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You were an outlier buying a clone for that price, but you're right that Columbia, Compaq, AT&T/Olivetti and many others had clones for far less and if you were
by technofiend 2y ago
You were an outlier buying a clone for that price, but you're right that Columbia, Compaq, AT&T/Olivetti and many others had clones for far less and if you were willing to use something besides a DOS machine, there was Kaypro that bundled CP/M with an application suite and at times a printer.
The old joke was that the Lotus 123 predecessor Visicalc sold more Apples than Apple sold Visicalc. Now that was a killer app. IMHO there's no analogous reason or app to buy VR headsets in general much less the Vision Pro in specific.
- throw0101c 2y ago> IMHO there's no analogous reason or app to buy VR headsets in general much less the Vision Pro in specific. And until Visicalc there was no reason for most people to buy a (micro)computer. The only folks that bought them were (homebrew) tinkerers that couldn't afford minicomputers (PDPs) or mainframes, where there were "real" applications. But things eventually trickled down to micros and people found uses for them. The Vision Pro may simply be in the minicomputer stage of development.