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When Apple announced ARKit, this culturally geeky (not a tech) coworker of mine scoffed, saying Nintendo had something like that for the DS ages ago. That's exa
by povertyworld 7y ago
When Apple announced ARKit, this culturally geeky (not a tech) coworker of mine scoffed, saying Nintendo had something like that for the DS ages ago. That's exactly how geeks responded to the iPod with the infamous CmdrTaco post ("Lame") as a prime example.
- AstralStorm 7y agoAnd mobile phones ate the dedicated players. Thus, lame. It was a product of is time with one hit feature of huge space and decent battery life for that. At a significant markup. Does ARKit have a killer feature at all? Even one, compared to competition?
- povertyworld 7y agoBut this is my point. Geeky people have a strong opinion about how much this or that implementation sucks or doesn't suck. No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones, or any other next big thing, so that makes AR look like it has half a chance to me.
- detaro 7y ago> No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones Have you seen any (online or offline) discussion about those? Of course people have strong opinions on them.
- povertyworld 7y agoThe thing is I didn't have to go into an AR community online to find opinions. Some guy at my work who isn't even a tech was giving me unsolicited snarky AR opinions.