Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

[lazyrighteye]

While it's too bad they have to pause dev on Vision Pro, it is an absolute no-brainer that they get a much more reasonably priced offering in-market asap - IF the platform stands any chance of evolving. The current price-point-to-usage ratio is not yet in the user's favor.

 

[BradGD]

Vision is on life support.

They should focus on making iPadOS more Mac-like, in terms of file management (format disks eject disks), window management (free form window management with more than 4 windows on any given ‘stage’, with the traffic lights 🚥 for window control. Also window snapping like what they just brought to sequoia. Mission Control as well for finding open windows. ), virtualization (run macOS or windows or Linux from iPad).

With the m4 chip, a more capable iPadOS would likely spur more sales at this particular point in time than another vision device. There’s a lot of pent up demand for a more capable iPadOS.

Buy a Mac.

 

[thmsnt]

Whenever the tech can be distilled into a pair of sunglasses, count me in!

 

[CWallace]

Honestly it makes sense to me. I don't see what they can add to AVP2 in the near future (24 months) that would make it appreciably better than what AVP1 offers. Instead, putting the focus on lowering the price of the technology in general will help increase adoption which in turn will increase application support, helping contribute to a "virtuous cycle" for Apple Vision as a product family.

 

[t0rqx]

failed product as it is now, the forum members knew this even before it was created.

 

[Thunderstrike76]

It's not atypical for dramatic strategical changes to happen like this. The price needs to be dropped fast for adoption to become mainstream. Apple did the same with the iPhone (1st generation) and iPhone 3G.

iPhone (1st generation)'s price was dropped within months. https://www.macrumors.com/2007/09/05/8gb-iphone-price-drop-4gb-iphone-discontinued/

And iPhone 3G started at $199. A lot of upgrades were left out for it to focus dropping the price.

What upgrades were left out that you are referring to?

 

[vertsix]

Apple didn’t drop the price though. Networks started subsidizing the iPhone to get them locked into 2 yr contracts.

That's correct but the customers saw "savings" (not necessarily - just lower upfront cost), which was effective at increasing adoption.

 

[wonderings]

The future of this is with cheaper prices. Even at $1500 that is expensive, though much easier to stomach then the price of the Vision Pro. Is it still too expensive though when you have the Quest 3 which has great features, good screens and WAY more to do in VR then Apple has. Apple is generally good at recreating a category and making it wanted by the masses. I don't think they have proven that with the Vision Pro yet. The price for the Vision Pro is obscene though for such a limited device.

 

[maxoakland]

Fewer features? The only feature I can think of that’s unnecessary is the weird external eye screen

 

[ThirteenXIII]

this product will not last long. they can at least say they accomplished getting it to market, making a very cool and high quality like experience but I just dont foresee this being a heavily consumed product that they can market and offer to everyone (as they try with the rest of their lineup). this is definitely an appliance for those doing specific types of tasks (manufacturing, medical, etc).

 

[vertsix]

What upgrades were left out that you are referring to?

CPU upgrade for one. They wanted to make it faster as soon as possible. iPhone 3G has the same CPU as the 1st-generation iPhone.

 

[t0rqx]

I don’t believe that at all. Apple would not cancel a project like this just after launching the first gen product. I’m sure that they will even release a cheaper version along with the successor of the current one.

Apple Car? HomePod? AirPower?

 

[WarmWinterHat]

It's not atypical for dramatic strategical changes to happen like this. The price needs to be dropped fast for adoption to become mainstream. Apple did the same with the iPhone (1st generation) and iPhone 3G.

iPhone (1st generation)'s price was dropped within months. https://www.macrumors.com/2007/09/05/8gb-iphone-price-drop-4gb-iphone-discontinued/

And iPhone 3G started at $199. A lot of upgrades were left out for it to focus dropping the price.

The original iPhone was non-subsidized until a few months into it's cycle by AT&T (Cingulair). The iPhone 3g was subsidized at launch, with an off-contract price of $499 or $549, which is the same starting price as the original iPhone.

People rarely paid for their phones outright at the time because on-contract and off-contract bills were the same.

 

[goonie4life9]

I thought this was the dawn of the era of spatial computing?

 

[jz0309]

An as believable rumor as an Apple car hitting the road in 2026 or whatever…

 

[vertsix]

I think in some time we'll see news of Apple scraping the entire Vision product line... Horrible product unless they can make the cheaper model less than $1500

Have you used it? If you dig through my profile, I've called it a meme, laughed about it and was a total non-believer. But then I used it. It's an amazing device and have had the most incredible experiences with technology with it.

 

[User 6502]

I am not surprised. It was clear for a while this was only going to flop. Finally Apple seems to be coming to terms with it. It is too expensive, worse than cheaper alternatives in many ways, it doesn’t solve any real problem or have any real application. It is just a pointless product. Making it cheaper won’t help much unless they solve the other issues too, but I doubt they will. They’ll probably just remove the creepy outward looking display, cheapen out on the inner displays and price it at $999 or $1499 and call it a day. In which case jt will still flop.

 

[coffeemilktea]

At last, maybe I'll soon be able to browse MacRumors on an Apple Vision SE! 🤪

 

[cpnotebook80]

There are many concerning problems affecting folks today like high cost of living, jobs, weather related events, and to splurge close to 4k-5k in some countries for something that is not going promote the value of the device in the long term is going to relegate the AVP into the back burner unless cheaper model comes out but even then, it's a long shot. I have the quest 3 and yes i used it and enjoyed it, but i don't use it everyday but i can justify the second hand used price($400) i paid for it. I was looking forward to the AVP but from the US reviews, i'm not interested but would try one in the apple store for fun. Even developers are slow in getting worthwhile apps up there. AI is definitely going to be the driving force for now and see how software will change it.

 

[miiwtoo]

current model will be the cheaper model bravo,

 

[JoshuaBru]

The future of computing didn’t last very long

 

[Mr_Ed]

😐
This is my shocked face.

A solution in search of a problem.

 

[ghanwani]

Hopefully they refocus the team on figuring out how to put a knob to disable temporal dithering in iOS and macOS and eventually build displays similar to TCL's NXTPAPER.

 

[TigerNike23]

Yup, this was on my 2024 bingo card.

Same.

 

[dumastudetto]

$2999 is the sweet spot.