The fact that they went to market with a $3.5k price tag tells me they just aren’t serious about wide adoption, period.

The reality is it's a dev demo unit but pride doesn't allow them to say it.

It's over speced with hardware as it won't be mass sold for a few more years at which point the price for the components will have naturally dropped allowing selling it for a more "reasonable" price. This is apple so it still won't be cheap.

It's made with metal to get the brand of being the "best" build, but watch them drop it on future units (while folks still keep thinking of it as best in build)

The original Mac cost about $7k in current dollars.

I remember thinking the original iPhone was hugely overpriced, too.

Valid point, but this is the first new product from them where I haven’t seen a lot of sustained excitement.

Huge technical leap, but to where? I don’t think Apple has figured that part out.

We’ll see what Gen 2 brings, but if they don’t have a lot more content and apps at launch it’s going to be a hard sell at any price