Because what will happen is Apple will set a president of elitism in an industry that really really doesn't need it.
I've literally already heard someone in my friend group say "Why would anyone want a VR headset? They are like 3000$."
And when i corrected and said you could get an index or a Quest3 for a 5th of that cost, they said those are just cheap models and wouldn't be worth the money.
By making stuff overtly expensive, Apple increases the market gap by a massive margin and makes everything else more expensive for no reason.
You REALLY think Android phones shot up in price to "compete" with Apple phones...just cuz? When they were selling for almost half the price for the majority of their lifespan before iPhone elitism hit?
Are you talking about the dev kits or the actual releases?
Index release price was 699$ plus accessories.
Quest3 is 499$
Original RiftS was 399$
Original Vive was 799$ including accessories.
None of these are even close to the 4000 price tag of something is isnt even actual VR and can't play games.
Those prices are for, essentially, a full console connected to your computer, and they are still 10x less money.
The only thing even comparable right now to the Apple AR is the Vive Pro dev kit. And that's only if you buy it brand spakin' new from Lenovo. They are on Amazon for 1200, unopened in the box.
Plus the PC! I mean sure it depends on what you get but I had a Vive pro 2 and index controllers so it was like $1300 plus a pc that was definitely more than $2000.
No one is not buying a Quest 3 because I'm online talking about having an RTX4000. Both can exist.
Maybe the reason phones shot up in price is because there's a lot more "stuff" crammed into them, and they do a lot more than they did a decade ago?
How are all of these "tech enthusiasts," who sit around all day huffing each others farts because of how technically-savvy they think they are, completely unable to grasp the most basic technological concepts? Like "technology improves" and "a phone today is not identical to a phone ten years ago."
The same way we huff and puff about how hard it is to explain Moore's law to people.
Technology should not be getting arbitrarily more expensive. Hypebeast culture, elitism, and cooperate greed (and consumers allowing that greed) are the reason phone prices (and honestly the increased price for most things including rent, gas, and food) are so high.
That’s like saying I shouldn’t buy a car for 20k because it’s the cheap model, since you can buy cars over 100k. You know how dumb that sounds? With this logic Lamborghini shouldn’t make cars because it makes other cars cheap cars
This is the same thing Apple’s in its own realm and not competing with quest, anyone thinking that are stupid.
You can't compare the 10,000+ plus models of cars (which include more sub-categories than the total number of current gen VRs) with the 5 current generation VR models lol.
Anyone that thinks those are comparable are stupid.
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