do you guys really think zuck is that big of an idiot
he's not gonna try to monetize a piece of hardware because as he's demonstrated, he's very very good at making money and knows that he can make much more by offering the hardware without any strings attached and then using his platform to become a market for software that interfaces with it
i haven't looked at the official details much but if it's anything like the whatsapp acquisition, he likely paid that $2 billion mostly in stock options to the owners since (again, i'm just going on conjecture here) it would be more expensive tax-wise to give them 2 billion actual dollars
the evidence going off of the instagram acquisition so far would tell us that there's no reason to believe facebook will even change the rift in any way, this just ensures its success as opposed to earlier when there was a very real risk of the company running out of capital and being unable to fill the vast demand for their product
if this actually fails it's just going to be because everyone threw a fit when capitalism functioned properly for once and refused to buy a product (ironically) because it was backed by such a large investor
it's still bad that facebook is becoming so big imo but this is good for oculus as far as i can tell
