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So far Apple has shown they can make low grade camera filters with AR. What do you think gives them an advantage over players like Microsoft Hololens + Holograp
by calciphus 7y ago
So far Apple has shown they can make low grade camera filters with AR. What do you think gives them an advantage over players like Microsoft Hololens + Holographic in the space?
- paulcole 7y agoApple made iPhone when everyone else was copying Blackberry. They get some optimism from me based on that alone.
- Arelius 7y agoYeah, but Blackberry was there and we knew exactly some things that people wanted smart phones for. Apple was able to refine it into the iPhone. Today, what's even the Blackberry of AR? Where not really even at the Newton of AR yet.
- paulcole 7y agoEven if that’s true, Apple’s the one that got there in the end with phones. That’s who I’ve got my money on until someone else proves me wrong.
- ericd 7y agoI think this is a little bit of hindsight optimism over it all being obvious. It really wasn’t. You wouldn’t classify the Hololens or Magic Leap as being at least the Newton of AR?
- Arelius 7y agoYeah, maybe the newton of AR. I guess it was the internet and communication that made smart phones important, not the rest of what was in the newton. In that sense, maybe hololens is exactally the Newton of AR.
- jnaina 7y agoHindsight is always 20/20.
- microtherion 7y agoBut the lesson many people took from Blackberry at the time was that a physical keyboard was indispensable…
- Arelius 7y agoYes, I think that's a key innovation that Apple made. But my point was blackberry was a proof of the problems that people wanted solve. iPhone's innovation was an interface one. It feels like now, everyone is trying to solve the interface problem (I'll concede, perhaps not as well as Apple) but we still don't really know what the problems and use-cases really look like yet.
- The_rationalist 7y agoWhat? IPhone 1 was a copy from the first smartphone which was from LG.