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Re:Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook by lovecg on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:32PM (#30188709)
Here’s the thing though. I remember when the iPhone came out. The web browser experience was a horrible low resolution experience; it was slow, clunky, and you had to charge it every day. Yet none of it mattered - almost overnight everyone became glued to their phones. It didn’t need hyping up like “just wait for 4k to come out and then it will really take off” - people wanted it despite all the original flaws. Same with original game consoles. I don’t know, I just don’t see it.
Re:Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook by desiarnezjr on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:24AM (#30190044)
The original iPhone was also better than anything else mobile at the time though. Much better.

As clunky an experience you describe, the rest were far far worse.

VR is a cool niche experience, but the friction is still far too high for me. I wear glasses, and it needs to be only slightly more friction than that. Whether AR or VR, I don't much even care, as software experiences will adapt to the hardware at some point.