C'mon Apple give us a release date and timeframe when demo units arrive at Apple Stores. I wanna try this thing already.
I’m afraid rumors of “early 2024” are too ambitious.
Mid-2024? 🤔
Probably late 2024, in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season (at the earliest).
WWDC24 will probably be devoted to M3 Macs, Apple OS software — including realityOS — and software development and developer tools.
Apple
has a lot to work out to make those slick, stagey Apple Vision Pro promo videos we saw match
reality.
For one thing, leaked images showed people wearing the device with an
additional strap across the head, suggesting it is (currently)
HEA—VY!
And how are people going to feel about the Vision Pro’s tethered battery in its current form? 🤔
(I’m not too concerned about its “high” price tag — Apple has gotten products out the door and into the marketplace before that were pretty pricey, but — being now out in the world — they enjoyed a lot of free, positive publicity and news coverage during the time Apple needed in order to get the price down. Apple PR at first should be, “It’s not for everyone —
yet.”)
It
seems like the “Apple Vision Pro’s” OS/system software is further along than the hardware.
Make no mistake: with the Apple Vision Pro,
Apple has invented a new product category. (I don’t care about its “precursors.”)
But Apple had better hurry!
If
competitors’ “Apple Vision Pros” come out before
Apple’s Apple Vision Pro, Apple will not be seen as
first — and first (not best) is
everything.
Just ask Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lindberg, Neil Armstrong (who beat Buzz Aldrin by just 19 minutes, but he was still
first!) how
critically important being recognized for being
FIRST is (would that you
could ask them…).
History (and
product success) doesn’t reward the
better (but second or third or later to do something), it rewards the
FIRST.
Being
better, but second or third, etc. is
nowhere.
You MUST be first.
(Be
first, not
better. Be
first, and then become better
after — the
best!)
Apple
announced and
demoed the first iPhone to the world on January 9, 2007, but first
shipped it in the United States on
June 29, 2007, giving
Google and
Samsung — we now know —
6 whole months to frantically
race back to the drawing board 🏃🏃♂️🏃♀️on their
very different (at the time)
Android OS and
copy the iPhone’s industrial design and software as
closely as they could get away with.
With the Vision Pro, Apple has invented a
new product category, a
FIRST — and I don’t care if
AR/VR headsets existed before it; the Apple Vision Pro is to AR/VR headsets what the first iPhone was to all smartphones that preceded it. Incontrovertibly, the iPhone changed
all mobile phones going forward
forever:
“Apple's boast that the iPhone changed everything about the mobile industry has received some support from one of Android's original software architects. Chris DeSalvo, who worked alongside Andy Rubin at Danger before joining Google to build its mobile OS, says that the iPhone's announcement forced everyone on his team to realize that they "are going to have to start over.” — theverge. com, Dec 20, 2013
And the exact same happened after Apple released the iPad.
The only “serious” competition Apple faces ahead of the Apple Vision Pro’s release is the
paltry-by-comparison facebook/Meta
Oculus Quest.
But you can be sure that Mark Zuckerberg isn’t busy having his teams hurry advanced
proof-of-concept in-house
Oculus design prototypes at Meta, he — like
Microsoft, Google and Samsung before him — is having his teams
copy Apple.
But if facebook/Meta manages to release an “Apple Vision Pro” before Apple releases an “Apple Vision Pro,” Meta will win the crown of being
FIRST —
and Apple can’t let that happen!
Geez. After SOOOO many
decades of it, this “
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” thing is really wearing thin…
Copy someone else for a change! 😠
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