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An accessibility paywall on Meta Glasses could be good news for Apple Glasses

Meta has retroactively imposed a usage limit on an accessibility feature of its Ray-Ban Meta Glasses, effectively creating a paywall for a hardware product already sold to customers. This move could benefit Apple's upcoming glasses by highlighting the importance of free, built-in accessibility features.

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Ray-Ban Meta Glasses and the latest cheaper non-designer option are sold on the basis of the built-in AI features, but the company has just announced a “ridiculous” limit on the free usage you can make of an accessibility feature.

Effectively, Meta has retroactively applied a paywall to a hardware product it already sold to customers …

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