So is that market the last $1 billion still buying physical? A graph was passed around showing sales are down from an $11 billion peak in 2009 nearly 20 years ago.
I wonder how much of that last billion is Switch. I assume physical sales are higher there. But I might be way off.
But I hate the shepherding to make an account, or use their Muse installer, etc. It takes effort to know you can skip those things. And their game is to have your average person not know they can skip those things, while supposedly letting nerds and power users stay happy.
Getting over the aesthetics hurdle is going to be so difficult for AR glasses.
Everyone keeps saying VR isn’t what people want, they want AR glasses.
But then the first AR glasses are not exceptionally thin and small. So it’s revealed that people were saying they actually wanted something seemingly impossible instead.
I have faith that the industry could get to “small enough” eventually. But I don’t know if the market will give them the runway they need to get there. Anyone paying attention knows what they are showing is a major improvement on previous AR devices in size and weight. But your average person looks at it and laughs at how big it is.
I wonder if the industry has the fortitude to keep pressing forward. Because if AR glasses did work as people dream they can, in the form factor they expect, then everyone will want them. Even if we have to set up strict laws around them.
Moderation is even more difficult when you are just a person hosting one node in the federated platform. Each node needs to take an active role. And as the volume of content/users goes up, the workload increases.
Moderation is a huge part of running any platform. Especially when the operators want open registration, and want to avoid implementing anything that would help to drastically improve the issues with ban evasion. (The strongest solutions are problematic.)
China isn’t allowed to use advanced expensive US models. And US nationals can’t afford advanced expensive US models so they want to use Chinese models.
So is that market the last $1 billion still buying physical? A graph was passed around showing sales are down from an $11 billion peak in 2009 nearly 20 years ago.
I wonder how much of that last billion is Switch. I assume physical sales are higher there. But I might be way off.