[howmayiannoyyou]

Manus was pretty damn good at delivering impressive results well before other providers. I stopped using it because I was concerned about data privacy and and whatever extent one particular foreign country might (or might not) have hooks into Manus. Now that Meta has purchased them I know I'm safe ((sarcasm)).

I have many questions:

- Will Meta fuck this up as they seem (in my opinion) to do with most of the acquisitions? Oculus? Drop.io?

- Did they grossly overpay?

- Will innovation slow to a crawl (eg. Instagram, Whatsapp)?

- Will Manus' top talent bail?

- How is it conceivable Meta couldn't build this themselves. It can't possibly have been Manus' user base they were after, can it?

- How much trouble am I in for telling my wife to sell her Meta stock two weeks ago?

The acquisition is confusing to me.

[tacker2000]

What was the advantage of manus vs other providers?

[alex1138]

> Will Meta fuck this up as they seem (in my opinion) to do with most of the acquisitions?

Do you even have to ask?

Yes