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by babelchips 1105 days ago
Just like the market for tablets before the iPad and the market for smartwatches before the Apple Watch?
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Agreed. "There's no obvious market for X" could also mean "all versions of X have sucked so far".

I'm not a VR enthusiast—I don't own any headsets, and will probably not be buying this one—but this is a profoundly lazy article, and not one I'd take seriously as far as judging the merits of Vision.

Who is buying those, and what for? I'm genuinely curious.
I dont know but if you thinking there is no market, the numbers are telling a different story:

Apple made 9 billion in revenue in Q1 2023 from iPad.

I think that is a lot of market.

I believe you ;) I'm just curious about who it is, and what they buy them for.

I can mostly get my head around the iPad. My guess is that it's people who don't want (to get out / have) a laptop. In fact, this is the device the average person should probably have instead of a laptop.

The Apple Watch though? I can't fathom where these sales are coming from. It's been years, so it's no longer novelty of a new Apple product.

I can answer to my own reasoning. I have MacBook, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch.

- MacBook is my workhorse for work. When it retire this device will be the first to go. - IPad Pro used for all manner of media and content consumption, mainly personal use and because it’s cellular enabled and portable enough it tends to go with me when I need to do work in a “device light” manner. This device of all would be my favorite piece of tech I have used in a near 40 year career in tech. - IPhone is my phone, main audio player, occasionally used for browsing content consumption in a pinch. - Apple Watch is probably the one I could live without the easiest, but it’s handy for health tracking, paying, and this may sound ridiculous…but the biggest value I get from it is walking up to my MacBook and not having to log in or type in a password.