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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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