Meta's Mobile Miss and How AI Agents Threaten the Attention Economy
dbreunig · x · 2026-07-07
dbreunig analyzes two points: First, Meta actually rose to prominence by missing the initial mobile era, becoming a neutral third-party app on iOS/Android and thus building the best advertising metric system since CPC and CPI. Second, AI agents have the potential to threaten the attention economy, which is exactly what Meta has long optimized for regarding user retention and attention share on its platforms.
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