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Zuck’s gravity-defying metaverse money-pit

Tomorrow (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

Think of everything that makes you miserable as being caught between two opposing, irresistible, irrefutable truths:

"Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops" (Stein's Law)

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" (Keynes)

Both of these are true, even though they seemingly contradict one another, and no one embodies that contradiction more perfectly than Mark Zuckerberg.

Take the metaverse.

Zuck's "pivot" to a virtual world he ripped off from a quarter-century old cyberpunk novel (reminder: cyberpunk is a warning, not a suggestion) was born of desperation.

Zuck fancies himself an avatar of the Emperor Augustus (that's why he has that haircut) (no, really). The emperors of antiquity are infamous for getting all weepy when they run out of lands to conquer.

But the lachrymosity of emperors has little causal relationship to the anxieties of tech monopolists! Alexander weeps because he just loves a good conquest and when he finishes conquering the world, he's terminally bored. That's not Zuck's problem at all. When Zuck attains monopoly status, his company develops an autoimmune disorder, as his vicious princelings run out of enemies to destroy and begin to knife one another.

Any monopoly faces these destructive microincentives, but tech is exceptional here because tech has the realtime flexibility and speed that brick-and-mortar businesses can never match:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

Sociopaths with tech monopolies are worse for the same reason that road-rage would be worse in a flying car: adding new capacity to indiscriminate self-destructive urges turns ordinary car crashes into low-level airburst warfare:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

The flexibility of digital gives tech platforms so much latitude to break things in tiny increments. A tech platform is like a Jenga tower composed of infinitely divisible blocks. The Jenga players are the product managers and executives who have run out of the ability to grow by attracting new business thanks to their monopoly dominance. Now they compete with one another to increase the yield from their respective divisions by visiting pain upon the business customers and end users their platform connects. By tiny increments, they increase the product's cost, lower its reliability, and strip it of its utility and then charge rent to restore its functionality:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/24/cursed-bigness/#incentives-matter

This is the terminal stage of enshittification, the unstoppable autocannibalism of platforms as they seek to harvest all the value created by business customers and end users, leaving the absolute minimum of residual value needed to keep both stuck to the platform. This is a brittle equilibrium, because the difference between "I hate this service but I just can't stop using it," and "Get me the fuck out of here" is razor-thin.

All it takes is one tiny push – a whistleblower, a livestreamed mass-shooting, a Cambridge Analytica – and people bolt for the doors. This triggers the final stage: the "pivot," which is a tech euphemism for "panic."

For Zuck, the pivot got real after a disappointing earnings call triggered a mass sell-off of Facebook stock, history's worst one-day value incineration, which lopped a quarter of a trillion dollars off the company's market cap:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-19/dramatic-stock-moves-of-2022-led-by-meta-dive-nordic-flash-crash

This was when the metaverse became the company's top priority.

Now, in my theory of enshittification, the step that follows the pivot is death: "Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Many people have asked me about the conspicuous non-death of Facebook! That's where I have to fall back on Stein's Law: "Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops." Facebook can't continue to annihilate value, alienate its workers, harm the public, hemorrhage money in support of a mediocrity's cherished folly forever. Can it?

Admittedly, it sure seems like it can. Facebook's metaverse pivot has thus far cost the company $46,500,000,000. That is: $46.5 billion. That's even more money than Uber torched, seeking to maintain the illusion that they will be able to create monopolies on both transport and the labor market for driving and recoup the billions the Saudi royal family let them use for the con:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/11/bezzlers-gonna-bezzle/#gryft

Don't worry: the Saudi royals are fine! They cashed out at the IPO, collecting a tidy profit at the expense of retail investors who assumed that a pile of shit as big as Uber must have a pony under it, somewhere:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/#millennial-lifestyle-subsidy

Uber has doubled the cost of rides and halved drivers' wages, using illegal gimmicks like "algorithmic wage discrimination" to squeeze a little more juice out of the nearly exhausted husks of its workforce:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

But Stein's Law hasn't been repealed. Drivers can't drive for sub-subsistence wages. Do that long enough and they'll literally starve: that's what "subsistence" means. We lost a decade of transit investment thanks to the Uber con, at the same time as traditional taxi drivers were forced out of the industry. Uber can't be profitable and still pay a living wage, and the fantasy of self-driving cars as a means of zeroing out the wage-bill altogether remains stubbornly, lethally unworkable:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

Which means we're at the point where you can get off a commuter train at a main station and find yourself stranded: no taxis at the taxi-queue, no busses due for an hour, and no Uber cars available unless you're willing to pay $95 for a ten-minute ride in a luxury SUV (why yes, this did happen to me recently, thanks for asking).

As more and more of us are exposed to these micro-crises, the political will to do something will increase. This can't go on forever. "Don't use commuter rail" isn't a viable option. "Walk three miles each way to the commuter rail station" isn't viable either. Neither is "Pay $95 for an Uber to get to the station." Something's gotta give…eventually.

"Eventually" is the key word here. Remember the corollary of Stein's Law: Keynes's maxim that "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." Sure, anything that can't go on forever eventually stops, but that is no guarantee of a soft landing. You can't smoke two packs a day forever – but in the absence of smoking cessation, the eventual terminus of that habit is stage-four lung cancer. Keep hammering butts into your face and your last smoke will come out a crematorium chimney.

Zuckerberg hasn't merely blown a whole-ass Twitter on the metaverse with nothing to show for it – he's gotten richer while doing it! In the past year, his net worth increased by 130%, to $59 billion, thanks to an increase in Facebook's share-price, driven by investors who stubbornly remain irrational, keeping the Boy Emperor solvent long past any reasonable assessment of his performance.

What are these investors betting on? One possibility is that the rise and rise of Facebook's share-price represents a bet on technofeudalism. Since the Communist Manifesto, Marxists have been predicting the end of capitalism. That end seems to have come, but what followed capitalism wasn't socialism, it was the return of feudalism, an economic system where elites derive their wealth from rents, not profits:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/#cloud-capital

Profit is the income you get from investing in capital – machinery, systems, plant – and then harvesting the surplus value created by workers who mobilize this capital. Capitalism produces massive returns for its winners – in the Manifesto's first chapter, Marx and Engels just geek out about how productive and dynamic this system is.

But capitalism is also a Red Queen's Race, where the winners have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place. Capitalism drives competition, as other would-be winners pile into the sector, replicating the systems that the current winners are using and then improving on them. This is why the prophets of capitalist end-times like the FBI informant Peter Thiel say that "competition is for losers."

Capitalism's "profits" stand in contrast to the feudalist's "rents." Rents are income you get from owning something that other people need to produce things. The capitalist owns the coffee-shop, but the feudalist owns the building. When a rival capitalist opens a superior coffee-shop and drives the old shop out of business, the capitalist loses, but the rentier wins. Now they can rent out an empty storefront in the neighborhood everyone's coming to because of that hot new cafe.

Feudal and manorial lords also made their fortunes by extracting surplus value from workers, but these rentiers don't care about owning the means of production. The peasant in the field pays for their own agricultural equipment and livestock – control over the means of production is necessary for worker liberation, but it's not sufficient. The worker's co-op that owns its factory can still find the value it produces bled off by the landlord who owns the land the factory sits on.

The jury's still out on whether American workers really see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires," but America's capitalists have a palpable, undeniable loathing for capitalism. The dream of an American "entrepreneur" is *PassiveIncome: money you get from owning something capitalists and/or workers use to create value. Digital technology creates exciting new possibilities for rent-extraction: a taxi-operator had to buy and maintain a car that someone else drove. Uber can offload this hassle onto its drivers and rent out access to the chokepoint it created between drivers and riders, charging all the traffic can bear. This is feudalism in the cloud – or as Yannis Varoufakis calls it, cloudalism.

