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This is my feeling too - I just don't see an immediate usecase for such a device outside of a select few niches… As usual, Apple is playing the long game. We s
by alwillis 3y ago
This is my feeling too - I just don't see an immediate usecase for such a device outside of a select few niches…
As usual, Apple is playing the long game. We should remember that when the iPhone was announced in 2007, Steve Jobs set the goal to get 1% of the cell phone market.
In 2007, there was no App Store and the only native apps were what came installed on the device.
Apple is laying the groundwork for the future. They’ll sell enough for it to meaningful while the rest of the ecosystem comes together.
- mdanger007 3y agoStart with first principles in hardware. We are primarily visual creatures secondly we are linguistic. If the io for a hardware device were ideal would it not serve these two functions?
- Hamuko 3y agoBut the cell phone market was a pretty well-established and sizable market. The AR/VR market is not.
- alwillis 3y ago> But the cell phone market was a pretty well-established and sizable market. The AR/VR market is not. I guess that's one way to look at it. But compared to what was popular when the iPhone was released (Blackberry, Treo, Nokia), it was the iPhone that jumpstarted what became the modern smartphone market we see today. Apple is uniquely positioned to usher in the modern AR/VR era, especially if it's true that iOS apps will run in on the headset. Nobody is better than Apple at capturing the imagination of developers.