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Russell Holly Microsoft has a history of making their developer kits expensive to help pay for support. What do you think a good price would be, given what we've seen so far?
My gut says that $500 or less would be the magic threshold to gaining any kind of mass appeal. I can't see enough people justifying the purchase for much more than that, not at first. Perhaps after more developers do interesting things with it, adoption rates and development will begin a positive feedback loop and more people will see the value in it. However, I also don't see how MS could be profitable on it for less than a thousand.
If they start out at over $1k, perhaps there'll be enough adoption in businesses to build enough familiarity in consumers for them to see the value in it. But I'd guess this strategy would take several years for it to become a household name, running more risk of more competition. I figure we're within a year of an impressive announcement from Magic Leap.