In Varoufakis's Technofeudalism, he describes Amazon as a feudal venture. From a distance, Amazon seems like a bustling marketplace of manic capitalism, with sellers avidly competing to offer more variety and lower costs in a million independently operated storefronts. But closer inspection reveals that Amazon is a planned economy, not a market.

Every one of those storefronts pays rent to the same landlord – Amazon – which determines which goods can be offered for sale. Amazon sets pricing for those goods, and extracts 45-51% of every dollar those sellers make. Amazon even controls which goods are shelved at eye-height when you enter the store, and which ones are banished to a dusty storeroom in a distant sub-basement you'll never find:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

Zuck's metaverse is pure-play technofeudalism, Amazon taken to the logical extreme. It's easy to get distracted by the part of Zuck's vision that will convert us all into legless, sexless, heavily surveilled low-resolution cartoon characters. But the real action isn't this digitization of our fleshy wants and needs. Zuck didn't spend $46.5B to torment us.

The cruelty isn't the point of the metaverse.

The point of the metaverse is to rent us out to capitalists.

Zuck doesn't know why we would use the metaverse, but he believes that if he can convince capitalists that we all want to live there, that they'll invest the capital to figure out how to serve us there, and then he can extract rent from those capitalists and start earning "passive income." It's an Uber for Cyberpunk Dystopias play.

Zuck's done this before. Remember the "pivot to video?" Zuckerberg wanted to compete with Youtube, but he didn't want to invest in paying for video production. Videos are really expensive to produce and the median video gets zero views. So Zuck used his captive audience to trick publishers into financing his move into video. He fraudulently told publishers that videos were blowing up on Facebook, outperforming boring old text by vast margins.

Publishers borrowed billions and raised billions more in the capital markets, financing the total conversion of newsrooms from text to video and precipitating a mass extinction event for print journalists. Zuck kept the con alive by giving away (fewer) billions to some of those publishers, falsely claiming that their videos were generating fortunes in advertising revenue. These lucky, credulous publishers became judas goats for their industry, luring others into the con, the same way that the "lucky" guy a carny lets win a giant teddy-bear at the start of the day lures others into putting down $5 to see if they can sink three balls in a rigged peach-basket.

But when we stubbornly refused to watch videos on Facebook, Zuck stopped spreading around these convincer payouts, and precipitated a second mass-extinction event in news media, as the new generation of video journalists joined their predecessors in Facebook-driven unemployment. Given this history, it's surreal to see publishers continue to insist that Facebook is stealing their content, when it is so clearly stealing their money:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

Metaverse is the new Pivot to Video. Zuckerberg is building a new world, which he will own, and he wants rent it to capitalists, who will compete with one another in just the way that Amazon's sellers compete. No matter who wins that competition, Zuckerberg will win. The prize for winning will be a rent increase, as Zuckerberg leverages the fact that your "successful" business relies on Facebook's metaverse to drain off all the value your workers have produced:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/18/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video/

This can't last forever, but how long until Zuck's reality distortion field runs out of battery? That's the $46.5B question.

The market can certainly remain irrational for a hell of a long time. But the market isn't the only force that regulates corporate outcomes. Regulators also regulate. Europe's GDPR is now seven years old, and it plainly outlaws Facebook's surveillance.

For nearly a decade, Facebook has pretended that this wasn't true, and they got away with it. Mostly, that's thanks to the fact that Ireland is a corporate crime-haven with a worse-than-useless Data Protection Commission:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town

But anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. Facebook has finally been dragged into EU federal jurisdiction, where it will face exterminatory fines if it continues to spy on Europeans:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge

In response, Facebook has rolled out a subscription version of its main service and its anticompetitive acquisition, Instagram:

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/

For €10/month, Facebook will give you an ad-free experience across its service offerings (it's €13/month if you pay through an app, as Facebook recoups the 30% #AdTax rents that the feudal Google/Apple mobile duopoly extracts).

But this doesn't come close to satisfying Facebook's legal obligations under the GDPR. The GDPR doesn't ban ads, it bans spying. Facebook spies on every single internet user, all the time. The apps we use are built with "free" Facebook toolkits that extract rent from the capitalists who make them by harvesting our data as we use their apps. The web-pages we visit have embedded Facebook libraries that do the same thing for web publishers. Facebook buys our data from brokers. Facebook has so many ways of spying on us that there's almost certainly no way for Facebook to stop spying on you, without radically transforming it operation.

To comply with the GDPR, Facebook must halt surveillance advertising altogether. There's no way to square "spying on users" with "you can't surveil without explicit consent, and you can't punish people for refusing."

And of course, "not spying" isn't the same as "not advertising." "Contextual advertising" – where ads are placed based on the thing you're looking at, not who you are and what you do – is hundreds of years old. Context ads underperform surveillance ads by a slim margin – about 5% – but they're vastly more profitable for publishers. That's because surveillance ads are feudal, controlled by rentiers like Facebook, who own vast troves of the surveillance data needed to run these ads. Traditional ad intermediaries (agencies, brokers) took 10-15% out of the total advertising market. Ad-tech companies – the Google/Facebook duopoly – take 51% out of every ad dollar spent.

Eliminate surveillance ads and you torch their feudal estates. Facebook will always know more about someone reading a news article than the publisher – but the publisher will always know more about the article than Facebook does:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

There are rents under capitalism, just as there are profits under feudalism. The defining characteristic of a system is what happens when rents and profits come into conflict. If profits win – for example, if productive companies beat patent trolls, or if news publishers escape Facebook's rent-extraction – then the system is capitalist. If rents win – if investors continue to bet large on the metaverse as its losses pass $50 billion and head for the $100 billion mark – then the system is feudal.

Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. The question isn't whether the platforms will eventually become so enshittified that they die – the question is whether they will go down in an all-consuming fireball, or whether they'll go down in a controlled demolition that lets us evacuate the people they've trapped inside them first:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/09/let-the-platforms-burn/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/markets-remaining-irrational/#steins-law

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The Metaverse: A New Frontier in Digital Interaction

The concept of the metaverse has captivated the imagination of technologists, futurists, and businesses alike. Envisioned as a collective virtual shared space, the metaverse merges physical and digital realities, offering immersive experiences and unprecedented opportunities for interaction, commerce, and creativity. This article delves into the metaverse, its potential impact on various sectors, the technologies driving its development, and notable projects shaping this emerging landscape.

What is the Metaverse?

The metaverse is a digital universe that encompasses virtual and augmented reality, providing a persistent, shared, and interactive online environment. In the metaverse, users can create avatars, interact with others, attend virtual events, own virtual property, and engage in economic activities. Unlike traditional online experiences, the metaverse aims to replicate and enhance the real world, offering seamless integration of the physical and digital realms.

Key Components of the Metaverse

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Augmented Reality (AR): AR overlays digital information onto the real world, enhancing user experiences through devices like smartphones and AR glasses. Examples include Pokémon GO and AR navigation apps that blend digital content with physical surroundings.

Virtual Reality (VR): VR provides immersive experiences through headsets that transport users to fully digital environments. Companies like Oculus, HTC Vive, and Sony PlayStation VR are leading the way in developing advanced VR hardware and software.

Blockchain Technology: Blockchain plays a crucial role in the metaverse by enabling decentralized ownership, digital scarcity, and secure transactions. NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and cryptocurrencies are integral to the metaverse economy, allowing users to buy, sell, and trade virtual assets.

Digital Economy: The metaverse features a robust digital economy where users can earn, spend, and invest in virtual goods and services. Virtual real estate, digital art, and in-game items are examples of assets that hold real-world value within the metaverse.

Potential Impact of the Metaverse

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Commerce and Retail: Virtual shopping experiences and digital marketplaces enable businesses to reach global audiences in innovative ways. Brands can create virtual storefronts, offer unique digital products, and engage customers through immersive experiences.

