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A lot of the articles so far are speculating it's mostly a technology demonstrator, or close to a dev kit.

Everyone seems to agree it's mighty impressive, but not quite there yet.

Gen 2 or Gen 3 will surely be cheaper, lighter and better, and somewhere along there I'm betting we'll see iPhone levels of adoption.

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Gen 1 iPad was a bit meh. Thick, heavy, didn’t do much. Kinda just a tech demo for a large very-responsive touchscreen device.

Gen 2 was so perfect that they sold it for years and years, and launched a related product line based on its platform (the Mini).

Same story for the iPod, same story for the MacBook Air, same story for the iPhone.

I think we'll see the same story play out once there are a few "killer" apps for it, and some of the features are refined (pass through sharpness, for example), and it gets a bit cheaper.

iPod gen 1 was awesome.

I agree, but with Firewire only and no Windows support, it was not a big seller.

Yes, I even remember everybody saying that tablets will never be used because of the gorilla arm (?) effect, that you can't hold your hand long time up. But now I see a young generation using exclusively tablets. Also the first iPhone, was looked at strangely. I remember being ashamed of using one. Internet was slow. We will know only in hindsight. I have no idea about the future of VR. I see the use-cases, but let's see.

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