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> My thing is, no matter what it is, it's a solution without a problem.

I don't know what this Apple headset is, but a theoretical headset can solve the problem of phones. In 15 years cellphones will be replaced by a wearable closer to a Ran-Ban Story than a Oculus Rift. The market can support a cellphone replacement wearable at a cost equal to and possibly more expensive than flagship cellphones ($1400+).

The Problem of Cellphones:

1. Has to be carried around. Glasses are much more natural, with a longer history in our culture.

2. Draws the gaze/attention away. Maybe we've gotten use to this, but its actually a huge problem.

3. High friction of notifications. Was that buzz in my pocket important? I have to spend ten seconds finding out.

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First you have to figure out how to break laws of physics it seems: battery, cpu, gpu, ram all need to go somewhere

Same issue when the first smartphones were developed: how do you fit a camera, phone, PC, GPS, etc. into a single device. It's just a matter of time until it gets figured out

It wasn't as big of an issue. And there's a limit on how small you can go, especially with batteries.

It's not "just a matter of time".

> It wasn't as big of an issue

Clearly you weren't around when cellphones came out. They were seen as borderline miraculous devices, even if they were huge. The first phone weighted 4 and a half pounds! Even at that size, people didn't believe it was possible. Remember, that pre-dates personal computers. No laptops existed.

It was a big deal and required newer technology and even advances in mathematics (for the cellphone signal processing).

We can make them tiny now. So tiny, in fact, that you can have tiny spy devices which are nonetheless able to talk to cell towers.

Sure, we can only make battery so small until they can't store much in terms of useful energy. But that also depends on how much power the devices require. An Apple Watch was an impossibility until not too long ago. Not just because of battery size, but also because of power draw (specially from screens). Have you seen how small an Apple Watch battery is? And that powers quite a bit of compute (an Apple Watch equals to about 2 Cray supercomputers from 1985, around 3 GigaFLOPS).

It is a matter of time.

> Clearly you weren't around when cellphones came out.

Dude. I'm 42

> And that powers quite a bit of compute

On a tiny screen, mostly idle, with most complex things driven by phone.

You want a continuous compute with a large projected screen on your face.

Except people found don’t like wearing glasses all the time. Source: I wear contacts

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