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CN2498T t1_j3plsnw wrote

Meta is shooting themselves in their foot. Their platform is already set to fail, now they are accelerating it.

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w0mbatina t1_j3r78kz wrote

How so? Quest has been discontinued since 2020. Why would they be shooting themselves in the foot by not producing updates for a product they havent been selling for over 4 years at that point?

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ominous_squirrel t1_j3tehk4 wrote

When I buy an expensive tech gadget from a multi-billion dollar company, I expect it to be supported for more than a couple years. For some of us, this was a major purchase on par with buying a new computer

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ExultantSandwich t1_j3uqc46 wrote

It still works, and it will still have access to the store for buying games. It will still be repaired under warranty if you have one, and I’m sure they’ll repair them out of warranty if you pay.

They’re just not adding new stuff to it. Did you buy the headset expecting new features or did you buy it for what it could already do? What features are missing that could even be added via software at this point?

Your headset will continue to work exactly as it does. If you expect long software support for anything, I would strongly advise not buying any first generation products. The first iPhone only got 3 years of software support too, yet people still used them well past that point.

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detectiveDollar t1_j4j396q wrote

Hell it's more like buying a new console, and those get updated for ages. Xbox One and PS4 are still getting software updates.

Hell the 360 got one in 2019.

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w0mbatina t1_j3v6yjw wrote

Its still gonna work. My rift s works just fine eventho they stopped releasing updates years ago.

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