Mark Zuckerberg defends $1500 price tag for Meta's VR headset - TweakTown

Facebook laminitis Mark Zuckerberg has precocious defended his determination to terms the Meta Quest Pro astatine conscionable $1,500.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO and Facebook founder

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The Meta CEO and Facebook laminitis precocious appeared connected a podcast with Stratechery's Ben Thompson, wherever helium sat down to sermon assorted topics specified arsenic Meta's upcoming projects and however helium believes the metaverse volition beryllium the adjacent large happening that radical adopt. When asked astir the pricing of Meta's products, successful particular, the Meta Quest Pro, Zuckerberg took the accidental to subtly propulsion shadiness astatine Apple done a examination betwixt his company's pricing and Apple's.

Zuckerberg went connected to accidental that companies typically physique hardware and effort to marque a nett disconnected the archetypal merchantability of that hardware, but successful Apple's case, according to Zuckerberg, "you complaint arsenic overmuch arsenic you tin for it". As you might've already expected, Zuckerberg explains that Meta is taking a antithetic attack to hardware income by lone trying to "break even".

"I bash deliberation that having idiosyncratic travel into the abstraction and fundamentally say, "We're going to physique the champion hardware successful the abstraction and we're going to fundamentally merchantability it astatine a break-even constituent and successful immoderate cases," said Zuckerberg.

$1,500 Meta Quest Pro virtual world headset

"It's typically radical physique hardware and they effort to marque a nett disconnected of it, wherever if you're Apple, you physique hardware and you complaint arsenic overmuch arsenic you tin for it," Zuckerberg said.

Notably, the Meta Quest Pro is priced astatine $1,500, a heft terms constituent for a portion of hardware that isn't mostly being adopted by the masses. Additionally, Zuckerberg said that Meta program connected releasing the Meta Quest 3, which volition beryllium astatine a overmuch little terms point, determination betwixt $300 and $500.

Furthermore, Zuckerberg explains that Meta's extremity is to person arsenic galore radical successful the metaverse arsenic imaginable and that helium believes the aforementioned concern strategy, including the terms points, is aligned with the company's ngo of connecting radical to make a societal experience.

Admittedly, Zuckerberg says that astir of the wealth volition beryllium made from bundle purchases and services the institution volition provide.

This isn't the archetypal clip Zuckerberg has subtly thrown immoderate shadiness astatine Apple, arsenic the Facebook laminitis precocious stated that he's successful a "deep, philosophical competition" with Apple since helium pivoted his full institution toward the metaverse. Additionally, Apple hasn't been quiescent astir Zuckerberg's comments either, with Apple CEO Tim Cook saying successful an interrogation with a Dutch work that helium believes the mean idiosyncratic can't explicate what the metaverse is.

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Zuckerberg's determination to spell headfirst into the metaverse has resulted successful the Facebook laminitis losing $71 cardinal done 2022, a determination that has resulted successful Meta announcing coming layoffs and show hikes for employees.

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