[-empyre-] audiences

[Tamiko Thiel]

> From: Alan Sondheim<sondheim at gmail.com>
>
> In your other email you write: "The hype about AR comes exactly from the
> fact that a device that everybody enjoys and likes to have (smartphone,
> iPad), and is a symbol of being (let's face it) wealthy and hip, is ALSO
> capable of doing this new and cool technological thing." Below, you describe
> it as "chic."
>
> Are these people then your audience?

Dear Alan,

I want my audience to be as large as possible, given realistic 
restrictions on access to technology, price, etc.

Realistically, PCs only became widespread and cheaper once they became 
"chic" in a broad layer of western society, and cellphones only became 
widespread and therefore cheap enough to permeate to less wealthy parts 
of society and the world once they were "chic" in a broad layer of 
western society.

I do expect the same thing to happen to smartphones, and academics alone 
will never drive down the price point.

Yours, Tamiko

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