It's for rich people, just like the first iPhone was. C-level executives will be impressed, but they're idiots who have way more decision making power than they have critical thinking skills.
Yep, those fools who bought into the iPhone early on. It was obvious the iPhone would never amount to anything. barfo
It seems obvious in retrospect but that first iPhone was... not even 33% of what even the 3G was, let alone the 4 or 4S where things really picked up, and it was *fucking expensive*. It's easy to say "oh yeah the iPhone was always going to be huge" but like, it was underpowered and expensive, and didn't seem that useful yet. But, it was designed for rich people, and once the lower-cost, better version came out later, it was something. I am absolutely not saying this will fail; I'm saying they're using the same playbook, that's all.
Ok, so we're clear... you're comparing the utility of having a tiny computer in your pocket to the utility of wearing some ski goggles? I think eventually the technology will advance to the point where it's functionally realistic, but this model looks stupid. But there's really two different things. This seems more like augmented reality, whereas oculus is VR. I don't like that they're trying to combine them. I would wear augmented reality glasses if they were roughly the same size as my actual glasses. If I wanted VR, I would want something that completely changes my surroundings. I don't know what the technology is going to need to hit before that's really possible. The way that VR has been portrayed in the movies is someone feeling like they're really there. Not sure how you go about making that possible without jacking directly into the computer
I was mostly just having fun, but seriously that's how most tech launches work. The early, buggy, large/heavy/ugly/slow version is sold to early adopters who have the money, time, and interest to put up with a few warts because they see some potential. Then, if development proceeds, better cheaper faster prettier versions come out that appeal to more people. barfo
I don't know what you do or don't know - but your original comment suggested that you thought that early adopters of tech are idiots. Maybe I misunderstood, though. barfo
Neither Apple nor any other phone manufacturer put a gun to anyone's head to make them buy their phones, regardless of whether they were rich or not.
EDIT: I'm operating on three hours sleep, so I'll bow out of this conversation for now and accept you're right and I'm wrong.
The forum rules say that we have to make at least another 1,329 posts on this subject before we are allowed to drop it. And if no one but you and I is interested, then the required number of posts triples. barfo
iPhone wasn't interesting to me until it was hacked and you could customize it. But by then Android was nearly available so I never considered an iPhone. I hate walled gardens.
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