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Apple will continue to charge outrageous amounts for its top end gear as long as there are people willing to hand over their cash.  Count me out, I don’t need the status symbol to be happy.

And it isn’t even on the market until NEXT year. Maybe that’s why they bumped the price- they expect more inflation and want to preserve their profit forecasts from the $3000 rumor.
As others have said, it will take several years before this is possibly a mass consumer success- probably along the lines of appleWatch - other companies could come along and try to deliver the most useful aspects of a headset (at a more reasonable price) but given Metas lackluster effort, it doesn’t seem likely- so time is on Apple’s side to improve with future evolution.

And I thought $3000 would have been a galling amount for this. But Apple managed to supersize even that. The vignettes of interaction with family is just creepy. In a work / lab environment this would be more palatable. So, for business this can be a success but I wouldn’t want to see this being a tremendous consumer success. FFS we’re already so disconnected/disassociated- the EyeSight feature does not fix this - oh, and the synthesized persona for FaceTime? Impressive (and I understand they needed a solution for that problem) but that’s super creepy, too. I don’t think you solve that problem until you use your phone with continuity camera (like for Apple TV - very cool) and this headset becomes more like sunglasses (maybe this never happens)

I would think that Apple is going to introduce this thing with Craig Federighi appearing with some oversized headset that he then peals off to reveal the slim profile of Apple’s offering.
I’ll be so sad if this isn’t the case.

I went in with mild expectations but it was soon dashed. Feels a bit too much like they are riding the Ted Lasso formula  — just a new cast of characters whose story arcs seem quite obvious to me. But that’s just me - if others are enjoying it, carry on.