This comment on the original article is almost exactly what I was going to say here

Whose expectations? Couldn’t have been mine as I expected very few buyers due to the high price and no compelling use case. (Source: sw1tcher)

Next headline: “People cut back on discretionary spending in the face of rising cost-of-living unaffordability crisis. Sales down for $3,499.99 pair of goggles and caviar.”

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Another Apple newton. I bet in 20 years they’ll put out another attempt in the form factor of almost-regular eyeglasses and it’ll actually revolutionize AR computing.