[tech_tuna]

I'm not looking to praise Zuck but he did at least try something new. That's how companies stay alive and vital and relevant. Innovation. He gambled big on VR and it didn't pay off. At least not yet. I don't think it will pay off but I have to respect that he went big on a new direction for the company.

I still think Facebook is evil and I feel like they should have tried to buy Tik Tok although I don't know how feasible that ever was.

>Meta really needs to be in the cloud business.

That's an interesting idea.

[optymizer]

TikTok is a Chinese company bringing in mountains of data on US citizens, including the ability to influence what people in the US see on a daily basis. The Chinese government would never sell that kind of leverage to anyone, let alone to Facebook, which is banned in China.

[system2]

It is baffling why the U.S. government didn't ban TikTok. I'd rather zucc steal people's info than chinese ppl.

[noahtallen]

TikTok is incredibly popular in the US and there isn’t really a huge similar precedent where the US takes a page from China’s playbook and blocks a social media network completely. If banning TikTok was reasonable, and I’m not sure it is, I think it makes a lot of sense to be cautious about setting bad precedence.

[triyambakam]

Because some and certain high ranking US officials are working with China

[LastTrain]

Who?

[triyambakam]

I don't know who, maybe Trump? Biden? But it wouldn't be allowed if some weren't allowing it.

[system2]

How can you speculate if you don't know? This is the problem of american politics. People just make up stuff.

[skrbjc]

It’s because once trump said it, everyone who hates him had to take the opposite position, even though he was right.

[slaw]

Google didn't innovate in the last 10 years and it's very alive and vital. Maybe doing good one thing is enough. Like Google doing ads.

[mayankkaizen]

Google's portfolio is a bit more diversified than FB. Besides, Google services have some value, they offer some essential services. FB not so much.

Besides, Google is trying 50 different things but it didn't go full throttle on any idea like FB did for Metaverse. Huge difference.

[eddsh1994]

Aren’t people constantly complaining about Googles failing products and slowly worsening core products like search?

[slaw]

That is exactly lack of innovation. 15th version of Hangouts and worse search every year.

[randomsearch]

> That's an interesting idea.

That's a crazy idea, if original. What do Facebook know about building and selling general cloud services?