• Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    37
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    23 hours ago

    This is solid evidence for the inability of large corporations to actually innovate. They either copy smaller competitors or release crap that people don’t need and never asked for, like “AI”.

    • TJA!@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      21 hours ago

      As I said in another post:

      The reason we have a Chinese competitor that we cannot directly control is that Meta is buying up every promising US platform and shutting it down. Or just trying to copy it so that the competitor does not get enough users

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      16 hours ago

      I mean you could make the argument that Meta innovates, just not in any meaningful way.

      They’ve innovated in VR, for sure, no question. But it’s clearly not turning out to be what they hoped in the sort of weird AR business meeting sense (thank the lord).

      They’ve also innovated in data-mining, which I’d personally consider a negative.

      • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        16 hours ago

        Well, they bought Occulus, so I don’t credit the VR innovations to Meta, they just added the data collecting “innovation” on top of it.

        • Ulrich@feddit.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          15 hours ago

          It’s not like they haven’t continued to innovate since they acquired the brand…

          • Euphoma@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            6 hours ago

            Nah, most of the good meta vr tech was from john carmack. Ever since he left the company to do ai stuff, the meta software has gotten worse and worse. There was an issue a month ago where quest headsets were being literally bricked (bootloader errors) from an update and meta had to go and replace all the headsets affected by the bug.

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      23 hours ago

      and never asked for, like “AI”.

      I think, unfortunately, quite a lot of people have poor taste and don’t mind obvious AI slop, even enjoy it.