Smart phone sales have been declining. The peak was, i beie 20 16. And so everybody's looking for what the next big platform could be. For a company like meta, it would be great if people slowly shifted away from smart phones and on to something else. If you're in vr, you're very much not in the real world. A r is the thing that i think, if anything is going to replace the smart phone, i think it's more likely to be a r than vr.
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