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Apple Continues Refining visionOS With Fourth Beta Release
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Not even close. The first Mac was $2495 in 1984 dollars, which is almost $7400 today. So, more than double what the AVP will be selling for. Still around double even if you need prescription lenses.
I wonder how will visionOS work with people that are blinded from an eye?! If it follows the eyesight I hope it has good accessibility features for it to work with everyone.
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Nearly a billion in sales would be a success for a pro tier device. You think the original Mac will be more capable than the VisionPro?
I wanted to buy this device as a blogger, but I doubt it would actually improve my workflow. Based on many videos of Vision Pros, the OS appears to be limiting the device’s potential. Unless it brings the full Mac experience, I don’t think we’ll see people replacing their notebooks anytime soon.
Can’t wait to see what the Apple Card Monthly Installment would be for this
I think the original Mac was more compelling in 1984 as a general computing device than the AVP will be in 2024.
Maybe, but Macs currently sell a hundred times as many units per year, and iPhones almost a thousand times as many units. We'll see how the AVP will fare in the longer run.
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as someone who's used it, what I can say is that if you buy it, you will want to keep it. It's that good
I’m buying one on day 1. Keeping it sealed in the box and selling it at auction 20 years from now for $250k.
Apple continues to refine operating system software that is in beta for an unreleased product.
If they didnt write it, you wouldnt know!
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Include the 3% cash back and spread it over 36 months for marketing purposes and Apple can offer it for "only $99/month." For the seemingly big crowd mostly concerned with monthly payments, the right credit-based offer can make it seem easily affordable for anyone.
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Hahahahaha. You really have not the least little clue. You know what the Mac shipped with in 1984? MacWrite and MacPaint. Not quite toy apps, but far from professional tools. And... that's it. Nothing else. The first commercial program for Mac after that didn't arrive for something like six months, and it was possibly the worst program ever sold for any computer, ever. It was called "Habadex", and it was supposed to be a rolodex. Genius move, right? Who doesn't need one of those? Except at that point, Macs couldn't multitask. So you'd spend $40 or $50 (I forget) to turn your $2500 Mac into a very slow rolodex. Except it had one feature Rolodexes never had: It could crash! And it would, frequently. And of course it wouldn't just crash when it crashed. It took down the whole machine, because in those days MacOS had no memory protection either. It wasn't until 1985 that some half-decent software started showing up, and not that much at first. Of course by 1986, it was a different story.
So why did we plunk down so much cash for a toy? Because it wasn't just a toy, it was also the future, and we wanted to experience it as it was coming. And we did.
Regardless, comparing that experience to the AVP, even with just the OS and iphone/ipad apps (nevermind whatever gets created especially for the AVP) is ludicrous.
Your numbers are off by an order of magnitude.
Macs sold about 100x that (~26 million) in 2022. iPhones, 900x (225 million).
I want it I don’t want it I need it I don’t need it … reminds me of the early years of personal computing … Now my computer is in my pocket. Vpro is going to fly in the world of architecture and design, engineers and wellbeing …
You get that the “screens” in VP are limited to the resolution of the headset itself? That means you won’t get a 4k screen. You’ll get less than that with a single screen and FAR less than that if you have more than one running. Furthermore, Apple has been pretty clear that the “virtual screen” is actually just a second monitor for your Mac, so don’t expect an infinite number of UHD screens at your fingertips. VP won’t do that.
Each of those industries already has dedicated enterprise hardware for that. This is not an enterprise product. It’s a consumer product.
The point is we already do have iPhones/iPads (and at a significantly lower price), and the AVP also isn’t a replacement for those. That makes it much less compelling.