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while I share the same sentiment, it is hard if not impossible, if gamers became permanently attached to VR/AR tech and then try to bring everyone else onboard.
by alliao 3y ago
while I share the same sentiment, it is hard if not impossible, if gamers became permanently attached to VR/AR tech and then try to bring everyone else onboard.
that's why apple went in with high prices first, got to make it look sexy/cool/elusive while the tech matures, then only release to general public at affordable prices when it's 99% there; like macbook air.
- asdff 3y agoIf anything that sort of thing backfired with the plummeting demand for the mac line after the the ungodly expensive mac pro caster wheels and such.
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- mackwell 3y agoI’m pretty sure that Mac sales have been doing just fine since the release of the M1.
- asdff 3y agoHard to say if that was M1 effect or remote worker pandemic buying effect. In either case mac sales since last year are down 40%.
- pzo 3y agoIt's because a lot of people moved to m1 after waiting years for transition to something new because of crappy butterfly keyboards for many generations, lack of innovation or regression (no functional keys, no Magsafe, no Hdmi, no minisd, still needed usb-a) After lot of people bought m1 there was not similar significant improvement with m2 - and considering they could buy discounted m1