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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Using Vision Pro: 'It's an Aha Moment'
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Costs only went up with iPhone and iPad Pro.
And I might try it then, if it's become useful too.
But fwiw, I needed glasses young, and wore them all the time other than sleeping and bathing. After my cataract surgery, I no longer need to wear them except for 2 or 3 hours a day (driving and when I need them for eye protection where I work), I don't want to EVER have to wear glasses all the time again!
It’s called the meta quest 3. You won’t get a lower cost vision pro. And at the price that “most people want” it wouldn’t be what Apple showed off.
They said not without carrier subs. And then carriers did subsidize it. They still do. Hey take a 1000 off. Discount over 3 years.
No one is doing that with vision pro.
To be fair they really didn’t say that. They took one look and their stomach dropped. Google dropped whatever blackberry like device they were doing. Back to the drawing board. I mean it’s like some of you are rewriting history. Or weren’t there for the first iPhone event.
That's something I'm looking forward to. It's possible, but it's going to be quite some time before you can embed it in a a consumer device.
If this is so annoying to you, there are two other options:
-wear contacts
-get laser eye surgery
I fully agree here. People keep dropping this as if it’s a simple concept that is a mere years away as if AR tracking isn’t one of the most computationally intensive things a computer can do right now, all having to run on a motherboard that never gets hot to the touch and with tiny batteries to fit in a comfortable pair of glasses… Pure science fiction for a long while.
If you consider the fact that Mac prices have not gone up with inflation for a couple decades, costs have technically come down a lot. If you spent $2499 on a 15” PowerBook G4 20 years ago, that’s the same as ~$4000 today, but the 16” M2 Pro MacBook Pro starts at the same price.
I don’t think Tim is the best brand ambassador of Apple. But Vision pro is like the first Tesla. Expensive, not for everyone and defining a new category. Tesla 3 and Y are now the best selling cars in the world. I nonetheless believe that Vision pro will sell its first million easy even at this price. Can’t wait to see the aVision (without the pro) which will be define following what apps are standing out on the first two years of the pro … Competition is already working on their version …
Who does Cook think he’s fooling? The cost of this supposed “Aha” moment is wearing head gear that empties your wallet, makes you look like a geek, isolates you in a manufactured world and appears to have no especially compelling use case so far?
I’d submit that most of us had the “aha” moment the second we saw Tim’s Newton being used by that single dad to creep on his own kid’s birthday party.
I’d submit that most of us had the “aha” moment the second we saw Tim’s Newton being used by that single dad to creep on his own kid’s birthday party.
Sure. But that's only true for the first gen. I'm sure the price will go down in future generations, or they'll launch a new cheaper headset and keep the high price for future Pro versions.
Unfortunately I can't do either. Would if I could. Medical reasons, not by my choice.
Tim probably is using iPhone 21 and MacBook Pro 2027 now, just take some prototypes from the lab
I just realised that people don't necessarily have to hand out 3500$ right away. Paying in installments will make the product much more affordable.
Honestly, I think the biggest issue here is production yields: as far as we know, only around 5/600 thousands units can be produced a year. Considering that production has begun a few months back, and that there are still a few months before launch, we can assume less than 500 thousands units will be ready. To me, that sounds waaaay too few, especially if customers will try it on at Apple stores and will be amazed.
Honestly, I think the biggest issue here is production yields: as far as we know, only around 5/600 thousands units can be produced a year. Considering that production has begun a few months back, and that there are still a few months before launch, we can assume less than 500 thousands units will be ready. To me, that sounds waaaay too few, especially if customers will try it on at Apple stores and will be amazed.
The necessary technology for that doesn’t exist though, and I don’t expect it will for at least the next decade or so.
That's conservative. Things do seem to move along though. We shall see. I will not hold my breath (or line up).