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Don’t seem entirely comparable in that both watches and iem were legitimate markets to which Apple brought an innovative products while AR and VR headsets are
by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Don’t seem entirely comparable in that both watches and iem were legitimate markets to which Apple brought an innovative products while AR and VR headsets are a notoriously difficult market where plenty of products have already tried and failed to make money.
If this succeed, to me it will be more akin to what the iPad did than to what the watch did.
It’s also extremely expensive. I’m curious to see how Apple will market it. We will see.
- qwytw 3y ago> It’s also extremely expensive I assume it's more of a prototype targeted mainly at developers and enthusiasts at this point. They're probably betting that by the time they can decrease the price significantly somebody would've figured out what can you actually do with this thing.
- dmarcos 3y agoYeah. Apple enters categories that already have product-market fit. It outsources market research to first movers. VR has only significant traction for a handful of games. iPad is indeed an exception while watches and fitness trackers were popular and a growing market before Apple entered.
- storkhm 3y agoI think this will be quite successfully marketed as a status symbol. Obviously, it was intentional to create a scenario that there are viral videos of people gasping at the price reveal. I do think this is a revolutionary day but in a totally dystopian way. I suspect this is the start of where the tech innovations are more and more not going to be targeted at the mass market. The mass market is financially tapped out. The future is what Bernard Arnault and his 200 billion dollars figured out a long time ago. As AI starts to make society more and more unequal the money will be more and more in the high end luxury products. Everyone else can eat cake.