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Technologies Driving the Metaverse

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Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI enhances the metaverse by enabling realistic avatars, intelligent virtual assistants, and dynamic content generation. AI-driven algorithms can personalize experiences and optimize virtual interactions.

Wearable Technology: Wearable devices, such as VR headsets, AR glasses, and haptic feedback suits, provide users with immersive and interactive experiences. Advancements in wearable technology are critical for enhancing the metaverse experience.

Notable Metaverse Projects

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Conclusion

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Metaverse for Business: A Complete Starter Guide

The Metaverse is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a powerful tool that smart businesses are already using to grow faster, work better, and stand out.

Whether you're just hearing about it or looking to build your first virtual space, this starter guide will walk you through everything you need to know — in simple Indian English.

🌐 What Is the Metaverse for Business?

The Metaverse is a virtual 3D environment where businesses can:

Create virtual offices

Run remote meetings

Build digital showrooms

Offer training and customer support

Host events and exhibitions

It creates an immersive experience — a space that feels real even though it’s digital.

💼 Why Should Businesses Use the Metaverse?

Here are top reasons why companies are moving to the Metaverse:

✅ 1. Better Collaboration

Virtual offices allow remote teams to meet, talk, and work as if they’re in the same room — improving communication and productivity.

✅ 2. Cost-Effective

Save money on travel, office rent, and event spaces.

✅ 3. Innovative Brand Experience

Customers can explore your brand in a whole new way — through interactive 3D spaces.

✅ 4. Next-Level Product Showcases

Display products in 360° views with real-time interaction.

✅ 5. Employee Training

Create realistic training environments using AR/VR integration.

🧠 Beginner to Advanced: Step-by-Step Breakdown

🟢 Beginner Level – Understand the basics

Explore virtual events on platforms like Mozilla Hubs, Spatial, and FrameVR

Learn how avatars, environments, and voice chat work

Try visiting a simple Virtual Office (ask for demo)

🔵 Intermediate Level – Custom branding

Build your own branded virtual office or showroom

Add 3D models of products or services

Invite clients to walk through and interact

🔴 Advanced Level – Full integration

Add backend logic, interactivity, or real-time analytics

Use NFTs, blockchain, or VR headsets for high-end experiences

Host full-scale training or product launch events

🏢 Why Choose We3Vision as Your Metaverse Development Company?

At We3Vision Infotech, we build custom Metaverse experiences for startups, enterprises, and agencies.

Our services include:

🧑‍💻 Metaverse development (offices, events, showrooms)

🎮 Immersive experiences using AR/VR

📦 3D product visualizations

🎥 Short demo videos and reels

🤝 Hire Metaverse Developers in India (freelance or agency)

Check our work: 🔗 Dribbble Portfolio 🔗 Upwork Agency 🔗 LinkedIn Page

📌 Final Thoughts: Metaverse Is the New Business Tool

The Metaverse is not just about technology — it’s about transforming how we work and connect. From small startups to global brands, businesses are entering the virtual world to deliver next-gen experiences.

Ready to begin? 👉 Start with a demo or talk to our team — your virtual business journey starts here

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A Metaverse Development Company is crucial for digital transformation because it provides the specialized knowledge and technical capabilities needed to build immersive digital experiences, redefining how businesses interact with customers and operate.

Introduction: The Central Role of a Metaverse Development Company in Digital Change

Digital transformation involves businesses using digital technology to change operations, culture, and customer interactions. While this concept has been discussed for years, the rise of the metaverse introduces a new, deeper level of digital change. No longer just about websites or apps, digital presence now includes interactive, persistent virtual worlds. This is where a Metaverse Development Company becomes not just helpful, but truly necessary. These specialized firms possess the unique blend of technical skill and creative vision required to build these new digital spaces, making them central to any organization aiming for full digital transformation. Understanding their role helps clarify why they are so important.

Key Reasons a Metaverse Development Company is Central to Digital Transformation

Engaging with a specialized Metaverse Development Company is a strategic move for businesses aiming to truly modernize and secure their future in the digital age. Their contributions go beyond simply creating virtual spaces; they enable fundamental shifts in how businesses operate and engage.

1. Building Immersive Customer Experiences Through Metaverse Development

Digital transformation aims to improve how customers interact with a business. A Metaverse Development Company pushes this further by creating immersive experiences that are much more engaging than traditional digital channels. Instead of just Browse, customers can virtually enter a store, try products, attend digital events, or even co-create with a brand. This level of interaction builds stronger connections and loyalty, moving digital engagement from passive viewing to active participation. This deeper customer connection is a core part of digital transformation.

2. Opening New Digital Channels for Business Growth

The metaverse represents a new digital channel for businesses, much like the internet once was. A Metaverse Development Company helps businesses establish a presence in this new space, expanding their reach beyond current markets. This means businesses can access a global audience without physical barriers, reach new customer groups, and find fresh ways to sell products and services. For example, a physical product can have a digital twin sold as an NFT, or a service can be offered in a virtual office. This expansion of digital channels is a clear sign of transformation.

3. Facilitating Innovation in Product and Service Delivery

A Metaverse Development Solution allows businesses to innovate at a faster pace. They can create virtual prototypes of products, conduct simulations for training, or even set up virtual research and development labs. This reduces the time and expense associated with physical prototyping and testing. Businesses can get immediate feedback from virtual users, quickly refine offerings, and bring new ideas to market faster. This ability to experiment and innovate in a digital sandbox is a strong driver of digital change, as it allows for quicker adaptation and refinement.

Ready to lead your industry's digital shift? Partner with a Metaverse Development Company to build your innovative virtual presence.

4. Enhancing Employee Collaboration and Training with Metaverse Development Services

Digital transformation also extends to internal operations. A Metaverse Development Company can build virtual workspaces and training environments that improve collaboration among distributed teams. Employees can meet in virtual offices, attend interactive training simulations, or work together on projects in shared 3D spaces, regardless of their physical location. This can lead to more engaging and effective learning experiences, reduce travel costs, and foster a more connected workforce. These Metaverse Development Services provide new tools for internal efficiency and development.

5. Strengthening Brand Identity in the Digital Sphere

In a world full of digital noise, standing out is hard. A Metaverse Development Company helps businesses create a distinct and memorable brand identity within immersive virtual spaces. Brands can design unique virtual environments that reflect their values and personality, offering users an active way to engage with their brand story. This deep, experiential branding builds stronger brand recognition and creates a forward-thinking image. For businesses undergoing digital transformation, establishing a strong, active presence in the metaverse is key to future brand relevance.

6. Staying Competitive and Future-Ready

Businesses that do not adapt to new digital shifts risk falling behind. Partnering with a Metaverse Development Company ensures a business remains competitive and prepared for future changes. By investing in Metaverse Development, companies show they are leaders in digital innovation. This proactive approach helps them attract new customers who use technology and position themselves as innovators in their industry. This readiness for future digital shifts is a fundamental part of true digital transformation, ensuring a business's long-term viability.

Conclusion: A Metaverse Development Company as a Partner in Digital Evolution

The journey of digital transformation is continuous, and the metaverse marks its next major phase. A Metaverse Development Company is not merely a service provider but a crucial partner in this evolution. By enabling immersive customer experiences, opening new digital channels, supporting rapid innovation, improving internal operations, strengthening brand presence, and ensuring competitive readiness, these specialized firms are central to helping businesses fully achieve their digital transformation goals. Engaging with a competent Metaverse Development Solution provider is a strategic move for any business aiming to secure its place in the digital future.

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The Future of Social Media

The Future of Social Media: Trends and Innovations Shaping the Digital Landscape

Social media has transformed how we communicate, shop, and consume information. With over 5 billion social media users globally, platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn have become integral to our daily lives. But as technology evolves, social media is poised for even more significant changes. Let’s explore the future of social media, the key trends shaping its growth, and what businesses and users can expect in the coming years.

