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Foundation12a t1_ixxvwsx wrote

Reply to comment by rixtil41 in For anyone still believing that standalone VR/AR/MR will flourish and popularize in the 2020s, please watch this video and think again. by Quealdlor

Smartphones and laptops aren't outdated tech and even if they were you said you would have no choice because they will stop selling them.

Completely ridiculous.

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rixtil41 t1_ixxwuk6 wrote

Smartphones arent outdated yet. What what are your options when they stop selling them or supporting them ?

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Foundation12a t1_ixxzlsa wrote

Who exactly is "they"?

You can still buy everything from floppy disks to fax machines to pagers why would those devices which are infinitely less popular and useful than smartphones or laptops be purchasable decades after they're obsolete if "they" could stop selling them.

It is a totally ridiculous claim.

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rixtil41 t1_ixy01yx wrote

They are profitable on a small scale. If Samsung decides to replace all there phones with pagers and fax machine's they would lose a lot of money.

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Foundation12a t1_ixy093h wrote

That has nothing to do with what I asked.

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rixtil41 t1_ixy0e7q wrote

What are you going to do when your obsolete tech needs repaire ?

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Foundation12a t1_ixy0t01 wrote

Either take it to be repaired or buy a new version of it. Even if tech is obsolete it doesn't make it unavailable if it did things like floppy disks or pagers wouldn't exist at all.

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rixtil41 t1_ixy1bce wrote

But there is no new version of dream cast. You can only buy ones that haven't been used which is not the same. You can't take a dream cast to be repaired.

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Foundation12a t1_ixy243o wrote

And how many dreamcasts were ever produced? Less than 10 million units. There are literally billions of laptops and smartphones there are too prolific a technology to ever go extinct. A specific model may become rare or unavailable but a smartphone or laptop will always be something you can buy.

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rixtil41 t1_ixy2v2y wrote

What I was saying is that laptops are anything outdated won't suddenly dissappear but the support of those outdated tech will go away. Once that happens you don't have a practical choice in the long term. Is it possible yes that they will continue it in the long term yes, is it realistic ? no.

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Foundation12a t1_ixy41e5 wrote

You are wrong then because as stated you can still buy tech that was obsolete decades ago brand new.

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rixtil41 t1_ixy4bdy wrote

I'm done

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Foundation12a t1_ixy5enu wrote

So you have concluded that it is in fact not only possible but basically impossible that widespread technology like smartphones or laptops are always going to be options for people or at least they will be for the next several decades.

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rixtil41 t1_ixxxaac wrote

Let's comeback to this comment in 2039 and will see who's ridiculous.

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