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      9 months ago

      A “decent battery” is bigger and more weight to carry around that plenty of use cases don’t want or benefit from. It’s not small for cost reasons. It’s because it’s a worse device if you force it to be huge.

      The price is high, but only if you ignore how much tech is in it. A lesser but close dumb display from anyone else is thousands in its own.

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        9 months ago

        There isn’t a single use case that wouldn’t improve with a longer lifespan of the device.

        It is nothing but Apple marketing bullshit to claim people want a small battery, and nothing but Apple greed to increase the profit by using worse components.

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          9 months ago

          When that lifespan is at the cost of meaningful extra bulk you have to carry around, there are plenty.

          It’s not saving them money. It’s because being required to carry a giant battery no matter what you want to do is a significantly worse product.

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          9 months ago

          Don’t buy it if you don’t want AR.

          But it’s beyond idiotic to trash the first device on the market actually capable of functional AR because you personally don’t care about the tech people have been waiting decades for.