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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

Microsoft released the first-gen Zune in 2006, an MP3 player that looked to compete with Apple’s largely dominant line of iPods. Apple wasn’t the first to make a portable MP3 player, although it was the first to make one everyone wanted. Zooming out, Zune’s ultimate defeat belies a larger pattern of behavior.

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The Best Smart Watches In 2023 / 2024: From Blood Sugar Monitoring To AI Personal Training

Bernard Marr

Apple popularized the smartwatch, just as it did with the smartphone when it released the Apple watch in 2015. Funded via a Kickstarter campaign in 2011, it was one of the first watches to pair with a smartphone to deliver notifications to your wrist. And who remembers the Pebble ?

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. I do a lot with Apple technology. So I was teaching digital literacy and computer science content to four year olds, 3 to 11 year olds.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. I do a lot with Apple technology. So I was teaching digital literacy and computer science content to four year olds, 3 to 11 year olds.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. I do a lot with Apple technology. So I was teaching digital literacy and computer science content to four year olds, 3 to 11 year olds.