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Apple Vision Pro Just Got Even More Expensive
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I never root for products to fail, but this is the one exception
Madmic23
macrumors 6502a
What are they even thinking with this one? Are they even still manufacturing the Vision Pro? I would almost think they're just sitting on a warehouse full of inventory.
This is going to be terrible news for the two people that buy them in the next six months.
500,000+ AVPs have been sold.
AVP 2 is on par with iOS 26 as Apple's worst management decisions in recent years.
AVP 2 will be dead in 4 months.
AVP 2 will be dead in 4 months.
Who cares, AVP 2 will be discontinued shortly.
Sallah
macrumors member
Looks like the people that didn’t get an AVP have an even worse case of sour grapes.
Glad I got my AVP M5 earlier this year. Now I guess I need to pay a little more for another one. 😀
Glad I got my AVP M5 earlier this year. Now I guess I need to pay a little more for another one. 😀
It's not a matter of caring. Rather, being accurate.
To be accurate the AVP total sales were estimated between 400,000 and 500,000 if you want to get technical.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Quite the opposite, as said so many times, this is a solution in search of a problem to solve. There's more negatives, then positives with the AVP, not even considering the price.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
Right?
I wish I wasn't so sad and poor and I could afford one.
Poor me. (sad music plays)
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sw1tcher
macrumors 604
... and of that, 499,997+ were returned. 😂
The Game 161
macrumors Nehalem
More like 500,000 to 600,000.
But I get it. Tired and hackneyed come-backs ("All three of them") apparently still amuse some people.
Don't think Vision Pro was selling in huge numbers in the past. Would have been best if the pricing remained the same!
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
You should count the posts again.
The minority is those defending AVP, not the inverse.
Make up whatever numbers you want. The product is still going into a landfill near you.
Not defending AVP at all. I don't need one. Just commenting on the number that have been sold.
I get it, though. Slagging on Apple every day of the year apparently feels good to some people.
Yeh, because the demand is so high 😂
Apple today raised the price of the Vision Pro to $3,699, up from $3,499, as part of a sweeping round of price increases across its lineup.
The change came after Apple's online store was briefly taken offline earlier today and brought back up with new pricing across the HomePod mini, HomePod, Apple TV, iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, iPad Pro, MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, both Mac Studio configurations, and Vision Pro. The iPhone, AirPods, Studio Display, and accessories such as the Apple Pencil were seemingly the only product lines left untouched.
No Apple product carries more baggage around its price tag than Vision Pro. The headset launched in February 2024 at $3,499 for the base 256GB configuration, a figure that was widely flagged at the time as a major barrier to mainstream adoption. Today's increase pushes the entry price to $3,699, with the 512GB and 1TB configurations similarly rising in step to $3,899 and $4,199.
A product like the MacBook Air going up by $200 is naturally an unwelcome change for consumers, but it's a shift on a product with an enormous addressable market. The Vision Pro was already priced roughly seven times higher than Meta's $499.99 Quest 3, and reviewers and analysts have repeatedly pointed to that gap as the headset's defining weakness. the Vision Pro's share of the XR market is estimated to be around 5%, against roughly 75% for Meta, a split that reflects just how badly the price has limited Vision Pro's reach relative to its technical ambitions.
When the company refreshed Vision Pro with an M5 chip and a new Dual Knit Band in October 2025, it kept the $3,499 starting price exactly where it was.
The increase is tied to a broader cost problem for the technology industry. Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal last week that price increases across Apple's lineup had become "unavoidable" because of the soaring cost of memory and storage chips.
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Agent007
macrumors 6502a
lol "or alive". No, Vision Pro is dead bro.
The way people tiptoe through the tulips with these trillion-dollar megacorps is genuinely dystopian.
Sallah
macrumors member
There is not, cut the bs. People can repeat the same bs, and it’s still bs. AVP is the only device that Apple has released recently that brought the “magic” back to its products. Everything else is the same ‘ol same ‘ol.
Just for the movie experience ALONE, it’s worth it. Having to recreate the environment AVP does for movies, you’d have to spend probably close to $1M, and it STILL wouldn’t be the same. Instead, people will pretend their garbage little “home theater” comes even close to it. After having a friend demo it, his question was, “why would you even go to a theater if you had these.” My answer, “exactly, I don’t.”
That is just the movie experience. It is LEAGUES better than the AR/VR competition.
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maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
The only magic that is happening is people believing its a successful product.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
Yeah, if you like watching movies by yourself with a scuba mask on I guess.
I watch movies with other people known as my "friends & family".
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Perfect wording, because I tend to watch movies with family, friends, etc. With the AVP you only get to watch a movie ALONE
And spending 4,000 dollars just to watch movies is ludicrous