Put all the compute and battery into a celtic torque around your neck and light weight raybans with full immersion on your face for a $1000 package and they'll capture the market.
Whoever releases a pair of non-clunky glasses with eight hour battery that can do sufficient AR for under a thousand bucks will have the iphone moment and own the world. Looks like a race between Meta and Apple. Unless Microsoft has something sneaky in the works.
At the iphone moment most people used cell phones and the iphone was just a better one. With vr/ar it's a bit niche. I don't know how many people would want one even if it was cheap and good. Looking up the stats a lot have been sold but I'm not sure they get used much. We had a Quest 2 knocking around the flat which I didn't use and I did the vision pro demo which was cool but not sure I'd have used one much if they gave me one.
I used a nosql database (Cosmosdb) when I should have used a relational database. The Azure cost plus the lost time in transitioning to SQL plus the cost involved in the implementation ran into embarrasingly debilitating six figures.
I was on a savings goal to get a deposit to buy a house to be able to raise my family. I worked hard for the past few years. Then the house prices went out of reach, I got hit with a massive tax bill, school and daycare fees skyrocketing, power prices going higher, rent increasing 10%-15% until now there's barely anything left. I've given up. I don't work with any motivation now I just do the bare minimum. What's the point in working hard when government and landlords take all your money?
If your partner has adult ADHD separating finances save a ton of stress.
Maybe happy couples with aligned spending and lifestyle expectations end up joining their accounts as an outcome. Rather than joining accounts make you happy
This is what we do also. Monster PR's get glancing reviews and are risky and diruptive to everyone else's feature branches when they merge latest. So the smaller the better. Quicker integrations. Less mess. Less risk.
I wonder if it’s actually the screens themselves, or the disengagement of the parent where screens fill the void?
Did TV do the same thing two decades ago?
TV was a lot more boring than the Internet. Even most 80s and 90s cable didn’t have so many channels that you could keep thinking that if you watched the schedule scroll by one more time you’d find something amazing, let alone OTA TV. If you wanted a movie you hadn’t already watched ten times, you had to drive somewhere. That kind of thing.
[edit] actually boring’s not right—it was just easier to know whether there was anything you wanted to watch on. With the Internet the answer is always “yes”, you just may not have found it yet.