1. Rise of AI and Automation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionize social media by personalizing user experiences and automating content creation. ✅ AI-Driven Content: Platforms will use AI to create and suggest highly relevant content based on user behavior. ✅ Chatbots and Customer Service: AI-powered chatbots will provide instant responses and customer support. ✅ Enhanced Algorithm Efficiency: AI will refine algorithms to boost content visibility and engagement.

👉 Example: TikTok’s AI-based algorithm curates content precisely to user preferences, keeping users engaged for longer periods.

2. Growth of Short-Form Video Content

Short-form videos have become the preferred content format, thanks to platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. ✅ Higher Engagement: Short videos have higher engagement rates due to their fast-paced and interactive nature. ✅ Monetization Opportunities: Platforms are introducing more ways for creators to earn through video content. ✅ Live Streaming: Live videos drive real-time engagement and foster a stronger connection with audiences.

👉 Example: Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts have gained massive traction, encouraging brands to shift to short-form content.

3. Expansion of Social Commerce

Social media is no longer just for networking—it’s becoming a powerful e-commerce platform. ✅ Shoppable Posts: Platforms like Instagram and Pinterest allow users to buy products directly from posts. ✅ Influencer Marketing: Brands are investing heavily in influencer partnerships to drive sales. ✅ Livestream Shopping: Real-time product demonstrations and Q&A sessions boost consumer trust and conversions.

👉 Example: TikTok Shop and Instagram Checkout make it easy for users to purchase without leaving the app.

4. Rise of Decentralized Platforms

Concerns about data privacy and platform control have fueled the rise of decentralized social media. ✅ Blockchain Integration: Platforms using blockchain technology will offer greater transparency and user control. ✅ User-Owned Content: Decentralized networks will give users more control over their data and content. ✅ Reduced Censorship: Decentralization reduces the influence of large corporations on content moderation.

👉 Example: Platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky are gaining attention for their decentralized, user-driven models.

5. Influence of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR)

The Metaverse is driving the integration of VR and AR into social media experiences. ✅ Virtual Meetups: Users will engage in virtual hangouts and events using avatars. ✅ AR Filters and Lenses: Enhanced AR features will create more immersive and interactive content. ✅ Virtual Stores: Brands will launch virtual showrooms where users can explore products in 3D.

👉 Example: Snapchat’s AR lenses and Meta’s Horizon Worlds are early examples of this shift.

6. Increasing Role of Personalization

Social media will become more tailored to individual users’ preferences and behaviors. ✅ Custom Feeds: Platforms will offer more control over what content users see. ✅ Dynamic Ads: Advertisers will target users with highly personalized and relevant ads. ✅ User-Curated Content: Users will have more options to customize and control their content experience.

👉 Example: Netflix and Spotify have already set the standard for content personalization—social media is next.

7. Focus on Data Privacy and User Security

As privacy concerns grow, platforms will need to strengthen user data protection. ✅ End-to-End Encryption: Private messages and data will be encrypted to protect user privacy. ✅ Minimal Data Collection: Platforms will reduce data tracking to build user trust. ✅ User Consent: Users will have more control over how their data is shared and used.

👉 Example: Apple’s privacy updates and Google’s cookie phase-out reflect this shift toward stronger data protection.

8. Rise of Niche and Community-Based Platforms

Users are moving toward smaller, interest-based communities rather than large social networks. ✅ Specialized Platforms: Platforms focused on specific interests (e.g., fitness, gaming, fashion) will grow. ✅ Stronger User Engagement: Smaller communities foster deeper connections and higher engagement. ✅ Subscription Models: Exclusive content and community access will drive monetization.

👉 Example: Discord and Reddit thrive on niche, interest-based communities.

9. Greater Use of Influencer and Creator-Led Content

Influencers and content creators will continue to dominate social media marketing. ✅ Micro-Influencers: Brands will focus more on micro-influencers for higher engagement and authenticity. ✅ Creator Monetization: Platforms will introduce more revenue-sharing options for creators. ✅ Brand-Influencer Collaborations: Direct collaborations will become more strategic and long-term.

👉 Example: TikTok and Instagram’s creator funds encourage influencers to produce more content.

10. Integration of AI-Generated Content and Deepfakes

AI-generated content and deepfakes will become more common—and controversial. ✅ AI-Driven Ads: Brands will use AI to create hyper-personalized ad campaigns. ✅ Deepfake Risks: Platforms will need to regulate AI-generated content to prevent misinformation. ✅ Creative Opportunities: AI tools will enable more creative content production at lower costs.

👉 Example: AI-generated influencers like Lil Miquela have already gained significant social media followings.

How Businesses Can Prepare for the Future of Social Media

✔️ Invest in Short-Form Video: Focus on platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts for maximum reach. ✔️ Prioritize Authenticity: Engage with audiences using real and relatable content. ✔️ Embrace Personalization: Use AI-driven insights to deliver more targeted content. ✔️ Adapt to Privacy Changes: Align your strategy with evolving data privacy regulations. ✔️ Experiment with AR and VR: Integrate immersive experiences to enhance user engagement.

Conclusion

The future of social media will be shaped by AI, short-form video, social commerce, and greater personalization. For businesses and creators, staying ahead of these trends is essential to remain competitive and engage with evolving consumer preferences. As platforms evolve, those who embrace innovation and adapt quickly will thrive in the next phase of social media’s growth.

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As we step deeper into the digital age, the metaverse is transforming how we interact, learn, and conduct business. This virtual universe, characterized by immersive experiences and interactivity, is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of innovation. In India, one company is at the forefront of this evolution: Simulanis Solutions. As a leading Metaverse Development Agency, Simulanis is committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower businesses and engage users like never before.

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Top 10 Emerging Tech Trends to Watch in 2025

Technology is evolving at an unprecedented tempo, shaping industries, economies, and day by day lifestyles. As we method 2025, several contemporary technology are set to redefine how we engage with the sector. From synthetic intelligence to quantum computing, here are the important thing emerging tech developments to look at in 2025.

Top 10 Emerging Tech Trends In 2025

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Evolution

AI remains a dominant force in technological advancement. By 2025, we will see AI turning into greater sophisticated and deeply incorporated into corporations and personal programs. Key tendencies include:

Generative AI: AI fashions like ChatGPT and DALL·E will strengthen similarly, generating more human-like textual content, images, and even films.

AI-Powered Automation: Companies will more and more depend upon AI-pushed automation for customer support, content material advent, and even software development.

Explainable AI (XAI): Transparency in AI decision-making becomes a priority, ensuring AI is greater trustworthy and comprehensible.

AI in Healthcare: From diagnosing sicknesses to robot surgeries, AI will revolutionize healthcare, reducing errors and improving affected person results.

2. Quantum Computing Breakthroughs

Quantum computing is transitioning from theoretical studies to real-global packages. In 2025, we will expect:

More powerful quantum processors: Companies like Google, IBM, and startups like IonQ are making full-size strides in quantum hardware.

Quantum AI: Combining quantum computing with AI will enhance machine studying fashions, making them exponentially quicker.

Commercial Quantum Applications: Industries like logistics, prescribed drugs, and cryptography will begin leveraging quantum computing for fixing complex troubles that traditional computer systems can not manage successfully.

3. The Rise of Web3 and Decentralization

The evolution of the net continues with Web3, emphasizing decentralization, blockchain, and user possession. Key factors consist of:

Decentralized Finance (DeFi): More economic services will shift to decentralized platforms, putting off intermediaries.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Beyond Art: NFTs will find utility in actual estate, gaming, and highbrow belongings.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): These blockchain-powered organizations will revolutionize governance systems, making choice-making more obvious and democratic.

Metaverse Integration: Web3 will further integrate with the metaverse, allowing secure and decentralized digital environments.

