What an insightful article. Taking care of yourself, becoming more confident, expressing interest in martial arts, making censorship a little more transparent on his platform, is seen as becoming more rightwing and more "bro". If only he expressed support for the right candidate for president, he would have been praised as someone who "reshaped masculinity".
To note, I am off all social media, especially owned by Meta.
His pivot to really pushing VR and trying new compute devices is fun. Seems like he’s taking the privacy invasion cash and funding his passion projects.
They’re not necessarily just passion projects. They’re his play to have a new platform in the way that Google and Apple have Android and iOS. He’s been very clear that it’s his goal.
It is cringe as a vision, but I still think it's a more positive investment than coming up with new ways to evade data privacy laws. While the animated "metaverse" is unlikely to succeed, maybe the hardware itself will push the industry in the right direction.
Depends on which way you look at it. From my perspective, it smacks of desperation and a lack of innovation and taste. Wearable displays have their place, namely in aircraft at high speed, but beyond that, their potential uses are few and far between, strictly IMO though.
It's difficult to capture lightning in a bottle a second time, especially following something major like Facebook, which isn't even to say that Facebook is objectively good as a solution for consumers, it was just wildly popular. However, the reason I bring up desperation is the sudden pivot to focusing on local content and a "reels" like exploration feature to try and appeal to gen z, who supposedly aren't into Facebook.
To note, I am off all social media, especially owned by Meta.