This announcement completes the betrayal of their founding principles.
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."
- Not advancing digital intelligence
- While locking people into a superapp
- Because they are further constrained to generating financial returnsNot too dissimilar from what most companies that start prioritizing growth also do, unfortunately.
Is there a way out of this though? The seed is already planted and everything else is just a PR.
Founding principles = initial marketing strategy