Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AR Glasses to Be Its 'iPhone Moment'

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This just may be the greatest Macrumors post. Ever.

Feel free to copy whenever “LOL” just doesn’t cut it.

 

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I don’t understand the IMMENSE appeal for AR. I have seen way more people hyped up for AR than I have ever seen for any movie/game/video card/whatever. It seems everybody is talking about AR and Metaverse and people are “desperately waiting” for Apple’s AR.

I don’t see that at all. I see tech journalists and pundits, and manufacturers, raving about AR. I see a grand total of zero everyday people saying “I wish I could do this thing that AR would allow me to do! Why isn’t this AR thing here yet so I can do it?”

Compare that with “if only I had a phone in my pocket”, “if only the phone in my pocket could email”, “if only I could surf the web with the phone in my pocket”, “if only my phone had GPS”, “if only I could pay with my phone”…

I see no “if only…” use case for AR. Compare to Apple Watch. At launch, we didn’t know what to do with it, other than be a fitness tracker. So we thought up all sorts of use cases that never caught on. Apple watch is succesful, because it is by far the best fitness tracker for ordinary people. Not because of all the other obscure use cases. It has a baseline use case. iPhone also had a baseline use case - “a phone, an iPod, an internet communication device”, and evolved from there.

What is AR’s “baseline use case”?

 

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Meta stock jumps nearly 20% despite mixed results

Meta's first earnings of 2022 may have largely fallen short of expectations, but that hasn't really dampened the enthusiasm of its investors.

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That is thanks to me buying them all.

 

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Mark Zuckerberg got $11 billion richer today

Nearly two months after losing his spot among the world's 10 richest rich people, Mark Zuckerberg is clawing his way back.

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Very good.