Very strange how many people are here to dunk on Zuck. He's opening up an OS. THAT'S AWESOME! We should celebrate that in principle, no matter how we feel about him or VR in general.
a meta account is an account that you can optionally link to their social medias, but it isn’t required
meta accounts are basically just oculus accounts
So, needing an account for these is more comparable to needing an account to use Steam
It's still unclear to me why an account is needed. I mean, I get the profit and control motive, I just don't understand the technical reasons.
I doubt there is any actual technical reason, just profit/control. I mean, it’s Meta, would you really put it past them?
Profit and control fit the data points, but I suppose I could "put it past them" if a better model explained everything.
My device is not signed into any Apple services right now or any Apple IDs. Anything my company needs to deploy gets pushed by MDM or via enterprise-signed applications.
It hasn't been called Oculus for ages and it doesn't require a Facebook login. Meta accounts are stand alone and completely different, you can create as many as you want without giving your identity, just an email address, you don't need to link it to anything.
All they are doing is allowing some companies to pay them billions of dollars to put meta onto their own headsets. Similar to how Valve allowed a few companies to put SteamOS onto their own hardware to create 'Steam Machines'.
I cant think of a single time in history when this tactic has worked. and made a product or brand more successful. Please correct me if I am wrong.
And it's still based on Android.
The reason will be the same as for Android by Google: Control the market.