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Apple Confirms Vision Pro is Not Eligible for Trade-In
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If you're a dev, why waste time on a "killer app" when the barrier to entry is so high that sales are as low as they are?
Since when has apple EVER offered a trade in for an intimate product like headphones?
It’s not about finding a “killer app.” The use cases are already there. Watching movies on a giant screen, using multiple virtual monitors, and so on. The problem is the number of compromises. It’s too heavy, too awkward, and it looks ridiculous on your head. You need a bag to carry it around. It’s too expensive, and the battery doesn’t last long. If this device were the size of normal glasses and cost about the same as a smartphone, everyone would buy one. The use cases exist. The technology just isn’t mature enough yet.
The problem is that if the main thing you want to do is watch movies on a giant screen or use a virtual monitor, the Meta Quest does this for $500 (and that's the more expensive version). Sure, the black levels on the OLED displays in the AVP are a bit better, but there's no universe in which the difference justifies $3000. If Meta Quest never existed, this might have had a slightly better longshot, but as it is this thing is basically a prototype of a dev kit.
The have 'punished early adopters' on multiple previous occasions. Apple are experts at it.
Apple does this all the time with their iPhone's not having the latest features unless you have their latest device.
That's a reach. Phones and iPads travel everywhere and have seen some crazy questionable situations vs something that's on your head at home.
This is actually the worst piece of news I’ve heard about the Vision Pro. Forget whether the upgrade is worth it, just the fact that they wouldn’t trade it in sends a bad message to owners, including this one.
I’ve stopped doing the trade-in of my Apple stuff with Apple.
It went from bad to horrible very fast.
There’s no Apple Store where I live, so I realized it’s way better to buy from retailer's and do the trade in with them as well. Win win 🥳
But I have no intention to get a scuba-mask though 😉
It went from bad to horrible very fast.
There’s no Apple Store where I live, so I realized it’s way better to buy from retailer's and do the trade in with them as well. Win win 🥳
But I have no intention to get a scuba-mask though 😉
All they need to accept for the trade in are the unit itself, the speaker straps and the battery. The rest is like Apple Watch bands the customers can keep for their next device. I don’t understand how hard it can be…
I may pass the upgrade anyway, until I see a real benefit. The M2 is currently capable of doing everything I need.
Bad move by Apple, but you would get short changed by them anyway if they did accept trade-ins. Always sell through a 3rd party.
Made S, Sold S, they know its S. Of course they don't want to take it back. This is exactly what I have been warning people. Apple releases S products to get a profit and let it bleed to death.
Be happy they did not release the car and ended its lifecycle on release date.
The Macbook Pro when maxed is around $6000 after a year its $800.
Be happy they did not release the car and ended its lifecycle on release date.
The Macbook Pro when maxed is around $6000 after a year its $800.
HAAHAA I was going to ask who actually bought this? Lol I know there's only 145 owners in the world. HAAHAA
I remember in the late 2000's and early 2010's all the tech bros started investing in green energy seeing it as the next big thing. They all quickly realized that investing in large scale, long term ideas like this don't create immediate return like they were used to. They pretty much abandoned it after that point.
Our economy has basically become a meme stock. It's based on hype and vaporware. All these companies are panicking bc tech has matured significantly and there is no real "next big thing" coming. Zuck spent $40B+ hoping VR was it and whiffed big time. Now these companies are spending $100's of billions of capital that could be put into real world tangible and necessary assets but instead, they created a circle jerk of money that just swirls around to make each company look far more valuable that it actually is without creating anything.
Our country essentially gave up on building necessary future technologies for the good and health of the economy to sell out to the share holders who for 20+ years only have a "line must go up" mentality, regardless if its real or not. (see Tesla)
It is also possible they don't have a cost effective way to refurbish it to Apple standards
Agreed, watching the reviews and videos, doesn’t seem like worth an upgrade from the M2 to M5 version. Faster loading and rendering but overall just as capable. Be interesting to see the whether the next iteration of visionOS in 2026 brings M5 only features.
Kind of makes sense to me. By offering a trade in value they are essentially dictating the "base" used value of the product. If they offered a low trade-in value, they would be indirectly admitting that despite being expensive to purchase, the actual value of the product is low. Rather than this, they will just exclude it from the program.