4. Extended Reality (XR) and the Metaverse

Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) will retain to improve, making the metaverse extra immersive. Key tendencies consist of:

Lighter, More Affordable AR/VR Devices: Companies like Apple, Meta, and Microsoft are working on more accessible and cushty wearable generation.

Enterprise Use Cases: Businesses will use AR/VR for far flung paintings, education, and collaboration, lowering the want for physical office spaces.

Metaverse Economy Growth: Digital belongings, digital real estate, and immersive studies will gain traction, driven via blockchain technology.

AI-Generated Virtual Worlds: AI will play a role in developing dynamic, interactive, and ever-evolving virtual landscapes.

5. Sustainable and Green Technology

With growing concerns over weather alternate, generation will play a vital function in sustainability. Some key innovations include:

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): New techniques will emerge to seize and keep carbon emissions efficaciously.

Smart Grids and Renewable Energy Integration: AI-powered clever grids will optimize power distribution and consumption.

Electric Vehicle (EV) Advancements: Battery generation upgrades will cause longer-lasting, faster-charging EVs.

Biodegradable Electronics: The upward thrust of green digital additives will assist lessen e-waste.

6. Biotechnology and Personalized Medicine

Healthcare is present process a metamorphosis with biotech improvements. By 2025, we expect:

Gene Editing and CRISPR Advances: Breakthroughs in gene modifying will enable treatments for genetic disorders.

Personalized Medicine: AI and big statistics will tailor remedies based on man or woman genetic profiles.

Lab-Grown Organs and Tissues: Scientists will make in addition progress in 3D-published organs and tissue engineering.

Wearable Health Monitors: More superior wearables will music fitness metrics in actual-time, presenting early warnings for illnesses.

7. Edge Computing and 5G Expansion

The developing call for for real-time statistics processing will push aspect computing to the vanguard. In 2025, we will see:

Faster 5G Networks: Global 5G insurance will increase, enabling excessive-velocity, low-latency verbal exchange.

Edge AI Processing: AI algorithms will system information in the direction of the source, reducing the want for centralized cloud computing.

Industrial IoT (IIoT) Growth: Factories, deliver chains, and logistics will advantage from real-time facts analytics and automation.

Eight. Cybersecurity and Privacy Enhancements

With the upward thrust of AI, quantum computing, and Web3, cybersecurity will become even more essential. Expect:

AI-Driven Cybersecurity: AI will come across and prevent cyber threats extra effectively than traditional methods.

Zero Trust Security Models: Organizations will undertake stricter get right of entry to controls, assuming no entity is inherently sincere.

Quantum-Resistant Cryptography: As quantum computer systems turn out to be greater effective, encryption techniques will evolve to counter potential threats.

Biometric Authentication: More structures will rely on facial reputation, retina scans, and behavioral biometrics.

9. Robotics and Automation

Automation will hold to disrupt numerous industries. By 2025, key trends encompass:

Humanoid Robots: Companies like Tesla and Boston Dynamics are growing robots for commercial and family use.

AI-Powered Supply Chains: Robotics will streamline logistics and warehouse operations.

Autonomous Vehicles: Self-using automobiles, trucks, and drones will become greater not unusual in transportation and shipping offerings.

10. Space Exploration and Commercialization

Space era is advancing swiftly, with governments and private groups pushing the boundaries. Trends in 2025 include:

Lunar and Mars Missions: NASA, SpaceX, and other groups will development of their missions to establish lunar bases.

Space Tourism: Companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will make industrial area travel more reachable.

Asteroid Mining: Early-level research and experiments in asteroid mining will start, aiming to extract rare materials from area.

#Top 10 Emerging Tech Trends In 2025 #quantum computing

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Best 10 Blockchain Development Companies in India 2025

Blockchain technology is transforming industries by enhancing security, transparency, and efficiency. With India's growing IT ecosystem, several companies specialize in blockchain development services, catering to industries like finance, healthcare, supply chain, and gaming. If you're looking for a trusted blockchain development company in India, here are the top 10 companies in 2025 that are leading the way with cutting-edge blockchain solutions.

1. Comfygen

Comfygen is a leading blockchain development company in India, offering comprehensive blockchain solutions for businesses worldwide. Their expertise includes smart contract development, dApps, DeFi platforms, NFT marketplaces, and enterprise blockchain solutions. With a strong focus on security and scalability, Comfygen delivers top-tier blockchain applications tailored to business needs.

Key Services:

Smart contract development

Blockchain consulting & integration

NFT marketplace development

DeFi solutions & decentralized exchanges (DEX)

2. Infosys

Infosys, a globally recognized IT giant, offers advanced blockchain solutions to enterprises looking to integrate distributed ledger technology (DLT) into their operations. Their blockchain services focus on supply chain, finance, and identity management.

Key Services:

Enterprise blockchain solutions

Smart contracts & decentralized apps

Blockchain security & auditing

3. Wipro

Wipro is known for its extensive research and development in blockchain technology. They help businesses integrate blockchain into their financial systems, healthcare, and logistics for better transparency and efficiency.

Key Services:

Blockchain consulting & strategy

Supply chain blockchain solutions

Smart contract development

4. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

TCS is a pioneer in the Indian IT industry and provides robust blockchain solutions, helping enterprises optimize business processes with secure and scalable decentralized applications.

Key Services:

Enterprise blockchain development

Tokenization & digital asset solutions

Decentralized finance (DeFi) applications

5. Hyperlink InfoSystem

Hyperlink InfoSystem is a well-established blockchain development company in India, specializing in building customized blockchain solutions for industries like finance, gaming, and supply chain.

Key Services:

Blockchain-based mobile app development

Smart contract auditing & security

NFT marketplace & DeFi solutions

6. Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra provides blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solutions, ensuring that businesses leverage blockchain for improved transparency and automation. They focus on finance, telecom, and supply chain industries.

Key Services:

Blockchain implementation & consulting

dApp development & smart contracts

Digital identity management solutions

7. Antier Solutions

Antier Solutions is a specialized blockchain development firm offering DeFi solutions, cryptocurrency exchange development, and metaverse applications. They provide custom blockchain solutions for startups and enterprises.

Key Services:

DeFi platform development

NFT & metaverse development

White-label crypto exchange development

8. HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies offers enterprise blockchain development services, focusing on improving security, efficiency, and automation across multiple sectors.

Key Services:

Blockchain-based digital payments

Hyperledger & Ethereum development

Secure blockchain network architecture

9. SoluLab

SoluLab is a trusted blockchain development company working on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana-based solutions for businesses across industries.

Key Services:

Smart contract & token development

Decentralized application (dApp) development

AI & blockchain integration

10. Mphasis

Mphasis provides custom blockchain solutions to enterprises, ensuring secure transactions and seamless business operations.

Key Services:

Blockchain for banking & financial services

Smart contract development & deployment

Blockchain security & risk management

Conclusion

India is emerging as a global hub for blockchain technology, with companies specializing in secure, scalable, and efficient blockchain development services. Whether you're a startup or an enterprise looking for custom blockchain solutions, these top 10 blockchain development companies in India provide world-class expertise and innovation.

Looking for the best blockchain development partner? Comfygen offers cutting-edge blockchain solutions to help your business thrive in the decentralized era. Contact us today to start your blockchain journey!

#blockchain #crypto #cryptocurrency #altcoin #digitalcurrency #bitcoin #business

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How Blockchain & AI Are Powering the Future of Metaverse Development

Introduction: The Tech Duo Redefining Metaverse Development

In today's digital revolution, blockchain and AI are the backbone of metaverse development. These technologies are not just enhancing virtual worlds but also creating secure and immersive ecosystems for businesses and users alike. With blockchain providing transparency and security, and AI delivering intelligent automation, the metaverse is evolving into a more engaging and efficient platform.

What is Metaverse?

