But it was useful to virtually everybody.
The AVP right now is AFAICT useful to gamers and movie watchers, basically recreational. I don’t see a single productivity application right now that is broadly useful. I will emphasize right now. I have no doubt AVP could become very useful in the near future in certain professional areas. I’m sure a company like GE or RR would love to use something like this for the training of their junior technicians on how to properly disassemble a $15M turbofan engine and then put it back together again, similar in medicine/surgery. I’m sure there will eventually be lots of specialized professional applications where there is a very simple and clear value proposition. But I doubt this will ever have the broad versatility of an iPhone or Mac, and that’s before we even consider the value proposition. In that sense I can see why someone like Gurman would claim it’s the iPad that the AVP will displace, not the Mac or iPhone.