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I'm not remotely sure about your extrapolation there. The 6s came out when everyone already had a smartphone. Likewise AirPods when most people had Bluetooth he

• onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago
  This is not a brand new product line. Similar to AirPods - the headset market has been around for a while now. There's ~12M VR headsets being sold per year already. As far back as 2019 - there were ~5M VR headsets being sold per year.
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  • musictubes 3y ago
    “Spatial Computing” is a new product category. Apple is not marketing this as a VR headset or gaming device. It certainly is a new product category for Apple in any case. I’m having flashbacks to iPhone and BlackBerry comparisons. Sure, they were both “smartphones” but once the App Store came out the iPhone was clearly in a different category of device. The form factor isn’t nearly as important to defining what the product category is as what the device is used for and what problems it solves IMO. App Store policies and shenanigans will probably prevent the Vision Pro from overlapping too much with existing VR headsets use cases. Right now it isn’t clear that many people that like the Quest would buy a Vision Pro even if money wasn’t an issue. The use cases are that different. I think the reverse is true as well, there will be plenty of people that will be interested in the VP and not in VR headsets. If nothing else that points to market segmentation.
  • walthamstow 3y ago
    12m a year globally, is that all? I think many more smartphones were being sold when the 6s came out