The metaverse is a 3D virtual space that blends augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), blockchain, and AI to offer interactive experiences. Users can socialize, conduct business, and explore virtual environments with real-time interactions.

What is Metaverse Marketing?

Metaverse marketing leverages virtual environments to engage audiences. It includes virtual storefronts, interactive brand experiences, and digital advertising through virtual billboards. Brands can host virtual events, product launches, and even customer service interactions to build stronger connections with their audience.

Why Metaverse is Important for Business

The metaverse opens doors for businesses to connect with customers, host virtual events, and offer unique digital experiences. It allows brands to reach global audiences, enhance customer engagement, and create new revenue streams through virtual assets and NFTs.

What Makes Blockchain and AI the Core of Metaverse Growth?

Blockchain Basics: Securing the Metaverse

Secure and transparent transactions: Blockchain records every transaction on a decentralized ledger, ensuring transparency.

Ownership verification through NFTs: Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) allow users to own digital assets securely.

Data protection and privacy: Blockchain encryption protects user data and prevents unauthorized access.

Decentralized control of digital assets: Users have complete control over their virtual assets without intermediaries.

AI’s Magic Touch: Bringing Metaverse Worlds to Life

Realistic virtual environments: AI generates lifelike environments and enhances user interaction.

Intelligent virtual avatars: AI-driven avatars can respond and adapt to user behavior.

Predictive analytics: AI analyzes user data to provide personalized experiences.

Automated content creation: AI tools can design virtual worlds and characters efficiently.

Real-World Wins: Blockchain and AI in Metaverse Projects

Gaming in the Metaverse: Where Blockchain Meets AI

In metaverse gaming platforms, blockchain enables secure in-game asset ownership, while AI enhances character interactions and game environments. This combination allows players to trade digital assets and enjoy lifelike gaming experiences.

Virtual Economies: How Blockchain and AI Create Value

Blockchain-based tokens and NFTs: Allow users to buy, sell, and trade virtual assets.

AI-driven analytics: Helps businesses understand user behavior and optimize virtual economy strategies.

Smart contract-based financial systems: Ensures fair and automated transactions.

Secure data storage: Protects sensitive information on decentralized networks.

Why Blockchain and AI Are the Heart of Metaverse Development Solutions

Metaverse Development Basics: Where Blockchain and AI Shine

Blockchain guarantees data security and asset ownership, while AI automates processes and delivers intelligent interactions. Together, they drive innovation and scalability.

How Blockchain Secures Metaverse Application Development

Decentralized networks for data security: Protects against cyberattacks and data breaches.

Smart contract automation: Enables transparent and efficient transactions.

Ownership verification through NFTs: Ensures authenticity and uniqueness of virtual assets.

Fraud prevention mechanisms: Reduces the risk of unauthorized access and manipulation.

Metaverse Development Services Fueled by AI and Blockchain

What Metaverse Development Services Gain from AI Innovation

AI enhances virtual customer support, generates virtual content, and provides advanced analytics to improve customer satisfaction.

Blockchain’s Role in Metaverse Gaming Platform Development

Blockchain enables secure tokenization, NFT integration, and decentralized asset management. This technology allows players to own in-game assets and trade them across different platforms.

Who’s Building the Future? Metaverse Development Company in Action

Malgo is leading the charge in metaverse development by leveraging blockchain and AI technologies. Their expertise in building secure, scalable, and immersive platforms makes them the ideal choice for businesses aiming to dominate the virtual world.

Picking a Metaverse Development Company That Delivers

Assess blockchain and AI expertise: Check the company’s technical capabilities.

Review customer feedback: Analyze past client reviews and testimonials.

Evaluate customization options: Ensure flexibility in development services.

Ensure data security compliance: Verify adherence to security protocols.

Inside a Metaverse App Development Company: AI and Blockchain at Work

A metaverse development company integrates AI for intelligent features and blockchain for secure asset management. This ensures seamless virtual experiences and secure digital ownership.

The Next Big Leap: Metaverse Development Trends to Watch

AI-Driven Features Shaping Metaverse Development Solutions

AI-powered avatars, predictive analytics, and automated content generation are transforming user experiences in the metaverse. These features enhance user engagement and offer personalized virtual environments.

Blockchain-Powered Ownership in Metaverse Gaming Platform Development

NFT-based ownership of virtual items: Enables secure trading of unique assets.

Smart contract-driven transactions: Ensures transparency and fairness.

Decentralized financial systems: Supports secure and instant payments.

Cross-platform compatibility: Allows seamless asset transfer between platforms.

Final Thoughts: Blockchain, AI, and the Metaverse Development

The fusion of blockchain and AI is shaping the future of metaverse development. Build your virtual empire with advanced Metaverse Development solutions today! With blockchain ensuring security and transparency and AI enhancing user experiences and automation, businesses can create immersive virtual platforms. For businesses aiming to thrive in the virtual world, partnering with Malgo is the perfect choice to build secure, scalable, and immersive metaverse platforms.

#MetaverseDevelopment #MetaverseTechnology #MetaverseSolutions #BlockchainMetaverse #AIMetaverse

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Zuck’s gravity-defying metaverse money-pit

#enshittification #zuckerberg

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The antitrust case against Apple

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The foundational tenet of "the Cult of Mac" is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

Call it "Apple exceptionalism" – the idea that Apple, alone among the Big Tech firms, is virtuous, and therefore its conduct should be interpreted through that lens of virtue. The wellspring of this virtue is conveniently nebulous, which allows for endless goal-post shifting by members of the Cult of Mac when Apple's sins are made manifest.

Take the claim that Apple is "privacy respecting," which is attributed to Apple's business model of financing its services though cash transactions, rather than by selling it customers to advertisers. This is the (widely misunderstood) crux of the "surveillance capitalism" hypothesis: that capitalism is just fine, but once surveillance is in the mix, capitalism fails.

Apple, then, is said to be a virtuous company because its behavior is disciplined by market forces, unlike its spying rivals, whose ability to "hack our dopamine loops" immobilizes the market's invisible hand with "behavior-shaping" shackles:

http://pluralistic.net/HowToDestroySurveillanceCapitalism

Apple makes a big deal out of its privacy-respecting ethos, and not without some justification. After all, Apple went to the mattresses to fight the FBI when they tried to force Apple to introduced defects into its encryption systems:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/fbi-could-have-gotten-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-leadership-didnt-say

And Apple gave Ios users the power to opt out of Facebook spying with a single click; 96% of its customers took them up on this offer, costing Facebook $10b (one fifth of the pricetag of the metaverse boondoggle!) in a single year (you love to see it):

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/facebook-makes-the-case-for-activity-tracking-to-ios-14-users-in-new-pop-ups/

Bruce Schneier has a name for this practice: "feudal security." That's when you cede control over your device to a Big Tech warlord whose "walled garden" becomes a fortress that defends you against external threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/08/leona-helmsley-was-a-pioneer/#manorialism

The keyword here is external threats. When Apple itself threatens your privacy, the fortress becomes a prison. The fact that you can't install unapproved apps on your Ios device means that when Apple decides to harm you, you have nowhere to turn. The first Apple customers to discover this were in China. When the Chinese government ordered Apple to remove all working privacy tools from its App Store, the company obliged, rather than risk losing access to its ultra-cheap manufacturing base (Tim Cook's signal accomplishment, the one that vaulted him into the CEO's seat, was figuring out how to offshore Apple manufacturing to China) and hundreds of millions of middle-class consumers:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-vpn/apple-says-it-is-removing-vpn-services-from-china-app-store-idUSKBN1AE0BQ

Killing VPNs and other privacy tools was just for openers. After Apple caved to Beijing, the demands kept coming. Next, Apple willingly backdoored all its Chinese cloud services, so that the Chinese state could plunder its customers' data at will:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html

This was the completely foreseeable consequence of Apple's "curated computing" model: once the company arrogated to itself the power to decide which software you could run on your own computer, it was inevitable that powerful actors – like the Chinese Communist Party – would lean on Apple to exercise that power in service to its goals.

