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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Has he picked a single winner since he stole the idea for facebook?

[–] Maldaya@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Probably only when he bought out Instagram and Whatsapp, that's all I can think of

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Those were already popular before he bought them, and then he made them worse.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago

...but no less popular

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like Oculus improved under them, but yeah - an exception proves the rule.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if "improved" is as accurate as "accelerated" in that case. Oculus was already doing cool stuff they just needed the resources to really get going, and now Meta is all up in it so the service kinda blows.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, please tell me that he didn't take oculus & vr and drove it into the ground. Where is a nice cheap vr set (not locked in with some turd)?

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He bought 100 lottery tickets through acquisition (probably more) and 2 of them hit.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

What's the second one 😅

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's working hard on destroying that one, don't worry. The quest experience has only gotten worse with every update.

Two other things I don't use.

[–] the_wonderfool@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately for humanity, it seems that the pervert glasses are quite popular

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought he actually stole the source code, not just the idea.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How on earth can you steal the working thing but not the idea? I mean if it was your idea.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm suggesting that he didn't run back to his dorm room and recreate what he saw someone else do all quick like and rather stole their completed or nearly completed code.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Oh yeah I misread that a bit. 👍🏼