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> Everyone thought I was crazy for thinking this thing would get no traction. I've yet to find someone who thought a $3500 headset would be a smash hit.
by kasperni 2y ago
> Everyone thought I was crazy for thinking this thing would get no traction.
I've yet to find someone who thought a $3500 headset would be a smash hit.
- mrguyorama 2y agoHN had fifty people in every thread swearing that nobody predicted the iPhone would be a success so we should all shut up and buy or else FOMO. It was constant and everywhere. Tens of posters who have apparently zero connection to the company Apple other than "They released the iPhone" as if they've never had a high profile flop, as if they've never had only okay sales of a product, as if they've never tried to change the world and failed miserably, as if Apple never misses. Because of a single damn product release. One time. At the crux of a phase change in the personal digital device world. Just, utterly divorced from reality. I feel like these posters are half of my company's management team.
- rchaud 2y agoNot to mention the old canard of "Apple doesn't do things first, it does things right", implying AVP success was inevitable, and the chattering classes were too dumb to see it.
- rchaud 2y agoRead some of the previous threads. There are hundreds of comments of people inventing use cases, that's how bad people want this to succeed. The problem is Apple's ecosystem for AVP is designed around consumer services like Apple TV, rather than the sci-fi fantasies of the average HN reader.