No it isn’t, they are completely different products. People listen to music in public, you are not wearing a vision pro in public.
Executives took Vision Pro home and used it, Tim Cook himself uses it.
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No it isn’t, they are completely different products. People listen to music in public, you are not wearing a vision pro in public.
Executives took Vision Pro home and used it, Tim Cook himself uses it.
The executives of the company that make it won’t be shown wearing it. Rationalize it away all you like, but it’s a massive red flag.
Listen to yourself.
They’re trying to sell it. They want people to wear it. But THEY won’t put it on when a camera is around. If you can’t see why that’s problematic that’s on you, not me.
Or maybe they buy things (often foolishly) because they like them....
It's dumb to think that executives and employees wont be shown wearing it as a way to promote the device.
Of course, want guesstimate numbers at call not actual order numbers. Can kick down road till next quarter and hopefully other products could cover if any bad news.
Then why haven’t they done it? Are they “dumb” or is it that they know the headset looks stupid and that they’ll damage sales if they wear it for people to mock?
No executives were walking around with the iPhone between the original tease and the actual keynote launch. There were press releases and information drops but none were shown in the wild. What matters is after the actual launch.
Besides, it’s an attractive and nicely designed VR headset. you’re acting like no one knows what it looks like just because there aren’t executives wearing it.
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iPhone doesn’t make you look like a sad dork and your assertion that no Apple executive was seen with one before the keynote is a non-point. No one saw Vision Pro before the keynote either… and since then no Apple executive had been shown wearing one. Because they don’t want to get mocked for how stupid it looks.
The waiting moment for all interested to get Vision Pro is getting close to end. Keep calm, no worries of long time waiting and be happy when the time arrives! 😊
Purely subjective statement.
Apple had an iPhone reveal ketynote around half a year before the iPhone release keynote. No executives were shown holding the iPhone in the wild between those two events… just like the AV. So if this means that Apple is ashamed of the AV’s design, they were also ashamed of the iPhone’s design.
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There are no goggles that looks good. At least none that can house an array of sensors.
Apple could have gone with more of a helmet concept, and jazzed up the looks (similar to skateboarders or bicyclists), but I guess selling a helmet display would have been harder.
Except it isn’t. Again, no Apple executive has been photographed actually wearing it. That’s a red flag.
So? Proves nothing. There’s a reason the Apple team won’t wear it. It looks dumb and they’ll get flooded with negative memes.
No apple executive was photographed with the iPhone before its launch announcement. What a red flag.
It proves your theory is incorrect.
Not the same. iPhone doesn’t go on your face.
No it doesn’t, but your response strongly suggests you aren’t really thinking rationally and objectively about it. If Apple was confident it looked cool they’d have been shown wearing it by now. But they won’t because they know it looks dumb and mockable.
Stunning and accurate observation.
Well one of us isn’t using rational thought.
If the only reason why Apple hasn’t shown execs wearing the AV is due to fear of appearance based mockery, then there should have been no reason not to show photographs of Apple execs using the iPhone, which as you correctly pointed out does not go on your face, in the wild prior to launch.
The iPhone looked incredibly cool in 2007 so the internet should have been plastered with photos of Apple execs using, or at the very least holding it prior to launch…but it wasn’t.
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That of course was a story two days ago on Business Insider, that the NY Post ran, that Gurman picked up on... etc.
The claim is an old one, such as this from last June: Why doesn’t Tim Cook wear Vision Pro in public? To avoid becoming a meme!
I'm not sure it is really significant, though. The device has clearly been through many design revisions, with the latest version looking different than the one in the videos created just a few months before.
After it is launched, then if Cook et. al. are not seen wearing one the argument will be stronger.
I don't think it looks "dumb", any more than any other type of human headdress.
However, I do think Apple should have gone with some designer labels and have optional designer-specific looks.
Your iPhone analogy is going nowhere. There’s no comparison between the two products. That argument is a reach at best.
Look, I get you don’t want to admit it, but the device is not cool looking and it’s very obvious why none of Apple’s team will be seen wearing it.
It may be a story that got picked up recently but if you’ve read anything I’ve written about the device over the last few months you’ll see that I’ve brought this up several times before and LONG before whatever article just came out.
My analogy is accurate, you just don't want to admit it because you really dislike AV.
Since there were no concerns about appearance based mockery, which is the reason you suggest why there are no photos of execs using AV, why were no execs shown using the iPhone prior to launch?