Comment by bombcar
5 days ago
They could release a subsidized Facebook phone which is just some android pos with Facebook rammed into it for way less than the 70 billion or whatever they burned on VR.
5 days ago
They could release a subsidized Facebook phone which is just some android pos with Facebook rammed into it for way less than the 70 billion or whatever they burned on VR.
They actually did that before, if i recall correctly?
They've done something like it in poorer countries, I believe, but it's more about subsidizing the connection.
There's certainly marketshare they could work with in USA and Europe. $70 billion is 70 million phones.
No, they've done this in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First. https://www.cnet.com/pictures/a-look-at-the-htc-first-aka-th...
Yes, Internet.org in 2015, (later rebranded as Free Basics) according to an AI