You could just as easily have said that smartphones were pointless in 2008, since they were too expensive, took way more effort to do simple things with and had

You could just as easily have said that smartphones were pointless in 2008, since they were too expensive, took way more effort to do simple things with and had no battery. I prefer a bigger screen with a real keyboard and os, but many people don't and industries like mp3 players, point-and-shoot camera makers and even those who sold ring tones are essentially gone. Alarm clock makers must have seen their sales decline rapidly. On the other hand, entire new industries have started to make apps. I have tried an occulus for minecraft and even though that was more than ten years ago I knew that that experience was different. I had jumped around in minecraft a lot, but this was the first time I got the same feeling in my stomach I would have had if I had been standing on the edge of that cliff. Even though it was all minecraft graphics and totally not real, it felt more real in away that no non-vr game can feel. I don't know if the metaverse is the next big thing, and I hope that facebook doesn't own it, but dismissing things like toys are _exactly_ what happened to all the other things we take for granted. Microcomputers were once dismissed as toys. They couldn't be used for real work, or run a real os. Look at where we are now.