• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This comment on the original article is almost exactly what I was going to say here

    Whose expectations? Couldn’t have been mine as I expected very few buyers due to the high price and no compelling use case. (Source: sw1tcher)

    Next headline: “People cut back on discretionary spending in the face of rising cost-of-living unaffordability crisis. Sales down for $3,499.99 pair of goggles and caviar.”

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      5 months ago

      Apple’s, shareholder’s… Economists doing 8 balls of their secretaries chest. No body sane thought this was gonna sell like hot cakes.

      • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Yeah and to be fair 400-450k is still in the realm of $1.4bn in revenue. That’s pretty good for a new product in year 1 (and presumably the device is at least marginally profitable at the high price - if not it’s a gamble on the future). And sales like that for something that is basically an expensive proof of concept is pretty impressive.