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Apple Prepares to Launch Vision Pro in UK, Canada, and Other Countries
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I’m from Australia as well but the price increase is $300AUD which is around $200USD.
The base model 11” iPad Pro was $1399AUD with 128GB and the new one is $1699AUD with 256GB.
I agree these are expensive but yeah it’s not outlandish and in line with the US prices. I won’t be getting till Apple improves the OS. The M4 is wasted in the iPad right now.
Two bloggers posting opinions isn’t corroboration. Nor is blogging an opinion first a “scoop”. 😂
Probably, if the price is similar to the U.S. price. Based on the current exchange rate, $3,499 USD (pre-sales tax starting price of Vision Pro) is about €3,212. The VAT can be the variable. If, for example, a country has a 25% VAT that would bring the price to €4,015.
Not interested. 1st gen product and would still be way too expensive if it they halved the price.
I'd like to try it but it'd have to be <£1,000 for me to even consider it. I'd rather buy a Meta Quest whatever it's called.
I'd like to try it but it'd have to be <£1,000 for me to even consider it. I'd rather buy a Meta Quest whatever it's called.
When you see the Apple logo stamped on a product, it is inevitable you will love it…. if you approach the product with an open mind.
There are less expensive headsets for watching porn.
If you’re buying Vision Pro instead of another headset, it’s for other reasons.
I expect it will be more than that though unless its a business purchase - don't forget to add VAT on top of the usual higher prices we get in Europe.
Then why does iPad Air still gets a 60hz display? Promotion is 2017 technology. I agree that iPad Pro did got rid of some useless things such as a ultra wide lens, but they still seek profit somehow
The comments here regarding AVP pretty much dovetail with comments back when iPod/iPhone/Watch were released.
Not surprised at all; rather, expected.
Not surprised at all; rather, expected.
Apple's incredible ProMotion display technology is really expensive. It doesn't make sense to put this into a budget-friendly device at the cost of other things iPad Air users love. Most people can't tell the difference, although we techies can easily see it.
Getting the price down to a truly remarkable $599 requires some compromises. One of the chunkiest items when taking things iPads Pros to the iPads Airs is the display cost. So going with a gorgeous 60hz panel is an amazing place to start given what I wrote in the previous paragraph.
Yes, you are right - Apple seeks to make profit.
And a sky's-the-limt AR applications for a wide variety of commercial/industrial/medical/educational/architectural/etc. applications.
And loads of consumer possibilities. I'm looking forward to exploring the caves in Lascaux, France to walk among the cave paintings dating back 15,000 years. And maybe running a San Francisco Marathon with 25,000 other runners.
It takes just a wee bit of imagination.
Remarkable, Gorgeous, Incredible - I detect an adjective overload straight from the Apple book of approved words !
Sweet, now Canadians and Germans can overpay, use this thing for a week before returning it, just like us Americans.
To be fair the Mac launched without a killer app. It was the combination of PageMaker and the LaserWriter more than a year after the Mac's launch where the use case for it became clear and Apple and the Mac cemented their place as the go-to computer for desktop publishing and graphic design/creative arts in general.
And for the record the original Macintosh at launch would have cost $7300 in today's dollars.
The original Mac was a failure.
There’s just no way around it. The problem is not the potential of AR, but that tech for mass adoption of AR simply does not exist.
Even if the VPro was a third of the price, it still would lack a mass reason to buy.
MacPaint (!), MacWrite, and MacDraw were revolutionary, incredibly compelling apps, being offered by Apple.
Add to this the ability to copy & paste from one app to another, to have a wide range of fonts, and then have it all printed out (in yes, a dot-matrix at first) exactly how you saw it on the screen, made the Mac incredibly compelling.
It is true that Aldus Pagemaker and the LaserWriter brought this all together in a way that made an exact, business-quality solution targeting specific professions, where people could justify the cost to their bosses. But right off the bat, the potential was blindingly obvious.
Again, the “potential” of AR is blindingly obvious, that’s not the point. Also the “potential” of teleportation is blindingly obvious.
But we’re many years far from having the tech that is needed to realize that potential.
Comments like this keep missing the boat. The first Vision product is "Pro" for a reason. It's not targeting the average consumer. The Meta Quest products are not its direct competitors.
Apple is just getting started...
That’s odd, I don’t remember the comments about the iPod/iPhone/Apple Watch being this brutal whatsoever.