People have found it can be turned into a decent hanging basket for plants. But it does leak quite a bit when you water it, hence its use as a scuba mask was quickly disregarded.
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Apple Vision Pro Launches in UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia
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Yes, because selling a product at zero profit makes total business sense.
It will not work as it require special lenses that after 20years is not made. The problem with this product as it stands now is that the second hand market is dead if you need special lenses to use it. You need to off-load the first generation before the enthusiast will hop on to the second generation. Just basic product development. Only way is to sell it back to Apple perhaps. This is Apple gold Apple Watch once again. 🤷🏼
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Although to be fair, the profit margin on PS4/5 games is probably a lot higher than the solitaire game on the AVP....
Who cares what it looks like? It’s a device you use at home… and it still looks better than all the competitors
It’s not for wearing out in public 🙄 and again it still looks better than any competitors device
Apple cares… they employ some of the best industrial design people in the world for such products.
If you don’t care what it looks like, why say it still looks better than all the competitors?
That's what everyone said when the first AirPods came out, now everyone and their mothers have them.
Every one has eye problems. 35% have 20:20 in the U.S.
…It's not an either-or. The target audience very likely has such things–except the Studio Display which is abysmal to the Vision Pro's screen (doesn't even have Dolby Vision HDR not anything close to > 1000 nits like the Vision Pro and literally ALL the other Apple prosumer devices with a screen)
by age 45 that's 85% of people
Dozens around the world are thrilled, I'm sure.
…The target audience would not get a Macbook Air; at minimum a iPad Pro. The Vision Pro is designed to be adjacent to the iPad Pro, Macbook Pro, Mac Studio, Mac Pro, and Pro Display XDR as well as the iPhone Pro (Dolby Vision HDR, > 1000 nits, and so on).
Unfortunately because of Meta and Microsoft bowing out of the prosumer XR spatial computing segment, the Vision Pro is essentially the only true option for prosumers at this time. That segment has been waiting for a good spatial computing option for a long time, and the Vision Pro delivers relative to what other manufacturers have tried by far.
Apple's prosumer hardware suite all by no coincidence have parity in premium HDR support without sacrifices for trivial and casual computing use cases such as gaming.
A portable Dolby Vision 4K 24" Display is $4000. Apple's Studio Display which cannot compete with Apple's prosumer optimized HDR panels is $2500 at minimum with standalone displays from other manufacturers typically $3000 and above.
With again Meta bowing out of the prosumer standalone headset market this headset gen (Quest Pro) with a product that didn't fulfill conventional prosumer baselines (not even HDR) in the first place, there isn't another option.
Tons of interested prosumer spatial computing headset owners would love more options and perhaps "better" options– myself included not tied to Apple's ecosystem having high-end PC and android devices as well–but there isn't another serious option for them other than the Vision Pro.
It's like non-prosumer GPU buyers scoffing at Nvidia's 4090 when AMD and Intel doesn't even give 4090 buyers another option.
What data are you basing that on?
Apple positions it as the future of computing. Not as a sidecar or accessory device. They envision you REPLACING your Mac with this. That’s what Apple’s marketing around it suggests.
It’s called a “loss leader” and companies do it all the time.
Cool. So now it can be a world-wide failure and not just a North American one