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What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?” (lemmy.world)

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Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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[+] realharo@lemm.ee -7 points 1 year ago

Oculus. No way they would have otherwise had the money to make cheap standalone VR headsets like the Quest.

[-] elshandra@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

No way would they have forced you to sign up to/in to meta either though.

[-] realharo@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago

Everything that has a store requires an account.

Steam - you need Steam account (also applies to Valve Index then)
iPhone - you need Apple account
Android phones - you need Google account
Oculus before - you needed an Oculus account

The short time during which they required a Facebook account (i.e. an account linked to an unrelated service) was a fuck-up, but they have since reversed that decision. Now it's just a separate standalone VR-related account.

If anything, that is still better than the current Google/Apple situation with their accounts, which link together a bunch of unrelated services (photos, email, payments, storage sync, etc.) in an inseparable way.

[-] averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

I still refuse anh thing that requires a fb account I will pay more for a vr headset to not fucking deal with that

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