Matisyahu's Blog

Yes, even when I am on holiday I am following the latest technology news – I don’t want to sound snarky but I predicted this a while ago, there will be the early adopter phase with lots of hype then it’ll be relegated to a niche. Now, I’m not saying that foldable phones suck – I quite like the foldable flip phones but the reality is that their price drops to the point that people have two phones the same price (a foldable and non-foldable of the same specs) side by side then it falls into the “why the hell not” rather than the current situation of a price premium with people asking “is my life going to be different if I spend the extra money”.

I’m not a fan of people who say that xyz is “doomed I tells ya, doomed!” but what I can say is that it’ll be relegated to a niche just as the Apple Vision Pro will be relegated to a niche along with the whole Metaverse visual world being a niche (yes, we’ve already had such a service in the past – it’s called ‘Second Life’). For introvert like me the idea of dealing people even in a virtual space is just as bad as dealing with people in the real life – thank you but no thank you. Yes, I understand that the size of the market has increased but eventually those markets where it is growing will eventually hit a wall and growth will die off.