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Re:Apple delays its mixed reality headset by two months, to ... by prawn on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:00PM (#34812154)
How skeptical though? This is a company with an extreme attention to detail, who've demonstrated expertise in compact, high quality, powerful devices. And they're bringing a product to market some time after Meta already has the (from all accounts very decent) Quest 2. I think they've got as good a chance as anyone.

But I don't think truckers and medical enterprise are really the target market. Those people might find a use for this product, but Apple focus their high-end products and advertising on trend leaders, media professionals, creative prosumers/aspirants.

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Re:Apple delays its mixed reality headset by two months, to ... by poulsbohemian on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:37PM (#34812603)
>How skeptical though?

Mostly, because at the moment, it isn't clear to me what, where, when the market for these headsets might be. And Apple, for all their innovation, tends to jump in when the demand has become somewhat clear. These headsets, at least as the world currently sees them, don't seem to have a clear use case that is at a mass market and price tag that makes sense.

>But I don't think truckers and medical enterprise are really the target market

I agree - it was my attempt to reach for some crowd that might actually have a motivation to buy a device.

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