Thus far, what has the bottom line value add been by their R&D ventures? Some of their open compute and a few other things have been nice. But, of the billions upon billions they’ve spent what have they had to show for it?

As noted in the past. Non hardware tech companies were and still are bloated.

Untrue. It adds a great amount of value to 'ole Zuck's ego.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-b...