Meta Cloud
Meta why don’t you start a cloud company. Take a slice of the market in 5-7 years. That way you don’t need addictive apps to sell ads. Clearly Apple did you for good.
Zuck decided to bid on the metaverse. So let’s see how that plays out
Cloud requires compute. Meta data centers are built for inhouse capacity. I heard they use Aws for overflow. So at this point with three major players hard to grab market share. Also Meta is consumer app company not enterprise app. Google is struggling from same issue. Enterprise needs sales driven culture not engineering driven because decision makers at big companies wants to be sucked ie sold. Aws growth came from startups initially and then they moved to enterprise. Msft always had best relationship with enterprise because they are good at sucking ie selling. Google cant find its way because startups still prefer aws over gcp. Gcps bet is on machine learning, they try to get data infra on gcp. It is a good bet because data is sticky, nobody wants to service outage because of data problems. Also gcp pushing k8s to be able to fight another day. This way they gain time and hope more will adopt gcp later and migration cost will be minimal in theory.
They'd just be another competitor in a crowding market that not even Google is able to dominate in. Meanwhile a lot of people are ignoring the web3 space meta are trying to put a stake in. And yeah some of it is cringey but so were aol chatrooms and geocities pages. Yet those led to social media basically existing. I also don't think people understand that the big VR goggles are just the current limitation that makes the metaverse seem so cringey. But what if in 10 years it's simply a light pair of normal sized glasses that you keep on all day for the augmented reality benefits, and seemlessly go in and out of the VR aspect as you'd like? Do you want to be the company hopping on the band wagon when the tech is at that level, or have 10 years of experience developing it during the less refined years?
Who’s gonna trust meta handling sensitive data? Who will their customers be?
Emmmm. Why wouldn’t companies trust Meta with data? No, for real? You think it’d sell customer data? Use it for ads? Leak it? Like seriously?
Only difference between Microsoft and meta is meta actually made products billions wanted to use instead of having to be tricked to use by bundling with excel and word