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Nah. That’s normal trading behavior following morning speculative spike.
Yes. It's actually still slightly positive for the day. But this product's success or failure will be measured over the long term. These are expensive and clunky devices as a category. Will this or its successors want to make enough people buy them to make the category worthwhile?
 
The tech looks amazing, but the app examples are basically identical to everything we've already seen with existing VR headsets. Still haven't seen a single novel use case.
 
I have a motion sickness now. Anyone feels the same? I don't even have thing thing on.
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The Apple-centric pundits are eating it up. Yet we still don’t have a reason why this product exists. It’s tech for the sake of it, for showing off, not for solving problems.


It IS impressive technology. Whether anyone wants to buy it is a different story. We'll see. If Angela Ahrendts or Jonny Ive were still around I'm sure they'd have paid more attention to the exterior design.
 
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How will it be worse? I've been waiting decades for a decent HMD with flying being the most obvious use case. 90% of travelers are just watching TV anyway, why not an imax sized TV, no hunching over a laptop, etc. Seems like it's better in every way
The seats aren't wide enough to account for flailing arms 😂 (But I agree it looked cool on the plane.)
 
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