Comment by zmmmmm
3 years ago
> Well fire the marketing departments of all those other companies
Yes. Meta has been awful at it.
> You can be salty if you want
Unfortunate that you turn to that type of sentiment here. It sours otherwise interesting discussion.
> Palmer Lucky came out and said this thing is "so good" last week
You should definitely understand his history before taking what he says at face value. But nobody is saying this isn't good. It's really good. In fact it's great. But it's not surprising. It's just putting together the best quality of things we've already seen across multiple other products at a very high price.
So, like the iPhone did then? I’m not suggesting this will be a repeat, but I do remember similar commentary. VR has felt like a bunch of tech demo’s (you can see the potential, but no one’s managed to put it all together). I’m interested to see if Apple can make that ‘step change’ as they did with phones.
> like the iPhone did then?
To be fair, only one other phone had a capacitive touchscreen, and Apple provided the first OS that could really leverage it. The situation between Apple Vision and the numerous long-running incumbents with similar technology is very different to the unveiling of the iPhone.
>You should definitely understand his history before taking what he says at face value
Do you mean don't trust what he says about technology because of his political views?