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You clearly don't understand. If they are selling units to the military for more than COTS, that's illegal.

Let me provide the real facts, instead of your baseless speculations:

Microsoft and Magic Leap were competing on a Army contract. Microsoft won. The contract is $480 million for 100k units. That's $4800 per unit. 4 figures, not 5. The Hololens 1 costed $5000/unit COTS.

Magic Leap's cost proposal couldn't have been far off.

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If Magic Leaps most expensive product is ~$3,300... Why didn't they win the contract over Microsoft's $4,800 product? B/c Magic Leaps contract for selling to the DOD was higher than that the products listed on their site.

That's why the military ends up buying hammers for $1000 when you could pick up a higher quality one for $10 from your local hardware store.

> Why didn't they win the contract over Microsoft's $4,800 product?

You are showing your ignorance again: the DoD doesn't make decisions like these based on monetary value alone. Technical merit was likely the deciding factor.

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