List of Top 10 downloaded apps in Q1 shows our supercharged smartphones are basically Facebook machines
Ever felt like there's too much Facebook in your apps?
Is that a problem? Well, smartphones are much more capable than this, and all these ambitious developers pushing increasingly clever algorithms know it. Even if their innovative apps don't get to dethrone Facebook, or ever make it to the Top 10, they can still get tens of millions of installs if they work as promised and aren't boring or redundant. The incredibly, almost disappointingly mundane ways in which we use these elegant devices isn't stifling technological progress. So here's a real problem.
For all the flack Facebook gets, its products are disproportionally omnipresent. And for a company that has no clue how to make a phone, Facebook sure knows how to take over yours. Mark Zuckerberg successfully conquered reality before it even came down to augmented or virtual reality, and he's completely open about his intentions to dominate these – and other emerging mediums – as soon as possible.
A monopoly is only good if you are the monopolist.
Your reluctance to seek potentially better alternatives to Facebook's apps, because everyone else is using them and they are "good enough" is putting way too much power in this person's hands, way too easily. If it's 2023 and you are complaining that your smart oven or whatever came pre-loaded with an obnoxious Facebook for Kitchen app you cannot remove; struggle to find quality VR content outside Facebook or any of the services it bought; you can't play a game you like without logging onto FB first; you can't use the darn oven without logging onto FB first, and otherwise feel Zuck'd out on life – hey, guess what, you have only yourself to blame.ALSO READ
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