It's pretty incredible to think they somehow spent fifty BILLION dollars on this as of a year or two ago and not only can I not fathom where that money went, but we barely even talk about it because it's overshadowed by even stupider wastes entirely by guys named Sam.
way back we had a restaurant in town that made zero sense- rigid dress code in a college town, huge two story space that took up half a block, always empty, was open for years, everyone called it 'the mob front'
'the metaverse' has gotta be something like that, the money went *some*where
Here in the midwest that's just Edible Arrangements. There's one located in every other strip mall, you always see them, but when do you EVER see anyone receive an arrangement? When have you ever sent one? Never.
I'd just say those things are very popular with certain types of industries, to grease the wheels with other businesses, as a sort of, legal, soft bribe.
haha, came here to say this
it's the kind of shit that in big cities get sent around from vendors trying to court business, and to admins on "admin day" (we would rather have a raise, but sure, here's some cheap fruit on sticks I guess)
There is a flavored popcorn place nearby that is usually empty - they said that the storefront is really just a tasting room, and all of their business is corporate orders. Sometimes that key question is “Would a boss give this to employees in place of a bonus?”
There was a frozen yogurt place near me that never had any customers, except for one guy who was always there on his laptop. They eventually closed though.
We used to get them a lot as gifts when I worked in smaller offices. My friend also sent me one as a get-well present when I had a concussion! I’ve sent a couple. 😂
My mom was a dental hygienist and there was literally always an edible arrangement in the break room.
There is your answer! People send them to their dentists.
One day some random kid walks in wanting some pasta and 7 guys, 3 of which are named joey, just look at him in strained silence, before making him the best damn pasta he'll ever eat.
Most of the billions Microsoft "invested" into OpenAI has been in Azure cloud computing credits, i.e. they're paying themselves. The Metaverse is probably similar. Zuckerberg gotten a golden opportunity to make a bunch of his friends millionaires while becoming a even bigger billionaire.
Disagree. Apple killed a 1/3 of Zucks profits, by turning off location data on iPhones. Zucks wanted a platform owned by Meta. This VR goggle disaster is that platform. Problem is, it has no killer app, is expensive, crap resolution and its cost NOT financed by telecom companies.
yeah the 'innovation' is just always new means of obfuscated wealth transfer. like this, except this is broad daylight fraud: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
Zuckerberg gets 28% of Facebook dividends, but has majority voting rights. If he wants to spend cash on a hobby, he gets more bang for the back if Facebook funds it at a loss. Then the other shareholders help pay for it, and the taxman.
In short, zuck read Ready Player One and did a cosplay.
I worked in a little office/retail building and there was a hair salon that stayed open for years and I never saw people in it, just the stylist. Now and then, perhaps, but I worked in that hall with her and it was RARE.
We always thought it was a money-laundering front for the triad.
We have a daycare by us. People never drive through picking up and dropping off toddlers. There are other locations that have children, but the one by us was an empty new construction for YEARS before the daycare w/o kids filled the spot.
Buying out gamedev studios, paying for developer time for it specifically, and (most notably) selling consoles at a massive loss hoping to make it up in appstore fees.
Kind of sad they aren't subsidizing the quest 3 heavily. I like using the older one I bought (used) as a piracy machine.
shit, you beat me to this reply. that's the funnest fact about all of this. people just see that image and think it's called "the metaverse", but no, that was supposed to describe a genre of thing
TIL.... I really thought the Metaverse was just a name for Facebook's proprietary universe. Just the second Life clone plus, I dunno, Facebook PowerPoint for all the business people who aren't having meetings there.
