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iPhone was an obvious win as they were presenting it. Apple Watch was pretty mid, but people like watches and fitness bands, so it seemed to gain some traction
by ActionHank 3y ago
iPhone was an obvious win as they were presenting it.
Apple Watch was pretty mid, but people like watches and fitness bands, so it seemed to gain some traction.
These goggles required so much tech and research and also have a massive price tag for what is realistically a novelty and possibly small evolution over current work flows. It doesn’t feel like it will be bigger than Apple Watch.
- cj 3y agoI think labeling Apple Watch as “mid” is a bit of an understatement.
- peddling-brink 3y agoWhen it was first released, it was not as good as the existing competitors, from my POV anyway. I had a moto 360 gen 1 which was great. The gen 1 iwatch wasn't even water proof.
- al_borland 3y agoThe iPhone was an obvious win for people who wanted an Apple phone. There were many critics who thought the iPhone was over priced and lacking features. Steve Ballmer was famously in that group.
- jojobas 3y agoIphone was filling an existing niche that others did poorly, at a comparable price. And it turned out that the niche was in huge demand - everybody likes reading the news and chatting with friends on the go. There were plenty of phones out there that could browse, email, take pictures etc, they just sucked and iphone sucked way less. It remains to be seen whether the current goggles just suck or the whole concept is for geeks only (even with the geeks that own some kind of vr googles only 10% use them weekly or more often).
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