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    1011 months ago

    When iPhone was released App Store didn’t even exist. A smartphone without apps is just a phone and VR glasses without apps are just a 360 degree monitor you wear on your face. I think Apple’s reasoning here is to provide the hardware and see what people do with it.

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      411 months ago

      Can confirm, I had an Apple Newton. Hardware with no purpose is just hardware. So far, this seems like it’s going where every VR headset goes. It’s a solution looking for a problem.

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      311 months ago

      I think Apple’s reasoning here is to provide the hardware and see what people do with it.

      for sure, and in the rest of the tech world, we call these devkits, not finished products. Apple is trying to convince rando non-dev apple fanboys to pay $3500 for the privilege of playing with devkits. And in many ways, it’s a dead end, especially on input. what a shit show.

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      111 months ago

      Yeah the iPhone was successful at launch because it was a sleek blackberry and had iPod like capabilities. But it didn’t blow up until the App Store came out. I expect this product to do the same, and in the same way, companies to release competitive products with similar capabilities in a feature war until the newest releases are mostly talking about resolution and processor speed instead of new features