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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns

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Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Meta reportedly told its VR/AR teams to cut spending by a fifth, but the team is still expected to pump out Quest Headsets and AR glasses.
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    According to the report, the company’s chief financial officer, Susan Li, told staff the division has lost $55 billion since 2019.

    $55 billion in losses over ~5 years? That’s a substantial amount.

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      Holy shit, give me just one billion per year and I’ll build you a sexier failure.

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          People underestimate how much a fucking Million is! It’s like a lifetime salary (3k/m for 27.8 years).

          We should call billions thousand millions.

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      Wow, that’s like half the total value of Nike!!!
      https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NKE/

      Or about the same as Ford:
      https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/F/

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      Not a drop in the bucket of their revenues, though. This is really about someone feeling angst that they can’t get an extra quarter percent increase in profits for the quarter so that the dividends go up just so slightly.

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