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.

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 https://9to5mac.com/guides/accessibility/ feature. Effectively, Meta https://9to5mac.com/guides/meta/ has retroactively applied a paywall to a hardware product it already sold to customers …