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by amelius 859 days ago
Apple should perhaps put aside their principles and learn how VHS became a success over Betamax ...
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That was largely a licensing thing.

People say that porn was what made VHS popular, but that was a secondary effect. Relatively cheap tech licensing meant there were more (and more affordable) VHS compatible devices out there, which got the content ball rolling (both published and home-movie content) with a fair chunk of initial momentum.

Vision Pro does nothing unique for them to license in that way – if VR video content is what someone wants a device like this for, they will use it to view existing VR video content that already plays on other devices.