[N1H1L]

I was just thinking of this. And came to the conclusion how fragile Facebook really is compared to the rest of FAANMG. Google has search/YouTube/Android. Apple has a thriving iOS and hardware business. Amazon has AWS. Microsoft has Azure abd Office. All of Facebook's business is based on data mining. If Whatsapp starts charging money Signal will laugh all the way to the bank.

I won't be surprised if Facebook starts shopping for a phone manufacturer and spins their own Facebook mobile distro in the future.

[laurent92]

Facebook Mobile distro would be something, but it’s an expected move. They’d have to be more creative and attack sideways.

Facebook could enter the actor/actress recruitment market, own contracts and manage their Instagram along all their artists’ public reputation and persona. It’s not hardware but at least it’s real-world assets that reinforce their network’s desirability.

Facebook could buy Homebrew or IntelliJ and become a tool that every developer for most languages need to use, and it would give it more leverage in negotiating with AWS/Azure (Oh, the SDK has bugs with GCP? too bad!)

Those are just examples that have not been implemented because they are half-ideas, but it’s the idea of attacking really sideways.