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Apple can afford to improve and cheapify this thing for a decade.
by BurningFrog 9mo ago
Apple can afford to improve and cheapify this thing for a decade.
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoThat’s sort of what they did with the Watch. It has incrementally improved, and gotten cheaper, to the point that I now see them everywhere. When they first came out, they were pretty expensive. Remember the $17,000 gold Watch (which is now obsolete)? The ceramic ones were over a couple of grand. But the dream of selling Watch apps seems to have died. I think most folks just use the built-in apps.
- yakkers 9mo agoThe $17,000 Apple Watch was a (rather silly) attempt to compete in the high end watch space. However, they also launched the base "Sport" model at US$349.
- wlesieutre 9mo agoNot really anything like the watch, the existence of a stupidly expensive "luxury" version doesn't change the fact that the normal one started at $350. I think the current rumor is that development of a cheaper XR headset has been shelved in favor of working on something to compete with Meta's AI glasses.