Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers. Apple began...

Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets::Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple’s sales numbers. Apple began…

  • stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    122·
    10 months ago

    R&D for a jet or tank is significantly more. To not throw out nonsense some quick googling told me the R&D just for an upgrade of the Abrams tank (which is old) is $650m and the total R&D of the F22 jet over two decades was $32B…

    • rottingleafEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      Well, nice to know somebody lives in such a peaceful part of the planet to not be interested in cost of creating a tank or a jet.

        • rottingleafEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          I meant that the person you were answering to is happy to never have been interested in those things.

          Say, there are countries where people are genuinely interested in whether their government is able to create some kind of a MIC and a functioning military as a deterrent in following years with the budget they have.

          • stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            22·
            10 months ago

            Gotcha. Yeah… Since they said “expect” I wasn’t really judging that perception, I mean I too would like to “expect” R&D on tanks and jets to be under a billion dollars so that the USA didn’t have to spend $900B/yr on “defense”