Ok, lets compare it to the iPad,
Why? iPad is very different in key ways.
Actually, many of us had been calling for an iOS device with a big enough screen to actually take advantage of it. The iPhone screen at that time was too small for the interface elements.
it doesn't have the apps,
Well, it had far faster third party developer support after launch than the Vision. Additionally, porting from iPhone to iPad was nowhere near the same as the move from an iOS to a Vision app. I mean, unless you just want your app to be another dumb floating window.
False. Ask WaCom. Plenty of people had tablets.
no one is going to use tablet,
Again, the use case for iPad was part of its very existence. Jobs wanted to call it the Safari Pad. The idea that “no one (was) going to use it” is and was nonsense.
People either have smart phones, or laptop.
Yeah. And the fear was that a successful and capable iPad would severely damage MacBook sales. This is STILL an active discussion today.
The iPad is too expensive and doesn't do enough for someone to be able to get rid of their laptop.
Was the iPad priced over 3.5k in 2010 dollars? Nope. Not even close. Was it positioned as a laptop replacement or the “future of computing”? A “new paradigm”? No.
Its not powerful enough, and no one expect a niche set of techies will ever want it.
Again, this criticism is ongoing and applies to basically everything Apple makes so it’s not a good example.
Or compare it to the Apple Watch.
Why? It’s vastly different from Apple Watch.
Its very limited has pour battery life... etc, etc.
When they introduced it the Apple Watch had no reason for existing. There was no killer app for it. Apple struggled with it for sure. BUT, and this is a HUGE but, people have been wearing watches on their wrists since World War One and before that people have been wearing bracelets on their wrists for as long as we have records of Homo Sapiens existing. So the barrier to adopting Apple Watch was so low as to be basically non existent. Yet Apple STILL struggles to find a compelling reason for people to buy it beyond “it’s a fancy Fitbit.”
My point being, that Apple Invests a lot of money in lots of products that they don't always bring to the market, but usually when they do, they believe it, and it does well.
Okay. But in this case I think the jury is still out and the outlook is not good,
If they don't bring it to market, it's not a waste of money.
I haven’t personally called Vision a waste of money. That said, the fact that they brought it to market does not suggest confidence in the Vision. Reporting around the engineering team who built it suggests that many of them considered it half baked but pushed out to satisfy the Apple board and Tim Cook.
It is in fact money well spent in determining that bringing it to market would have been a waste of money. VisionPro is still too early to tell if it'll be a flop or not.
I never disagreed with any of that except to the extent that many red flags are waving near Vision. A lot more than green ones.
