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[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

I mean this is just a natural progression of any sufficiently successful company. They've successfully maximized their current value so now they must exploit and plunder that value to push into other markets. Its why Netflix has video games, its why YouTube pushes Shorts, and why Facebook got into VR, and why Tesla is getting into AI and robotics and on and on and on...