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Apple Now Selling $300 Developer Strap for Vision Pro
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A Thunderbolt 3/4 port should serve the purpose of mirroring a Mac display at full resolution up to 4k 120hz 4:4:4. However, Apple stays away from this straight road but sells a $300 strap. How greedy Apple is.
Luckily, the AVP can't really accurately render a 4K 120Hz floating screen anyway?
I am wondering how this works for developers who flew in specifically to purchase the Vision Pro. Do they have to make another trip just for this dongle?
I would expect/hope that developers don't need the dongle?
I'm sure it can be developed for over wifi, but will be faster via the dongle?
And unbearably slow for larger projects. As an iOS developer, I think this is a ridiculous price.
Strikes me like maybe Apple would prefer the fewest people possible have access to this, and priced it accordingly. My guess would be that they figure it is the most likely source for a possible jailbreak. But if that were true, I would expect them to just “rent” them like the initial AS Dev Kits and require them back, so who knows?
This is called capitalism and Apple mastered the skills of earning money in perfection. So, you want to blame them for playing the game good? Or do you want to play the blame game because you can't take responsibility for your consumption? Nobody is forced to buy their products or develop Software for the Apple Vision Pro. This isn't about defending anyone, this is about taking your own responsibility. Be happy that you live in a country where you can make your own decisions.
Dude, can you even hear yourself?
This is the reality distortion field in action.
It’s called a “developer strap”; that’s all that needs to be done to clearly communicate who it is/is not for. That people would make the argument that it really needs to be $300 to stop it being so “tempting” to idiots is just… wow…
Correct, although wireless debugging is horrendously slow in my experience with the 15 Pro so this should have been included or much cheaper.
But Apple really wants developers to develop for the platform so this a very shortsighted decision. Most developers would definitely need this for the speed benefits when debugging issues, trust me.
Apple should be handing these out to devs for free, as well as offering large incentives to develop for the AVP. Such as devs keeping 100% of income from their AVP apps for 2024. Stuff like that. Tim Cook in all his hubris, along with the other elites at Apple don’t seem to realize how badly they need the help of devs to save this platform. So out of touch.
Considering there isn’t a rush by the developer community to make apps for Vision Pro $300 seems steep. Especially for small studios / indie app developers who have to buy a headset for $3599, pay the $99 annual dev fee plus and own an expensive dev Mac that they own.
This post on every single Apple product released ever. If not this then "should have given us the upgrade above for the same price"
I wonder if there's going to be a class action lawsuit, from people getting carpal tunnel syndrome, having to type five times in every Vision Pro story, about how they're not going to buy something ?
Is file transfer over usb-c possible? It won't be long before China builds one and they end up on eBay or Amazon.
Holy smokes... there sure are a lot of DEVELOPERS here being outraged and going non-linear about the price of the Developer Strap.
Who would have thought?
I wonder what kind of apps they'll be developing?
Who would have thought?
I wonder what kind of apps they'll be developing?