<story><title>Meta</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>As much as I am &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a FB fan, I give Zucc credit for dedicating an entire keynote to his vision of the future. What are all the other tech companies&amp;#x27; visions for the future? Who knows! They never talk about the future. Apple almost never talks about anything more than a month away. Their vision of the future? Looks like it&amp;#x27;s probably: a brand new phone, similar to and released precisely one year after the previous one... forever and ever. What&amp;#x27;s Amazon&amp;#x27;s vision of the future? Continue N% YoY growth for online shopping and cloud...forever. Google&amp;#x27;s? Ads on moar surfaces...forever?&lt;p&gt;Zucc said this is our future vision for end users, here&amp;#x27;s what and why. Whether or not you like the idea or company, at least he stuck his neck out and articulated it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangoor</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple almost never talks about anything more than a month away. Their vision of the future? Looks like it&amp;#x27;s probably: a brand new phone, similar to and released precisely one year after the previous one... forever and ever.&lt;p&gt;This is just because Apple never &lt;i&gt;talks&lt;/i&gt; about future things, but they certainly have a picture internally. Plenty of reporting supports the existence of AI&amp;#x2F;VR glasses of some sort and a car of some sort being designed within Apple.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meta</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>As much as I am &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a FB fan, I give Zucc credit for dedicating an entire keynote to his vision of the future. What are all the other tech companies&amp;#x27; visions for the future? Who knows! They never talk about the future. Apple almost never talks about anything more than a month away. Their vision of the future? Looks like it&amp;#x27;s probably: a brand new phone, similar to and released precisely one year after the previous one... forever and ever. What&amp;#x27;s Amazon&amp;#x27;s vision of the future? Continue N% YoY growth for online shopping and cloud...forever. Google&amp;#x27;s? Ads on moar surfaces...forever?&lt;p&gt;Zucc said this is our future vision for end users, here&amp;#x27;s what and why. Whether or not you like the idea or company, at least he stuck his neck out and articulated it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;What are all the other tech companies&amp;#x27; visions for the future?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t say that I care at all about what trillion dollar companies&amp;#x27; visions of the future are.</text></comment>