. What about the time they got caught sending our Siri recordings to a third party? Or the time they promised iCloud backup encryption but rolled back on that because ???????

Facebook’s gonna be trash as usual but you people are funny as hell thinking there’s that big a difference between all these tech giants. Some just hide it better than others but if you truly think uncle Apple does no wrong then boy do they have you bent
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In this particular battle, the posts of the majority have sided with Apple. There are plenty of threads where this is not the case.

As for Apple’s commitment to privacy and security, no one is taking them strictly at their word. There are plenty of third party reviews that back Apple’s claims.
 
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But seriously? Do they actually expect to make money from this? I don’t imagine they make any profit on the Oculus headsets, at least not enough to make back what they spent on Oculus. And I’m sure they haven’t recouped their development costs on the video chat devices, even with the whole pandemic. You know, the sooner the current tech bubble pops, the sooner we won’t have to listen to yet another ecommerce, social media, or software firm try peddling yet more ill-conceived physical hardware that will never be a money maker. Bring on the bubble burst, we’ve got too many malinvestments to clear out!
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Facebook makes money from data.

Oculus, the FB tablet, everything else they have ever done, and everything that the will ever do, are just tools to gather more and better data.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they started to give this stuff away for free one day.
 
jeremiah256 said:
In this particular battle, the posts of the majority have sided with Apple. There are plenty of threads where this is not the case.

As for Apple’s commitment to privacy and security, no one is taking them strictly at their word. There are plenty of third party reviews that back Apple’s claims.
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No there aren’t because they don’t have access to the source code. Go ahead and link one, they will have at best used a network sniffer
 
jeremiah256 said:
I'm confused. You said:


My point is that Facebook is not even close to being one of the world's leading AI providers and I'd put money on betting that they never will be. Again, they are in the top when it comes to personal information data.

And you're inflating Facebook's influence with regards to commerce especially vs companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. Those companies represent the model the majority have chosen because there is at least a modicum of privacy.

If a consumer interacts with a product or service on Facebook, you risk Facebook blabbing to everyone that you liked something you may not want everyone to know you like, because their business model relies too much on manipulating their product, which is the users as tranches, for the purpose of selling access to their customers, advertisers.

Amazon, on the other hand, is not notifying grandma I just bought (for example) Satanic Temple nipple rings. Amazon absolutely wants to influence me as an individual, that that is now to purchase (for example) a Satanic chastity belt.

As for digital, personalized assistants, again, Facebook has no significant presence and with no viable ubiquitous physical products, home or mobile, there is no indication that will change. They know this, hence the watch initiative, but they have a serious negative reputation to overcome in addition to having to go face to face against competitors like Google, Amazon, and Apple. Would Facebook like to pivot to the company you think they'll be in 10 years? Yes. Will they be able to? So far, their still very profitable original business model has hampered them from attracting customers to the products and services they'd need for this to happen.

Due to trust issues, no one wants a Facebook phone, tablet, or their latest failure, their money.
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The more I talk about the future, the more you talk about the present. I'm not interested in what everybody is doing right now because it's irrelevant. Things change fast and in surprising directions. If there was an obvious direct line from the present to the future then it wouldn't much of a prediction, would it?

Since I can't prove anything, I'm letting this go. Come back in 10 years if you want to see how right or wrong I was.
 
For everything Facebook knows about us they really seem unable to understand that people using their services a lot does not equate to people liking or trusting them.

No one asked for this.Prior to this rumor I think the only person who’s ever said “I wish Facebook made a smart watch” was Zuck.
 
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