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Jobs referred to early Apple TV as a "hobby". For years. Time enough for a nascent market to mature, for the technology to catch up with the ambitions. That's
by specialist 4y ago
Jobs referred to early Apple TV as a "hobby". For years. Time enough for a nascent market to mature, for the technology to catch up with the ambitions.
That's how Apple/Cook should refer to Apple VR/AR.
Under promise, over deliver.
Projecting 1m unit sales the first year is nutty. Sure, they might sell that many. And then what?
Also, the initial models should be over priced, specifically targeting sexy use cases. Ridiculously expensive, maximally awesome, hype building applications. Like telemedicine, protein folding, and walking tours of fictional settlements on Mars.
Let people imagine and build boutique applications for a couple years, normalize the emerging market, before introducing a consumer mass market model.
- illiarian 4y ago> Under promise, over deliver. But Apple TV still hasn't delivered, and its first version was released 16 years ago. It's still unusable for anything but the most basic tasks, and is a mess as a product: it fails as amedia hub, it fails as a smart device hub, it fails as a compute hub...
- Jcowell 4y agoDoes it? As a device I want to hook up to a TV to watch streaming services without worrying that my TV is sending snapshots to its manufacturer it works pretty well.