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> Right now I can't really see a killer app for AR

Something, something faster horses.

The fact that so many people don’t see any use for AR and that the people who think they do are so spectacularly wrong are what make me excited for AR.

I want to see what nobody has thought of yet and Apple is the only company that I think is capable of that.

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So far Apple has shown they can make low grade camera filters with AR. What do you think gives them an advantage over players like Microsoft Hololens + Holographic in the space?

Apple made iPhone when everyone else was copying Blackberry. They get some optimism from me based on that alone.

Yeah, but Blackberry was there and we knew exactly some things that people wanted smart phones for. Apple was able to refine it into the iPhone. Today, what's even the Blackberry of AR? Where not really even at the Newton of AR yet.

Even if that’s true, Apple’s the one that got there in the end with phones. That’s who I’ve got my money on until someone else proves me wrong.

I think this is a little bit of hindsight optimism over it all being obvious. It really wasn’t.

You wouldn’t classify the Hololens or Magic Leap as being at least the Newton of AR?

Yeah, maybe the newton of AR. I guess it was the internet and communication that made smart phones important, not the rest of what was in the newton. In that sense, maybe hololens is exactally the Newton of AR.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

But the lesson many people took from Blackberry at the time was that a physical keyboard was indispensable…

Yes, I think that's a key innovation that Apple made. But my point was blackberry was a proof of the problems that people wanted solve. iPhone's innovation was an interface one.

It feels like now, everyone is trying to solve the interface problem (I'll concede, perhaps not as well as Apple) but we still don't really know what the problems and use-cases really look like yet.

What? IPhone 1 was a copy from the first smartphone which was from LG.

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