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Apple Glasses, if they ever come to fruition, would be a textbook play for Apple. As with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and even ARM laptops, they weren’
by axg11 5y ago
Apple Glasses, if they ever come to fruition, would be a textbook play for Apple.
As with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and even ARM laptops, they weren’t the first in the market in terms of technology but they were the first to make a really great user experience. The HN crowd hates Apple’s closed ecosystem but when it comes to all of these products, the closed ecosystem was a selling point for the average unsavvy consumer.
- slownews45 5y agoYeah, it'll be interesting especially positioned against facebook's META / Oculus products. On HN folks trash apple (closed systems, supposedly phones don't hold value etc). Reality for most folks outside of HN, Apple is just far far more trusted. Facebook has a ton more users, but I'm not sure about trust levels (though we will see if that matters, for facebook so far they have done fine).
- rchaud 5y ago> the closed ecosystem was a selling point for the average unsavvy consumer. That assumes that consumers had the choice of an "open" app ecosystem to begin with. Windows Phone, PalmOS, BlackberryOS, Symbian and Android all had closed app stores with zero interoperability.