Their purchases of IG and WA are two times regulators should have stepped in and said ENOUGH.
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Meta Plans to Take a Nearly 50% Commission on Purchases Made Inside the 'Metaverse' Despite Complaining About Apple's 30% App Store Cut
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I would probably get banned if I would say it.
These two quotes tell me that they are comparing it to art galleries. It is typical that art galleries will charge an artist a 40-60% commission on anything that sells. This is on the sale price, not the net. Sometimes this is even on top of a fee to show in the gallery.
Meta is trying to say the platform is art and not applications and therefore demands a "modest" 47.5 percent.
Have you heard of PS Home?
Yeah, people paid insane amount of money on that virtual world before too. ?
Same here, in that I got off of Facebook about 3 years ago and had to get back in just to be able to get / use the Quest 2. Originally they allowed access via Facebook or a separate Oculus account, but they deprecated that 2nd option and mandated you MUST have a Facebook account to use it. Annoys me...
Once the current crop of 50+ aged folks head to the big roundup, Facebook will be gone...
Deactivated Facebook years ago and haven't missed it at all. I'm better connected with my actual friends than ever before, because we have to actually take initiative to keep up with each other. Facebook isn't real socialization and I expect Meta to be more of the same.
I was never really into Facebook. I only went on there from time to time to scope out some coupons and sales. Another was some of my social groups posted their news and schedules on there. These days, I have family and friends who use it a lot, so I do go on every few months to see what's happening (nice since we long grew apart, across the country), but nice part is that doesn't take more than a few minutes per visit
I've known some who called off the Oculus when Facebook was a requirement. One of my tech groups covered some ways to "have your cake and eat it too"... do the bare minimum to fulfill that requirement while keeping as much of your data on your own as possible (setting up another FB account, and other things to with your IP, etc.)
I’m not saying it’s not an open standard, it’s just an open standard where the vast majority of stuff people are doing on it is for profit or within closed communities/services. Remove all the for profit stuff, remove all the closed communities from today’s internet and what’s left wouldn’t even be recognizable. Meta’s just one more thing built on top of those same open standards for data delivery, display, transfer, networking, etc. You just get some neat goggles to view it with.
Depends on if you want to sell a little or a lot. Actually, even if you want to sell a little, if you’re not making enough to defray the costs of the network connection, the power for the web server (and authentication) not to mention the raw materials cost of the thing you’re selling (if physical, or you time of development/support if digital), then it’s not worth even putting it out there. That’s the very real “tax”.
Even if a person DOESN’T want to sell, no one is going to host their content for free, they’re going to lace it with ads. I think most of rosy image of the “glory days” of the internet were experienced by folks in their college years who had access to it for “free” (tuition). The active and vibrant internet we know today has always been about profit, Meta gets there in a more streamlined fashion such that that it would be child’s play for a metaverse macrumors to exist from day one.
Which is a good thing for them as it appears, whether it’s Twitch or YouTube or FaceBook or Instagram or TikTok, people LOOOOOVE themselves some “not real socialization”.
Sure, but not in all jurisdictions there is need to establish a "traditional monopoly" for the anti-trust to be able to intervene. In the EU a strong enough market position is sufficient although it would not correspond to a traditional monopoly.
Independent from each other both commissions are insane and we need to fight against all of these crazy money grabs.
Hey hey hey. No need to hate on the best social media of all time, MySpace.
Did I miss something? Is there stuff to buy in the Metaverse? What would anyone buy? Clearly only stupid people, but still--what would they buy?
False equivalency. The other three platforms are more producer/consumer entertainment oriented, whereas Facebook is all about pretending to be about nurturing friendships. Most people you speak to really hate Facebook. Hard pass.Which is a good thing for them as it appears, whether it’s Twitch or YouTube or FaceBook or Instagram or TikTok, people LOOOOOVE themselves some “not real socialization”.
Experiences, I guess. It’s really no different from buying tickets to a movie or concert where I don’t end up with anything tangible at the end of the day.
That said, I find this goes back to a lot of what I have previously said about the competition wanting to regulate Apple not for the sake of empowering developers or users, but for their own financial gain.
Companies like Epic Games, Match Group, and Facebook essentially want the ability to run their own app stores on iOS. The goal isn’t just to distribute their own communication service or gaming platform outside of Apple’s control, but also sell third-party services. Essentially, they want what Apple currently has with the App Store but without investing in the related technologies and platform. To them, paying Apple even a cent more than what they absolutely have to is referred to as unfair, monopolistic, and corrupt on Apple’s part.