• @Macaroni_ninja
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    171 month ago

    It failed, no need to dance around the subject. It was a very expensive demo product, and nobody wants it.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 month ago

      I don’t see how this is a failure, because I don’t see this as a legitimate push for adoption.

      This was a device that cost as much as a used car, with no real pre release applications, and virtually no preemptive dev kits. The only thing I can see that as is an attempt to mass test a new device type with early adopters.

      • @Macaroni_ninja
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        71 month ago

        Every single review I saw said the same thing. Its amazing tech, with a big price tag and nobody knew who is it for. The magic wore off pretty quickly and nobody wanted to use it long term.

        Would a mass test have this kind of marketing though?

        • @[email protected]
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          61 month ago

          It’s Apple dude… who the fuck knows, lol.

          Also, I didn’t really see much marketing. But that may just be my pervasive Adblocking.

      • @dustyData
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        51 month ago

        There are ways of testing for these things that doesn’t involve millions of dollars in marketing events (they did flew a bunch of tech influencers to Cupertino) and millions more in manufacturing (factories are expensive as hell). Apple admitted themselves that the number of sales was even lower than their already limited expectations.

        • @AdrianTheFrog
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          21 month ago

          apple is worth trillions of dollars, a few million is nothing to them

          • @Macaroni_ninja
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            21 month ago

            A failure is a failure, no matter how small or big. Just because its Apple why brush it off as a happy little experiment?

            • @AdrianTheFrog
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              130 days ago

              Did they make money? obviously not.

              Will it help them make money in the future? nobody knows. Probably not as much as it could have, we’ll have to wait and see.