you completely missed the point. saying something 3x'ed since november is hardly anything to applaud about. it crashed and rebounded as so did the entire tech sector. not a sign of strength or outperformance.
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lol are you saying they'll never release a lower cost headset?
yeah i'm sure $3.5k device is for the masses huh?
Lol. You obviously don't really get this stuff. What other tech companies have 3x'ed in the past 9 months? Look at Meta's recent financials. There's a reason the stock has appreciated so much. They made some mistakes. Metaverse was a flop. But much of their business remains very healthy. Zuck won't be losing his job anytime soon.
This product isn't for the masses and won't be for many years. I never said never. One day more people will be able to afford a Vision Pro, whether that is because the price comes down slowly over time and/or more models are introduced. I don't expect that we'll see anything but Vision Pro for the next five years and I don't expect the price to drop much in that time. It's a cutting-edge device. There's no quick avenue for making a "cheap" version. One day it will use fewer cameras. Screens will be less expensive. Etc. But these innovations take multiple generations.
Lol. You presented it as though the whole tech sector took a hit and now everything is up 3x like Meta. That's not true. Would you say that Meta and NVIDIA's performance is the norm and values are just soaring left and right...or do these companies have strong financials that merit their value?
The NVIDIA example is so contrived. Even without any knowledge of the stock market performance of any company —it’s so clear to me that NVIDIA can’t possibly be representative.
Haven't touched it since day 2. Lots of hype and people checking it out and then left. I got bored of the wanna-be comedians, thirst traps/OnlyFans spam, and bots and scams real fast. Not to mention it's a lot of the same stuff you see posted on Instagram. Twitter content wasn't great so I dunno why I was expecting Threads to be something interesting.
Let me try to put it this way: Your freedom, the freedom of everyone, must end where the freedom of your neighbor begins. Nobody dictates anything, it's a social process. There can be nothing absolute in these processes.
Whole tech did absolutely crash. Where did I say all of tech 3x'ed? No where. Not my problem if you misread. Either that or you're trying to put words in my mouth to get out of this argument.
You thought you got me by thinking no other company 3x'ed 🤣. There goes that plan.
Meta fell harder because Meta relies on advertising which took a dump as well as major advertising companies stopped their campaigns through that time. Overselling makes it easy to do a 3x rebound when the advertisers have mostly resumed their campaigns. Not hard to understand this stuff.
Clearly you're trying to move away from the argument that Thread outlasting Twitter for whatever reason so this is an absolute waste of time. Have a good one.
Since this topic seems to have gone off the rails Im just going to kinda get it back on track and drop this here.
It's not short, AKA less than 5 minutes, but worth a watch. It's a pretty spot on legal analysis.
It's not short, AKA less than 5 minutes, but worth a watch. It's a pretty spot on legal analysis.
Really? Nowhere?
Your words: "saying something 3x'ed since november is hardly anything to applaud about. it crashed and rebounded as so did the entire tech sector."
Did the entire tech sector rebound like Meta? Not even close.
I don't think I misread. I grant you, you did not say that every tech stock 3x'ed. But the entire sector has not rebounded, much less rebounded in such a strong way. Give some credit where credit is due, even if you don't like them. No one is firing Zuck over Meta's performance. You're living in fantasy land if you think that'll happen.
That's a strange leap. I thought this tangent was about Meta's stock performance, how you said Zuck and had to answer to his shareholders and board, etc. I haven't changed my opinion or moved away from anything regarding Twitter. Twitter is bleeding out. Advertisers aren't coming back. Mentally healthy people aren't interested in Elon's version of "free speech", which basically amounts to saying whatever the heck I want with no repercussions. It's immature and childish.
Twitter will continue to bleed out and eventually Elon will tire of it. That's my opinion based on what I've seen so far. Threads has a much higher likelihood of sticking, if for no other reason than 1/3 of the world uses Zuck's platforms. He already has the users. He just needs to engage them. When he does, ad revenues will soar even higher. Musk has to attract new users but he's so poisoned the brand at this point that it's going to be very hard to succeed.
Threads pretty useless until it at least gets a following feed and few other QoL features to make it a better baseline, but I think it'll definitely steal a decent amount of casual base from Twitter...along with everything else on your phone lol. I doubt it would have even done that a few years ago but Facebook has kinda been doing damage control too lately which helps in casual eyes. Open sourcing stuff, trying to be (or appear to be) more transparent, Zuckerberg went from a Voldemort impressionist to MMA/more reflectionary individual which is at least respectable growth.
Regardless both have their drawbacks, both censor/steal and other stuff people dislike, and are controlled by a single point of failure. No social media has a hold on me and if anything I'm further away from them all than I've ever been before. A decentralized platform with no one controlling would help but it'd still have it's issues...and even then how you get a network effect for any of them going seems like the most difficult part.
Regardless both have their drawbacks, both censor/steal and other stuff people dislike, and are controlled by a single point of failure. No social media has a hold on me and if anything I'm further away from them all than I've ever been before. A decentralized platform with no one controlling would help but it'd still have it's issues...and even then how you get a network effect for any of them going seems like the most difficult part.
This is what happens when the app is new and millions of users from its sister app sign in with an existing account. That many people “signing up” in that little time makes anything look popular.
Doesn’t mean there’s activity there now that a weeks gone by.
No no no. It can't die yet. It needs to stick around longer, until it accomplishes its mission: Kill Elon Musk Twitter, or make him have a meltdown, or both. 🤣
For real. I just don’t get how the algorithms in this app exactly work. I used it for a week, and my feed was always full of completely random posts that have nothing to do with my interests.
The app is nicer than Twitter in my opinion, but those random posts in the feed are so annoying.
I get what you mean but please keep in mind the world is more than your Congress and your President.
That's what happens when you hire fired Twitter devs in a desperate rush to build a Twitter clone.
