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I can understand the feeling of betrayal, but do you think they did it on purpose? I rather assume they were overly optimistic and reality made it harder to del

• hacker_9 11y ago
  That's naive. They are always looking to maximise profits, and what better way than to sell it as a dream product way ahead of any of it's competitors?
  • teye23452 11y ago
    That is overly pessimistic. Given the years of research that went into this product and obviously has continued into the hololens - I highly doubt it was for this little scheme you mention.
  • partiallypro 11y ago
    Do you honestly think Microsoft is going to make a killer profit from Hololens from selling dev kits? Give me a break. The technology and cost behind this is astronomical, Microsoft is likely selling this close to cost. People are singling out Microsoft here, but seemingly forget all of the promises Apple and Google are always making, when Google had to can Glass and Apple can't even get Airdrop to work correctly.
  • Someone 11y ago
    I'm not making any judgment call on this product, but selling something as a dream product at a high price and delivering a product that disappoints as a dream product can give the mass market, where the bulk of the money is, to a competitor coming out with a product that is inferior in features to your v1 product, even if your v2 product ships at the same time as your competitor's product with better features at a lower price.
• crusso 11y ago
  but do you think they did it on purpose That's why you look at track record to assess behavior. If it happens once, you can forgive it as optimism or somesuch. If it's a pattern, you would then need to assume it's deliberate.