The early Apple engineer said the metaverse is impersonal and sucks talent and resources away from real causes, like climate change.
Any day where Meta and its ilk are shat on is a Good Day.
“Social Mobile” has drained our economy of productive talent and investment over the past 20+ years and to what end? Inventing ploys to induce massified demand in a useless app marketplace trading on attention, data and advertising. Attempts to grow this fake marketplace via one or more metaverses / NFTs - is just more bullshit.
When is this world going to wake up and focus on its actual problems?
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"Social mobile stole all the brains and the talent away from the green problem," Fadell said. "Now the climate crisis is worse than ever, and all those smart brains and all that money is devoted to solving a problem we don't have versus solving a problem we do."
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Fadell isn't the only tech founder or exec to speak out against the metaverse. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said in late April that his company doesn't use the word because it's "ambiguous and hypocritical" and "people love the real world."
And Phil Libin, founder of note-taking app Evernote and current CEO of videoconference firm Mmhmm, told Insider in February that Meta's vision of the metaverse is an "old idea" that's "uncreative."
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