There is a lot of "hate" towards the VP on these forums and I thought I would comment for the first time in years! Sorry it is a long post.
I watched the VP keynote and thought that looks interesting. It was released in the USA but I couldn't buy one in the UK. So I read VP comments on Macrumours and watched Youtube videos of reviewers wearing the device. However, I felt the VP is a very personal device and watching someone wear it is not the same as wearing it first hand.
Over the months, I read lots of negative forum comments on Macrumours VP articles. I started forming a negative opinion about the VP despite never having seen it myself. But, in theory, the negative comments on Macrumours must be from people who had bought a VP so their negativity was a warning sign.
Eventually the VPs went on sale in the UK and I had promised my son he could have one if he did well in his exams. He did very well so I had to stand over the deal. But I felt this was going to be a bad purchase as clearly so many postings on Macrumours over months clearly hated the VP - it was an expensive failed product, etc. A yawn to some.
However, I stood by the deal and I bought my son a VP. He loved it! What's more I love it too and I am going to buy my own VP.
The moral of the story is the negative forum comments on Macrumours led me to believe the VP was a failed product despite having never seen it myself before it became available in the UK. I now wonder if many of the negative commentators have actually got a VP themselves or even had a demo in an Apple Store. Are they just negatively commenting on a product they have no experience of? Being negative purely because they can be negative!
I own an android phone and tablet for development purposes. I don't like them and I feel I can be negative about Android because I own them. I have never owned a Microsoft Surface device so I don't feel I can comment positively or negatively either way.
If you are going to be positive or negative about a product, perhaps it would be worthwhile owning or having experience of the product. After all, we don't go onto Amazon and leave reviews on products that we never bought.
Positive and negative comments are equally important - provided you have experience of the product you are commenting on. I get the feeling that many negative comments on here are from people who don't have a VP and have never seen it.
Is it perfect? No of course not. When the iPhone 1 arrived there were far less apps and the hardware improved with each generation. The VP will be the same. I like it, my son likes it and others will dislike it. But at least they used it.
I am not defending Apple or the VP. We like it. I am just suggesting that positive and negative comments should be by users who have actually used the product.
Comments based on personal experience have value. Comments based on no experience have no value and raise questions about the poster's motivation.
Sorry, first posting in years and it is a long one!