That was the purpose of the avp I suppose. To make people think 1500-1800 is fine. I remember before avp and meta increased prices on quest 3 to 500. Many balked at that.
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That was the purpose of the avp I suppose. To make people think 1500-1800 is fine. I remember before avp and meta increased prices on quest 3 to 500. Many balked at that.
Not to mention the avp cost is 2k in mats. Apple sells for 3500 in markup.
To sell this for 1500 will take some imagination.
I live alone and love it. If i had a family it would be the perfect device to watch the stuff i want to watch on a big screen with great sound after the kids went to bed or what not
I’m sure the avp buyers are happy doing what it does. Or they’d have return it.
Nope. Not even interested. If I was interested in VR I'd have the Meta Quest of some manner. The Quest 2 current starting price is $199. Seriously. Apple isn't even in the same universe. I work for an all Mac school district so I have everything Apple. Nobody here is even curious about the Vision Pro.
Meta is getting killed you mean. It’s like our national debt. Meta has their own version.
And at the other end of that spectrum? People who appear to be defending and justifying their purchase of a pointless device, not one of which has answered that "use-case" question. So far, all I've seen is "watch movies" -- for $3,500.
I get it. If I just wasted $3,500 and a bunch of people on the internet were dogging what I'd bought, I'd probably go full ad hominem on them, too, with some BS psychoanalysis thrown in for good measure.
lolol, c'mon man...
I mean it is more than price, it is clunky looking, too large, uncomfortable for extended amounts of time, and the external battery! How can they fix all of that and still have a low(er) price point? This isn't a product I (we) need, is it? iPhone single handily changed the entire ecosystem. And large part of it is the fact it fits in my pocket and it does all the things it does well. Yes at first it didn't even have 3G and copy and paste. But the form factor wasn't the issue.
Honestly I don't see why people think AR/VR is the future. They said VR was the future when I was a teen in the 90s...they said it will be like Star Trek....it hasn't really changed since. This isn't a game changer. Another way of looking at it, I was halfway to work before realising I left my iPhone behind. I made a u-turn to get it. If someone was travelling with their Vision Pro and left it in the house and they were in the car just outside, I don't think anyone will bother going back in.
Honestly I don't see why people think AR/VR is the future. They said VR was the future when I was a teen in the 90s...they said it will be like Star Trek....it hasn't really changed since. This isn't a game changer. Another way of looking at it, I was halfway to work before realising I left my iPhone behind. I made a u-turn to get it. If someone was travelling with their Vision Pro and left it in the house and they were in the car just outside, I don't think anyone will bother going back in.
Let me introduce you to HomePod.
Probably a similar lifecycle. Tried to make the fist gen too good and ended up pricing themselves out of the market. Introduce a cheaper model. Cancel the first gen. Reintroduce the expensive model, albeit a little bit worse.
Giant mountain of straw men that have little if anything to do with what I actually said? Not very convincing.
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So, not optimal in any realistic way.
Most people watch movies and shows together.
A big cinema screen is not the killer app for AVP.
Exactly this ^
It’s not a price thing
It simply isn’t something most people seem to want
Apple should have known this
It was a massive whiff to release the AVP
I think it’s just a lack of imagination to see beyond what’s been shown to be sort of possible so far
It can be really hard to predict what might come along in tech
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I mean say what you want but it kind of was. 4k oled. Looked pretty amazing. Especially 3d and immersive.
I get what you’re saying but it doesn’t have to appeal to everyone. Just enough. And I think it does. Just not at 3500.
Throw in apples ecosystem and there’s definitely something there. But can apple find a path to profits at a price point people are more willing to pay is the question.
And can there be anything else besides video or bring your Mac virtual screen? Games is obvious. And since games make up most of apples app revenues it should be a bigger priority for them.
Hmmm, you kinda sound like a RAGE ADDICT! 😂
On one planet does ”no one want” VR? I’ve been dreaming of tech like this since i was a little kid and Vision Pro is by far my favorite gadget since the original iPhone.
They edited the title but it first referenced the cheaper alternative. It now implies the AVP is dead, which is absurd.
They have been listed by many users. I just listed many. The lazy response is no one has ever bought one and there are no use cases. The addiction to complaining is too strong.
vision is basically done for. I kept my unit after return window but it doenst actually do anything other than to watch movies/tv. Product genius really did die along with Jobs.
I understand that your schtick is to make statements and then deny you ever said that, but tiring as you try to make it, you did say it. You said the general consensus is that the AVP is failing and used the comments on MR as proof.
It does, but it’s your choice not to use it. Strange you would pay $3500 for a device you don’t like. The return window was well marked.
And once again, you don’t like it, so it’s dead as a product line. 😂