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I’m hoping I’ll be lucky enough to be able to buy one of these when it first comes out. I’ll have my finger right in the buy now button. But likely there won’t be enough to go around and there will be others who tapped a small fraction of a second before me. Oh well, we’ll see.

ive tried some high end industrial models. They all cost a lot more than this one. They’re pretty good, but are tethered to a computer. I’ve did spit some problems with them such as resolution that was almost, but not quite high enough. Field of view that was adequate, but not great. Some stuttering, etc. all were notably heavier than a pound. But I really don’t consider weight to be a major issue as long as it’s not over two pounds. I had a couple of dual eye infra red head units for our darkrooms. These weighed slightly over two pounds, also with batteries in the pocket, or on a waistband. The batteries being extra weight and lasting about an hour.  Most of that weight was forward of your face. Not very comfortable, but you get used to it. There are lots of head mounted equipment in use in various industries that are worn for hours at a time that are heavy. They’re necessary to use, and again, you get used to it. Some competitors are listed at about one and a quarter to one and a half pounds. If the AVP is really a pound, that a lot lighter.

waveparticle said:

"There's been a decoupling between what's happening in the economy and consumers buying phones," 

The decoupling is caused by US government trying to decouple China from the world. 

No, not really. If anything, it’s China that’s been doing that by their actions. At any rate, it’s the worldwide high inflation rate that’s been at the center of all of this. But anaerobic e sales, as you can see from the chart gave been dropping for years. A major reason given is that the worldwide market is saturated. People are go,ding on to phones, tablets, comluters, etc. for a longer time.

I have a bunch of different lenses for my iPhones. Over the years I’ve bought Zeiss and other brands. For a number of reasons, while the magnification, both plus and minus, works as advertised, the quality is always less than the built-in lenses. The fact is that these are at best, moderate quality. They can never improve the quality, just lower it. It’s similar to a converter that sits behind a lens. The resulting quality is always worse. Front mounted lenses are the same. 

designr said:

I recently read an article (that I cannot find) about how Apple spent a boatload of money on machines to be able to do the (extremely) precise (and unique) springs and locking system. The article made the case of how it ended up being worth it given the $$$ Apple made from the interchangeable bands. Perhaps there are reasons to move on. And we know that Apple loves magnets. And I can imagine Apple finding a way to make the band attachment system even more elegant. But, to me, all that adds up to a fair amount of skepticism about a change in this. Maybe.

I don’t like magnets because I have metal shops and do grinding. That metal powder gets everywhere. I always wear my Apple watch in the shop and no matter what, it’s been fine. But with a magnetic attachment, I shudder to think how much of that powder will get in there. I already have a problem with my iPad with the edges, in the case, getting full of metal powder. So much powder that you can see each magnet, and it won’t all come off, no matter how I clean it. It does come off the iPad, just not the case.

Actually, the “bump” this year is thought to be the biggest jump in three generations. I’m not just talking about the SoC, but for the entire phone, camera, SoC, screen, etc.