[browningstreet]

Apple filed 5000 patents. Meta can’t even figure out where the field is now.

[galkk]

I hardly believe that with all headstart that oculus/mega had they don’t have enough patents to ensure mutually assured destruction

[zmmmmm]

It's amazing how seamlessly people have switched from relentlessly mocking Meta's investment in VR to pretending it never happened

[steve_adams_86]

Perhaps Apple entering the space with such significant investment lends some validation to Meta’s efforts.

[smoldesu]

N-no! It can't be. Meta is the company that my favorite company hates!

[Panini_Jones]

There's always the defense that he engineer wasn't aware of the patent.

[Dylan16807]

That just gets you out of paying triple damages.

[pavlov]

This is exactly what Jobs claimed about the iPhone in 2007 and it didn’t stop Android from absorbing every relevant innovation.

[Invictus0]

Jobs was exactly right to say that iPhone was 5 years ahead of the competition. The competition at that time wasn't Android, it was blackberry.

[pavlov]

Android shipped their first public beta in 2007. Its development overlapped the iPhone, and similarly the development of the standalone Quest systems has overlapped the Vision Pro.

There are most likely enough patents on both sides to render these portfolio boasts moot, once again.

[alaskamiller]

No one was using Android phones in 2007. It was BlackBerry and Moto Q days.

[throw9away6]

Android was ahead for a long time 3-4 generations only recently had Apple jumped ahead, basically after Google killed affordable nexus devices that was the turning point