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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by criddell on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:24PM (#21725632)
Why not follow the model used by consoles and cell phones? Sell the hardware at a loss and take a 30% cut of software sales.
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by pvarangot on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:32PM (#21725699)
That won't work here, nobody would buy software for this thing because it's really underwhelming.
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by criddell on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:49PM (#21725855)
Doesn't that depend on how big of a loss they are willing to take? Say they started selling to developers for $1000 with the promise that the price to consumers would be $99 six months from now. I think that would ignite a lot of development.
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by redisman on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:20PM (#21727054)
That's like launching a game console with no games on launch day then. Even worse of a blunder from Magic Leap.
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Re:Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses by munk-a on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:33PM (#21725704)
This would be really sensible especially giving the funding they've been floated - that said maybe their debtors are coming home to roost and they've been given pressure to avoid setting any more money on fire.
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