Facebook loses users for the first time

Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by bin_bash on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:09PM (#30195135)

s/VR/Smartphones/g and you could've logically written this in 2006 when people thought $200 was an obscene amount to pay for a phone.

I'm bullish on Oculus since I think they'll get the software and exclusives right (also I have one and I'm impressed by it) but I don't think Apple being an upmarket brand is going to slow them down at all.

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by GekkePrutser on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:46PM (#30200716)

Exactly, but $200 was a lot back then because the platform hadn't proven itself yet.

Tthe first iPhone cost $499, and they even dropped the price of the $599 iPhone after a few months to $399, in a pretty unprecedented move by Apple. The price was clearly too high for a market that had not yet proven its value. VR is in the same situation as the modern smartphone was back then.

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by bin_bash on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:57PM (#30200814)

IMO it was the 3G iPhone that was the one that mattered and that was only $199 with contract. The original iPhone was like a weird alpha prototype. There was no reason not to get the contract at the time because AT&T was the only company you could use an iPhone on anyways

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