[agloeregrets]

"Current price" Seemed to be purely invented to move units. The hardware margins had to be very large negative numbers. They were losing $2.5B/Quarter for the last two years. To put it in context, the specs of a base Quest 2 are actually somewhat similar to Microsoft's $1000 Surface Pro X or a Galaxy S20 but adding the motion controllers and the specific ground-up custom OS.

[zlsa]

> specific ground-up custom OS

There are no doubt huge changes made, but Quest 2 runs Android underneath.

[Firmwarrior]

To be fair, this isn't like Amazon's "fire OS" where they just added a launcher app and randomly broke some APIs on accident. It's a pretty substantial addition to/departure from stock Android

[agloeregrets]

Sorry yeah absolutely, I intended to frame it as they have effectively thrown out pretty much all of the Android UI/UX along with building an app store from scratch.

[terafo]

They were building a custom OS for VR/AR, but development of it was slashed earlier this year.