The language in these announcements is so cliched and tired. You're not "joining" anything, you were bought and now you work somewhere else. This isn't a baby shower or an engagement announcement, if anything your users are probably unhappy that their product is vaporizing, not thrilled for your Incredible Journey.
It's true that acquisition announcements have gotten like that, but so has the genre of the angry internet comment response to them. The former, at least, contain a small amount of information; the latter only bitterness.
Nope, the first is an insult to the intelligence of the reader while the second is a reaction to the first. Honesty in communication is a virtue, not something to be squandered and trampled upon.
The irony of this is comment is killing me!
How is this a noteworthy comment? You admit that press releases like this are tired and cliche and misleading marketing speak, and then somehow expect people to not be unhappy with that, or to not express their opinion? This is a discussion platform, people will discuss things. There's not a whole lot to say about this article because there's so few details on what's going to change because of this (other than it being free).
The idea of HN is to go for interesting discussion. Responding to a cliché with another, angrier cliché isn't interesting, because once something has become a cliché it's by definition predictable. At that point all you get is reflexive piling-on, not new insights.
Cool. Make it more difficult for devs to support more than one VR device (or even both PC and Oculus) by forcing them to implement more than one audio pipeline.
I hope this doesn't fizzle out their inertia, similar to what seems to be happening to Occulus, in comparison to Vive smoking past em'.
That domain name is terribly ambiguous. One of those brand names that doesn't translate well to a domain. Keep reading the domain as gears. Hah. PSA to anyone building a brand or picking a name.