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Discontinued M2 Vision Pro Not Available for Trade-In

Got a marketing email from Apple this morning, this perhaps is the only reason to buy one.

I have a 8K2K 57" Samsung monitor that I love sitting in my home office, and this would be a nice substitute when on the road, but it costs way more than the 57" monitor.
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chars1ub0w said:
Got a marketing email from Apple this morning, this perhaps is the only reason to buy one.

I have a 8K2K 57" Samsung monitor that I love sitting in my home office, and this would be a nice substitute when on the road, but it costs way more than the 57" monitor.
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You can do this with a projector in a dark room for ~1000, or you can just buy a large TV, even an 8K TV, for less than 3500.
 
maflynn said:
Apple logic - if you can afford a 3,500 VR headset that doesn't do much of anything, you can afford to buy a second one that does nothing faster :p
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It isn't Apple who is lacking logic.

All the customers who bough a Vision Pro who didn't like it and the price was a "budget stretcvh" would have sold it. There are more than a few folks who a 'former' Vision Pro owners now. Those folks won't benefit at all from a trade-in to Apple since they have nothing to trade-in.

Apple trying to entirce folks who bought a VP second hard is rubbish. There is little upside in Apple doing that. Those folks have already proven they are extremely willing to enage the second hand market and if they want to sell , then that's where they will probably want to go.

Which gets to the to more primary point in that what market is Apple enabling here???? The secondary market for Vision Pro already exists. Apple paying super low prices for a VP is going to help how. Apple is no where near being the market leader at paying the best prices for take used hardware. The market here is relatively extremely small and Apple is going to pay some of the most uncompetitive prices possible. Why would they be jumping up and down to get into that market?

Selling the VP new is on the verge to being a 'too small' market for Apple to operate in. You think the even smaller used market for an already too small market is even more enticing to them? Probably not.

two or three years from not when more folks are 'aging out' of the VP then maybe Apple will be interested (***), but they didn't even start selling these more than a couple years ago. ( after more time it is more as a recycling program thing. )

*** as in offer something that might resemble a decent price. They may try some very uncompetitive pricing before that in more than several months.
 
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poematik13 said:
You can do this with a projector in a dark room for ~1000, or you can just buy a large TV, even an 8K TV, for less than 3500.
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They won't have the PPI nor convenience of using multiple canvases (not even just the virtual display) spatially, privacy, and portability of this.

Portable 4K Dolby Vision monitors are $3000 for years before the Vision Pro existed
 
dantay said:
This really does tell you all you need to know, a minor refresh before the Vision Pro is quickly and unceremoniously retired.
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Hate to say it, but I agree with you. This was probably in the works soon after the original, and fully ready to go until the M5 could be dropped in. After this one, they will probably let it off into the sunset as they focus on the glasses, which are the thing that may actually be viable one day.
 
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Not that I would trade in my Vision Pro for seemingly no real upgrade, but Apple should have offered a trade in and given a 50% discount on the M5 version. People who bought the Vision Pro are likely the most loyal/vocal supporters and it would have been a nice gesture.
 
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TheColtr said:
Not that I would trade in my Vision Pro for seemingly no real upgrade, but Apple should have offered a trade in and given a 50% discount on the M5 version. People who bought the Vision Pro are likely the most loyal/vocal supporters and it would have been a nice gesture.
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What? Half off a product AND a trade in credit? Hahahahahahahahaha
 
poematik13 said:
You can do this with a projector in a dark room for ~1000, or you can just buy a large TV, even an 8K TV, for less than 3500.
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The person you responded to mentioned that the main reason is for when they're on the road. You're not lugging a large TV onto an airplane and carrying it everywhere you go. Imagine you want to use it in your hotel room, multiple places - like conference rooms, outdoor places like shelters - where you're on the road.

If you're making money and it's much more convenient, then it's a good solution. But not for most people.
 
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WU27f1xcCs said:
I genuinely don’t understand who the target market for this M5 version is. Does anyone know?
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I don't think there really is a target market now, they couldn't leave it on M2 and no refresh would be an embarrassing admission of defeat for a product they really wanted to be a hit over time and price cycle.

Too big, too heavy, too expensive and no killer apps.

Im sure they’ve learned some useful stuff from the exercise but it really is a pretty epic commercial failure.

I wish they’d moved forward with the car rather than this.
 
nfl46 said:
Yep, I won't be upgrading to Gen 2. I'll be sticking with my Gen 1.
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Curious to ask an owner such as yourself if the new head strap is of interest, since they’re compatible?

Basically I wonder if Apple will at least see some revenue from current users trying to improve the comfort.
 
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