<story><title>Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-26/apple-reality-headset-details-pro-features-top-100-meeting-watch-like-start-lfpgdgdb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Where was this persistent iteration and overnight success with Homepod, Airpower, butterfly keyboards, touchbar, force touch, MobileMe, Ping?&lt;p&gt;Apple has had its share of failures like any other company, and kills products like any other company. There is plenty of precedence for their AR headset to just fizzle out.</text></item><item><author>voisin</author><text>Initial product will be weak, just like the original iPhone (no App Store, slow, poor battery life, etc) and Apple Watch (no development, no health tracking, small screen, poor battery life).&lt;p&gt;The thing about Apple is not to judge based on v.1 but to watch the iteration. They are the most persistent company in the world. Compare to Google which seems to have ADHD. Apple will iterate and iterate and in 5 years we’ll all be shocked that it is an “overnight success” and undisputed market leader with an unassailable ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;If their stock tanks after the release I’ll see it as a good buying opportunity!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagmx</author><text>HomePod&lt;p&gt;Getting more successful with the Mini. The OG Homepod was a very V1 product like the person you replied to was saying&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appleinsider.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;homepod-mini-was-the-single-best-selling-smart-speaker-in-q1-2022&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appleinsider.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;22&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;homepod-mini-was-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;AirPower: never released&lt;p&gt;Butterfly keyboards&amp;#x2F;Touch Bar&amp;#x2F;force touch: all features. The person you’re replying to is talking about product lines. You might as well list cd&amp;#x2F;devs drives and FireWire as well because things come and go.&lt;p&gt;MobileMe: The majority of MobileMe features still exist under iCloud so I’m not sure what you’re getting at there.&lt;p&gt;Ping: this was always just a feature for iTunes and not much more. It wasn’t a product in and of itself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-26/apple-reality-headset-details-pro-features-top-100-meeting-watch-like-start-lfpgdgdb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Where was this persistent iteration and overnight success with Homepod, Airpower, butterfly keyboards, touchbar, force touch, MobileMe, Ping?&lt;p&gt;Apple has had its share of failures like any other company, and kills products like any other company. There is plenty of precedence for their AR headset to just fizzle out.</text></item><item><author>voisin</author><text>Initial product will be weak, just like the original iPhone (no App Store, slow, poor battery life, etc) and Apple Watch (no development, no health tracking, small screen, poor battery life).&lt;p&gt;The thing about Apple is not to judge based on v.1 but to watch the iteration. They are the most persistent company in the world. Compare to Google which seems to have ADHD. Apple will iterate and iterate and in 5 years we’ll all be shocked that it is an “overnight success” and undisputed market leader with an unassailable ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;If their stock tanks after the release I’ll see it as a good buying opportunity!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spike021</author><text>Interestingly enough to me, all the things you mentioned are &amp;quot;accessories&amp;quot;. Not full-fledged products (arguably Ping was right around when social media like MySpace&amp;#x2F;Facebook really were going full-steam so I think Apple was just trying it out).&lt;p&gt;The first-class products have all been launched like the parent comment said, along with iterations that build upon them.&lt;p&gt;So to me it seems Apple is still putting some level of priority on its main products and just less so on accessories.</text></comment>