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When Apple announced ARKit, this culturally geeky (not a tech) coworker of mine scoffed, saying Nintendo had something like that for the DS ages ago. That's exactly how geeks responded to the iPod with the infamous CmdrTaco post ("Lame") as a prime example.

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And mobile phones ate the dedicated players. Thus, lame.

It was a product of is time with one hit feature of huge space and decent battery life for that. At a significant markup.

Does ARKit have a killer feature at all? Even one, compared to competition?

But this is my point. Geeky people have a strong opinion about how much this or that implementation sucks or doesn't suck. No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones, or any other next big thing, so that makes AR look like it has half a chance to me.

> No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones

Have you seen any (online or offline) discussion about those? Of course people have strong opinions on them.

The thing is I didn't have to go into an AR community online to find opinions. Some guy at my work who isn't even a tech was giving me unsolicited snarky AR opinions.

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