[arrc]

Guys Facebook is no Microsoft or Google who only buy to soft kill the competitor.

FB is different just look at their past acquisitions like Instagram and others, they all survived and are still in active development and rolling out new features.

If it were MS/Google acquiring Oculus, negative reactions would have been justified.

[vezzy-fnord]

All of FB's past acquisitions before Oculus (just Instagram and WhatsApp) were social media platforms, precisely what FB specialized in and knows how to work with. They don't need to do any radical shift with them, they already serve as private data and analytics incubators.

Oculus is a completely unrelated avenue for them, and one can only wonder what their intentions are. Zuckerberg already made a PR statement that the company intends on turning Oculus into a social platform of some sort, so this does raise some eyebrows.

As much as I have ethical quandaries with Google, I'd be more content if they had acquired Oculus.

[threeseed]

But what makes Facebook different to what Google was a few years ago ?

Google has been a long time advertising player that only recently got into hardware.

[logicallee]

>But what makes Facebook different to what Google was a few years ago ?

Mark Zuckerberg.