Unsurprisingly, the Chinese state's appetite for deputizing Apple to help with its spying and oppression was not sated by backdooring iCloud and kicking VPNs out of the App Store. As recently as 2022, Apple continued to neuter its tools at the behest of the Chinese state, breaking Airdrop to make it useless for organizing protests in China:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/11/foreseeable-consequences/#airdropped

But the threat of Apple turning on its customers isn't limited to China. While the company has been unwilling to spy on its users on behalf of the US government, it's proven more than willing to compromise its worldwide users' privacy to pad its own profits. Remember when Apple let its users opt out of Facebook surveillance with one click? At the very same time, Apple was spinning up its own commercial surveillance program, spying on Ios customers, gathering the very same data as Facebook, and for the very same purpose: to target ads. When it came to its own surveillance, Apple completely ignored its customers' explicit refusal to consent to spying, spied on them anyway, and lied about it:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Here's the thing: even if you believe that Apple has a "corporate personality" that makes it want to do the right thing, that desire to be virtuous is dependent on the constraints Apple faces. The fact that Apple has complete legal and technical control over the hardware it sells – the power to decide who can make software that runs on that hardware, the power to decide who can fix that hardware, the power to decide who can sell parts for that hardware – represents an irresistible temptation to enshittify Apple products.

"Constraints" are the crux of the enshittification hypothesis. The contagion that spread enshittification to every corner of our technological world isn't a newfound sadism or indifference among tech bosses. Those bosses are the same people they've always been – the difference is that today, they are unconstrained.

Having bought, merged or formed a cartel with all their rivals, they don't fear competition (Apple buys 90+ companies per year, and Google pays it an annual $26.3b bribe for default search on its operating systems and programs).

Having captured their regulators, they don't fear fines or other penalties for cheating their customers, workers or suppliers (Apple led the coalition that defeated dozens of Right to Repair bills, year after year, in the late 2010s).

Having wrapped themselves in IP law, they don't fear rivals who make alternative clients, mods, privacy tools or other "adversarial interoperability" tools that disenshittify their products (Apple uses the DMCA, trademark, and other exotic rules to block third-party software, repair, and clients).

True virtue rests not merely in resisting temptation to be wicked, but in recognizing your own weakness and avoiding temptation. As I wrote when Apple embarked on its "curated computing" path, the company would eventually – inevitably – use its power to veto its customers' choices to harm those customers:

https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

Which is where we're at today. Apple – uniquely among electronics companies – shreds every device that is traded in by its customers, to block third parties from harvesting working components and using them for independent repair:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks

Apple engraves microscopic Apple logos on those parts and uses these as the basis for trademark complaints to US customs, to block the re-importation of parts that escape its shredders:

https://repair.eu/news/apple-uses-trademark-law-to-strengthen-its-monopoly-on-repair/

Apple entered into an illegal price-fixing conspiracy with Amazon to prevent used and refurbished devices from being sold in the "world's biggest marketplace":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/10/you-had-one-job/#thats-just-the-as

Why is Apple so opposed to independent repair? Well, they say it's to keep users safe from unscrupulous or incompetent repair technicians (feudal security). But when Tim Cook speaks to his investors, he tells a different story, warning them that the company's profits are threatened by customers who choose to repair (rather than replace) their slippery, fragile glass $1,000 pocket computers (the fortress becomes a prison):

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/

All this adds up to a growing mountain of immortal e-waste, festooned with miniature Apple logos, that our descendants will be dealing with for the next 1,000 years. In the face of this unspeakable crime, Apple engaged in a string of dishonest maneuvers, claiming that it would support independent repair. In 2022, Apple announced a home repair program that turned out to be a laughably absurd con:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/22/apples-cement-overshoes/

Then in 2023, Apple announced a fresh "pro-repair" initiative that, once again, actually blocked repair:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

Let's pause here a moment and remember that Apple once stood for independent repair, and celebrated the independent repair technicians that kept its customers' beloved Macs running:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/29/norwegian-potato-flour-enchiladas/#r2r

Whatever virtue lurks in Apple's corporate personhood, it is no match for the temptation that comes from running a locked-down platform designed to capture IP rights so that it can prevent normal competitive activities, like fixing phones, processing payments, or offering apps.

When Apple rolled out the App Store, Steve Jobs promised that it would save journalism and other forms of "content creation" by finally giving users a way to pay rightsholders. A decade later, that promise has been shattered by the app tax – a 30% rake on every in-app transaction that can't be avoided because Apple will kick your app out of the App Store if you even mention that your customers can pay you via the web in order to avoid giving a third of their content dollars to a hardware manufacturer that contributed nothing to the production of that material:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-must-open-app-stores

Among the apps that Apple also refuses to allow on Ios is third-party browsers. Every Iphone browser is just a reskinned version of Apple's Safari, running on the same antiquated, insecure Webkit browser engine. The fact that Webkit is incomplete and outdated is a feature, not a bug, because it lets Apple block web apps – apps delivered via browsers, rather than app stores:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kitbashed/#app-store-tax

Last month, the EU took aim at Apple's veto over its users' and software vendors' ability to transact with one another. The newly in-effect Digital Markets Act requires Apple to open up both third-party payment processing and third-party app stores. Apple's response to this is the very definition of malicious compliance, a snake's nest of junk-fees, onerous terms of service, and petty punitive measures that all add up to a great, big "Go fuck yourself":

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/#dma

But Apple's bullying, privacy invasion, price-gouging and environmental crimes are global, and the EU isn't the only government seeking to end them. They're in the firing line in Japan:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-to-crack-down-on-Apple-and-Google-app-store-monopolies

And in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-wins-appeal-in-apple-case

And now, famously, the US Department of Justice is coming for Apple, with a bold antitrust complaint that strikes at the heart of Apple exceptionalism, the idea that monopoly is safer for users than technological self-determination:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline

There's passages in the complaint that read like I wrote them:

Apple wraps itself in a cloak of privacy, security, and consumer preferences to justify its anticompetitive conduct. Indeed, it spends billions on marketing and branding to promote the self-serving premise that only Apple can safeguard consumers’ privacy and security interests. Apple selectively compromises privacy and security interests when doing so is in Apple’s own financial interest—such as degrading the security of text messages, offering governments and certain companies the chance to access more private and secure versions of app stores, or accepting billions of dollars each year for choosing Google as its default search engine when more private options are available. In the end, Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract to serve Apple’s financial and business interests.

After all, Apple punishes its customers for communicating with Android users by forcing them to do so without any encryption. When Beeper Mini rolled out an Imessage-compatible Android app that fixed this, giving Iphone owners the privacy Apple says they deserve but denies to them, Apple destroyed Beeper Mini:

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-moving-forward

Tim Cook is on record about this: if you want to securely communicate with an Android user, you must "buy them an Iphone":

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility

If your friend, family member or customer declines to change mobile operating systems, Tim Cook insists that you must communicate without any privacy or security.

Even where Apple tries for security, it sometimes fails ("security is a process, not a product" -B. Schneier). To be secure in a benevolent dictatorship, it must also be an infallible dictatorship. Apple's far from infallible: Eight generations of Iphones have unpatchable hardware defects:

https://checkm8.info/

And Apple's latest custom chips have secret-leaking, unpatchable vulnerabilities:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

Apple's far from infallible – but they're also far from benevolent. Despite Apple's claims, its hardware, operating system and apps are riddled with deliberate privacy defects, introduce to protect Apple's shareholders at the expense of its customers:

https://proton.me/blog/iphone-privacy

Now, antitrust suits are notoriously hard to make, especially after 40 years of bad-precedent-setting, monopoly-friendly antitrust malpractice. Much of the time, these suits fail because they can't prove that tech bosses intentionally built their monopolies. However, tech is a written culture, one that leaves abundant, indelible records of corporate deliberations. What's more, tech bosses are notoriously prone to bragging about their nefarious intentions, committing them to writing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/

Apple is no exception – there's an abundance of written records that establish that Apple deliberately, illegally set out to create and maintain a monopoly:

https://www.wired.com/story/4-internal-apple-emails-helped-doj-build-antitrust-case/

Apple claims that its monopoly is beneficent, used to protect its users, making its products more "elegant" and safe. But when Apple's interests conflict with its customers' safety and privacy – and pocketbooks – Apple always puts itself first, just like every other corporation. In other words: Apple is unexceptional.

