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Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2
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So glad there was a post for the fabulous four who cling to confirmation bias about their opinions about the AVP.
As for me, I love and use my AVP regularly. I'm in it for the long haul, as is Apple.
As for me, I love and use my AVP regularly. I'm in it for the long haul, as is Apple.
Considering no one is even talking about it anymore ……yeah it’s a flop. No one cares and in this economic climate can’t stomach 3500 bucks for a giant TV screen strapped to your skull with a 2 hour battery life
They did this with the original iPhone. $200 price cut after 2 months, and the 2nd gen device had carrier subsidized pricing.
Arguably, a very similar (maybe even closer) trajectory occurred with the HomePod. The HomePod mini supplanted the full sized HomePod until the 2nd gen eventually came out.
How often do people talk about the Mac Studio or the Mac Pro?
It's a tech demo in search of a killer app. Tim's folly.
The real competition would be the Meta Quest Pro, not the Quest 3. At $1500, it would leave even less room for the Quest Pro at $1000. Button up the premium market, let Meta compete in the low end (until Apple eventually can deliver a Vision headset for the sub-$800 market).
Considering that it sold fewer units than the iPhone mini (and those were panned as a failure by a lot of people), totally unsurprised.
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Has it occurred to you that this product is still only months old in the hands of developers and consumers? I’m not going to claim it’s perfect but ironing out software and firmware is what excels at. How many billions has meta dumped into their vision of the future; one that is still inferior to VP in many respects- even after many iterations and “high end prototypes.” There are plenty of ways that this could still garner a significant adaptation rate, and meet all your armchair analysis criteria going forward.
This is a new tech that wasn’t just a whimsical decision by
1. It’s going improve incrementally. Like all Apple products do.
2. The manufacturing processes will only get cheaper and more refined over time.
3. Developers and will expand on many things im certain the other armchair analysts here find lacking as time passes.
It certainly doesn't help that Apple has completely abandoned and sometimes even antagonized its developer community in recent years. Man, early iPhone/iPad indie apps made such a difference.
I know you see my signature. I’ve got nearly every recently released Apple device, including Hermes Apple Watch.
Statements like yours are baseless and ignore reality that the device isn’t selling and the headline states they had to stop development of Vision Pro 2 because my opinion mirrors what many others feel. The value does not match the feature set.
Apple 2e could do incredible tasks for its time. It offered value for the money. So it was worth the premium cost
There are VR headsets out there that do what the VP does for 10x less.
No need to be rude or take it personally. The Vision Pro is a failed device.
Every failed device has its loyalist like you, who will defend it to your last breath. But the story always ends the same, being cancelled and the loyalist become sentimental.
Not sure who needs to hear this (again)..
AVP is not the iPhone
It's not even remotely similar, nor is Apple leadership at this time
Let's please stop even mentioning comparisons to the iPhone, its launch and subsequent changes and price adjustments, etc
AVP is not the iPhone
It's not even remotely similar, nor is Apple leadership at this time
Let's please stop even mentioning comparisons to the iPhone, its launch and subsequent changes and price adjustments, etc
This will be the next Newton. I'm calling it.
Exactly this. Well said. In a thread that is so full of negativity yet. I would rather did this than do nothing and never react forward again. One thing is for certain, there will never be a lack of people smarter than the executives at . Almost everyone here seems to be hot and ready to succeed Tim Cook and make it all work properly.
Actually, every product Apple releases has its chorus of doomsayers, and it’s rare that Apple fails at a product. And rarely do those doomsayers recognize they were wrong.
None of which says anything about the AVP.
Perhaps you should define what people can and can’t say or discuss prior to anyone posting anything. Would that make it all better for you?
Is anyone really dumb enough to believe that Apple would tell a supplier that they have suspended development of a product that is supposedly years out? The team that was/is working on Vision Pro will also be working on a non-Pro version, would they not? Any upgrade to Vision Pro near term would be in the processor, so what need would there be for a whole team just focused on the Pro model?
There are a lot of options in between:
"release a half baked product with no mass market appeal"
and
"never react forward again"
People can say anything they want!
Comparisons to the iPhone, however, are inaccurate
It is ground that has been covered -- a lot -- in the previous months, so I won't rehash it here.
I think the product is great. I think they just need to be at the $2499 price point for the Pro and $1999 for regular.