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Posted3 months agoActive3 months ago
Ask HN: Why are Meta's Glasses being so openly promoted by popular Tech Blogs?
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Ask HN: Why are Meta's Glasses being so openly promoted by popular Tech Blogs?
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Popular tech blogs do not promote products because of the goodness of their hearts, but for money.
Placing an article in a tech blog costs between $20,000 and $30,000, depending on the blog’s reputation, and everybody can do it.
So, it is not that the tech blogs are particularly enthusiastic about the Glasses; it’s more that Meta is throwing money left and right to promote them.
3 months ago
It's like product placement in TV shows and movies. It's all about creating or reinforcing the illusion that something is popular.
3 months ago
The hardware is genuinely interesting
3 months ago
All commercialized tech is creepy, dystopian and dangerous. Hasn't ever stopped tech reviewers, or tech customers.
3 months ago
Money. And for the most part, tech blogs cannot just promote stuff that doesn't spy on you, because there is not much of it left to promote.