It’s obvious by some of the knee-jerk comments from people on this very story, plenty already have internet access.

Speaking from direct experience, government-subsidized services like this are big cash cows. The telecoms benefits both ways: federal funds to help build out the infrastructure and ongoing government-subsidized monthly income. It’s a no-brainer win-win for them. Why would they ever let that opportunity pass them up??

What???

Speaking from direct experience, government-subsidized services like this are big cash cows. The telecoms benefits both ways: federal funds to help build out the infrastructure and ongoing government-subsidized monthly income. It’s a no-brainer win-win for them. Why would they ever let that opportunity pass them up??

As George Carlin said, “If you’re pre-born, you’re ok. If you’re preschool, your ***ked”.

How about all the things you could by for the price of a Tesla X, or Corvette, or some other luxury product easily substituted for a more economical option?

I think it’s odd that your argument is built on the idea that this is largely a commercial-focused product, when it seems, like most Apple products and services, to be a consumer-focused product. Yes it’s expensive, but being expensive doesn’t negate something from being for consumers. There are endless examples of…

I think you need to think back to the iphone launch and reconsider. The first iphone did very little compared with smartphones today. It didn’t even have apps outside the handful of Apple apps. The iPad was only better because it was built on the progress of the iphone.

That’s typical: put out the high margin product first to show how amazing it is and pay off all of the upfront development costs first, then put out a stripped down version later. If people could get the lower cost lower margin one first, they wouldn’t be as interested in buying a higher priced model.

From the presentation it doesn’t seem like Apple is positioning this as a gaming platform. Instead it’s a general computing platform that can also do gaming. It’s like comparing a standard PC to a dedicated gaming system.

If it were possible to simply adjust the display for glasses prescriptions, wouldn’t all VR headsets be doing that already? I don’t wear glasses, but my understand is they adjust for the shape of your eye’s lens to see things properly. I don’t think changing anything about the display will do that.

I’m not super-knowledgeable about VR headsets, but from what I’ve seen the vast majority of existing VR headsets are for gaming, entertainment and meta-verse. It seems like Apple is positioning this first and foremost as a wearable computing device that is more or less a replacement or companion to existing computing…

Every operating system is it’s own unique operating system, so that’s kind of a non-statement. You can’t take a windows application and run it on Android. But while Apple does have multiple operating systems for their devices, they make them look and function very much the same so the cross use by the customer is easy…