{"id":23216,"date":"2018-10-26T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T20:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23216"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T20:27:04","slug":"the-problem-with-facebook-and-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/the-problem-with-facebook-and-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2018\/the-problem-with-virtual-reality\/\">Ben Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2018\/the-problem-with-virtual-reality\/\">\n<p>Anything made by Facebook is necessarily biased towards being accessible by everyone, which is a problem when creating a new market. Before technology is mature integrated products advance more rapidly, and can be sold at a premium; it follows that market makers are more likely to have hardware-based business models that segment the market, not service-based ones that try and reach everyone.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, it is hard to not feel optimistic about Apple&rsquo;s chances at eventually surpassing Oculus and everyone else. The best way to think about Apple has always been as a personal computer company; the only difference over time is that computers have grown ever more personal, moving from the desk to the lap to the pocket and today to the wrist (and ears). The face is a logical next step, and no company has proven itself better at the sort of hardware engineering necessary to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Critically, Apple also has the right business model: it can sell barely good-enough devices at a premium to a userbase that will buy simply because it is from Apple, and from there figure out a use case without the need to reach everyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Thompson: Anything made by Facebook is necessarily biased towards being accessible by everyone, which is a problem when creating a new market. Before technology is mature integrated products advance more rapidly, and can be sold at a premium; it follows that market makers are more likely to have hardware-based business models that segment the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-26T20:27:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"a286fab6-e92d-4952-a243-ccd8a6109042","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-26T20:27:07Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aoob6tuktSVKiQ8zYphCQQg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,101,25,1749],"class_list":["post-23216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-virtual-reality-vr"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23217,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23216\/revisions\/23217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}