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charlesn said:

9secondkox2 said:

I’m excited Apple has put the effort in, but I do wish they didn’t launch until they got the tech distilled into something much more livable. 

Worth remembering: 

The Macbook Air, despite the wow factor of Steve's envelope demo, was initially slammed as a rich person's "toy" -- too expensive, too slow, too limited in storage and battery life to be taken seriously as a "real" laptop. The tech caught up to the promise in later years and by then, Apple owned the market for ultralight laptops. 

The Apple Watch, when originally introduced, couldn't do much of anything beyond telling time on its own--for any real functionality, it had to be tethered to your iPhone, which had to be with you. Which begged the question: if I have my iPhone in my pocket, why do I need this watch? The "killer use case," lol, was that you wouldn't need to take your phone out of your pocket to check emails, messages, etc, if you were in a meeting. But the tech caught up to the promise, Apple Watch is now a completely independent device and it's killer use case--health tracking--wasn't even a thing at the time it was released. 

The lesson learned: the tech always catches up to initial deficiencies. What's important is to get it out there so you can define and own the market for that device. I have no doubt that Vision Pro will one day--and probably A LOT sooner than we think--be a pair of fairly ordinary looking glasses.  I mean, c'mon--did you think we were close to seeing a pair of wireless headphones as tiny as Airpods until they burst on the scene? 

ALSO; with regard to Daniel's typically superb column, I had to pull out this quote:

They really feel like it should cost half as much, be half as big, and do a lot of things Apple never said it would. This is evergreen Apple criticism.

Truer words have never been written!