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by Zemtomo 1111 days ago
Even if it is not a success in any business context of meta, they still sold millions of it.

Economy of scale is definitely a thing here.

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hmm, I didn't realize they'd sold around 20 million of these things

You aren't going to get iPhone/Samsung Galaxy-level scale effects out of that kind of volume, but it's enough that they might be able to break even within 50% over public BOM estimates

Yes it surprises me too.

And it even makes it weirder to me that I never felt seeing or hearing much about those headsets. Are they all sleeping in some boxes put away?