What is Facebook's name change really about?

FB recognizes that their largest threat has come from losing the hardware battle (phone) that became the default access point to their business.

Think of it as a critical bridge or port in a physical war...
With control of the bridge (phone) Apple has been able to squeeze FB's revenue under the banner of "privacy restrictions".

Because FB needs apple (and Google) to access its users they are vulnerable to further constraints.

This dependency is a massive risk.
It also highlights why FB was so resistant to mobile applications in the first place.

Remember how hard they tried to make the mobile web a thing?

forbes.com/sites/robertho…
A bet on the metaverse is an attempt to regain control of that bridge in the future.

With Oculus already in-house, FB has an opportunity to take back the primary hardware that people will use to access the future internet (web3).
You can see this in their other recent hardware rollouts:

engadget.com/facebook-ray-b…
FB has no interest in allowing a major competitor to dictate their access to users and their data in the future.

So while the war rages on the software front keep an eye on the bridges.

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I want to have a conversation...

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continuing...
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Communicating those ideas clearly and consistently enough such that they are understood by everyone is orders of magnitude more difficult.

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