The Cult of Mac denies this. They say that no one wants to use a third-party app store, no one wants third-party payments, no one wants third-party repair. This is obviously wrong and trivially disproved: if no Apple customer wanted these things, Apple wouldn't have to go to enormous lengths to prevent them. The only phones that an independent Iphone repair shop fixes are Iphones: which means Iphone owners want independent repair.

The rejoinder from the Cult of Mac is that those Iphone owners shouldn't own Iphones: if they wanted to exercise property rights over their phones, they shouldn't have bought a phone from Apple. This is the "No True Scotsman" fallacy for distraction-rectangles, and moreover, it's impossible to square with Tim Cook's insistence that if you want private communications, you must buy an Iphone.

Apple is unexceptional. It's just another Big Tech monopolist. Rounded corners don't preserve virtue any better than square ones. Any company that is freed from constraints – of competition, regulation and interoperability – will always enshittify. Apple – being unexceptional – is no exception.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

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Tools and Methods for Extracting Metaverse VR Using XMLTV EPG Grabber

Metaverse VR has become an increasingly popular and immersive way for people to interact and engage with digital environments.

One of the key aspects of the Metaverse VR experience is the ability to access Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data to discover and schedule virtual events, shows, and activities.

In this blog post, we'll explore various tools and methods available for extracting Metaverse VR data using epg grabber.

What is XMLTV EPG Grabber?

XMLTV is a set of programs to process TV (tvguide) listings and help manage your TV viewing, recording, and scheduling. XMLTV EPG grabber is a tool specifically designed to extract EPG data from various sources and provide a standardized XML format for TV listings.

This format can be utilized to populate electronic program guides in various applications, including those for Metaverse VR experiences.

Tools for Extracting Metaverse VR Using XMLTV EPG Grabber

1. XMLTV GUI Grabber

XMLTV GUI Grabber is a user-friendly graphical interface tool that allows users to easily configure and run XMLTV grabbers. It provides a simple way to select sources, set up grabber options, and initiate the extraction process. This tool is suitable for users who prefer a more intuitive and visually guided approach to EPG data extraction.

2. Web-based XMLTV Grabbers

There are several web-based services and tools that offer XMLTV EPG grabber functionality. These platforms typically allow users to input their desired sources and parameters, and then generate XMLTV-compatible output for consumption in Metaverse VR applications.

Web-based grabbers are accessible from any device with an internet connection, making them convenient for users who require flexibility in their data extraction process.

3. Custom Scripting and Automation

For users with specific requirements or unique sources for Metaverse VR EPG data, custom scripting and automation can be employed to extract and format the XMLTV data. This method involves writing custom scripts or utilizing automation tools to retrieve and process EPG data from different sources, providing a high degree of customization and flexibility.

Methods for Utilizing Extracted EPG Data in Metaverse VR

Once the EPG data has been extracted using XMLTV grabbers, there are several methods for utilizing this data within the Metaverse VR environment:

Integration with Virtual Event Scheduling: EPG data can be integrated into virtual event scheduling systems within the Metaverse VR, allowing users to discover and RSVP to upcoming virtual events and experiences.

Customized Virtual TV Guide: The extracted EPG data can be used to create a customized virtual TV guide within the Metaverse VR, enabling users to browse and select virtual shows and broadcasts to attend.

Personalized Notifications and Reminders: Utilizing the extracted EPG data, personalized notifications and reminders can be sent to users within the Metaverse VR to ensure they don't miss out on their favorite virtual events or activities.

XMLTV EPG grabbers provide a valuable means of extracting xmltv epg format for use within the Metaverse VR. Whether through user-friendly graphical interfaces, web-based services, or custom scripting, these tools and methods empower users to enrich their virtual experiences with relevant and up-to-date content.

By leveraging the extracted EPG data, developers and content creators can enhance the richness and interactivity of the Metaverse VR environment, offering users a more immersive and engaging virtual experience.

Developing Mixed Reality Applications with XMLTV Data

Mixed Reality (MR) applications have been gaining traction in recent years, revolutionizing the way we interact with our digital environment. A key factor in the improvement of XMLTV data for parsing and presentation. This comprehensive guide will introduce you to the world of XMLTV data parsing and the role it plays in the development of MR applications. We'll also delve into open-source tools and scripts that can enhance your MR development experience.

Understanding XMLTV in the Context of Mixed Reality

XMLTV is a standard that is primarily used for the interchange of TV program schedule information. However, its versatile nature allows it to be adapted for use in the development of MR applications.

XMLTV Data Parsing

XMLTV data parsing is a method of extracting useful information from XMLTV feeds. This data can be used to populate the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) of a MR application, providing users with information on available programs.

Metaverse on XMLTV technology

The metaverse, a collective virtual shared space created by the convergence of physical and virtual reality, can benefit from the use of XMLTV technology. XMLTV data can be used to create a more immersive and interactive experience for users in the metaverse.

Integrating VR CGI and XMLTV

Virtual Reality (VR) Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) can be integrated with XMLTV data to create more realistic and engaging MR experiences. This integration can also enhance the user's sense of presence in the MR environment.

Open-Source Tools and Scripts for XMLTV Data Parsing

There are numerous open-source tools and scripts available for XMLTV data parsing. These tools help developers to parse, manipulate, and present XMLTV data in their MR applications.

TVHeadEnd

TVHeadEnd is an open-source TV streaming server and recorder that supports XMLTV data. It can parse and save XMLTV data into the EPG database, providing a crucial function for MR applications.

M3U

M3U is a simple text format that can be used to create playlists and organize XMLTV data. It can be used in conjunction with XMLTV data to create a more structured and user-friendly EPG.

XPath

XPath is a language that is used to navigate through elements and attributes in XML documents. It can be used to identify specific nodes or attributes in xmltv descriptions that contain useful EPG information.

StereoKit

StereoKit is an open-source mixed reality library for building HoloLens, VR, and desktop experiences. It can be used to create cross-platform MR experiences with C# and OpenXR.

Building Interactive Mixed Reality Interfaces in XMLTV Data Parsing and Presentation

Building interactive MR interfaces using XMLTV data parsing and presentation involves several steps. These include setting up your development environment, parsing the XMLTV data, creating the MR interface, and testing the application.

Setting Up Your Development Environment

Before you can start developing your MR application, you need to set up your development environment. This typically involves installing the necessary software and hardware, such as a MR headset, a development IDE, and the necessary SDKs.

Parsing XMLTV Data

Once your development environment is set up, you can start parsing the XMLTV data. This involves extracting useful information from the XMLTV feed and saving it into your application's EPG database.

Creating the MR Interface

After parsing the XMLTV data, you can start creating the MR interface. This involves designing and implementing the user interface elements, such as menus, controls, and displays.

Testing the Application

Once the MR interface is complete, you can start testing your application. This involves checking the functionality of the application and ensuring that the XMLTV data is correctly parsed and presented.

Developing mixed reality applications using XMLTV data involves a combination of data parsing, interface design, and application testing. By understanding the role of XMLTV data in MR development and utilizing the available open-source tools and scripts, you can create engaging and interactive MR applications. So, dive into the world of XMLTV and explore how it can enhance your MR development experience.

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