Honestly who cares? I’ve worn my on long haul flights. I couldn’t care less what people think while they watch movies on their ****** airplane microsceen.
But the reality is most people are interested and ask what it’s like.
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Discontinued M2 Vision Pro Not Available for Trade-In
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But the reality is most people are interested and ask what it’s like.
The dozens of people who bought it must be devastated.
Also: another Exhibit item for not buying any Gen 1 Apple product
Also: another Exhibit item for not buying any Gen 1 Apple product
I don't see any outrage so far but a lot of laughing as in "haha this is not a joke, right?"
Reddit users claim the Trade-In program is coming (per chats with Apple reps).
Good to see, assuming it's true.
I’m sure all 5 owners of the first gen version are furious with this news.
On the bright side, maybe you don't get to see people laughing if those big windows you put up are blocking the view.
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Or any developer that is developing an AVP app.
Good one!
However, it may benefit Apple to offer some trade-in value for upgraders, even if it has little real value and cannot be resold for much. It would essentially be a loyalty discount for upgraders. Apple would not be doing this out of kindness, but because it is better to sell another vision pro to an upgrader for a reduced price, than not sell it at all.
I bet this goes on with iPhone trade-in values already, which often seem overly generous to me. It encourages people to upgrade more often.
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Just for upgraders to another AVP or for anyone who owns one and just wants to trade it in and get out?
I'm wondering whether Apple will resell these refurbished ones for a very steep discount (like 50% off) to attract new customers to the platform or if they'll do their usual 10-20% discount over new.
They functionally do. By the time I put 1 TB storage in my OG AVP, got Zeiss prescription lenses, a second battery, case, and third party over-the-head strap (Belkin), I ended up forking over nearly $5K for it.
I love it, but there is no way I'll be spending the $$$ to get a faster one, even if there WERE a trade-in path. No trade-in makes assurance doubly sure. No way, Jose.
…You don’t get much of a mainstream pulse of a product based on a product not meant for most people.
Mainstream sale numbers are NOT the success metric for the Vision Pro, Pro Display XDR, Mac Studio, and more.
More able to trickle down their tech at out of reach prices to an eventual mainstream product like the XDR screen tech on all flagship prosumer products with a screen is more of their idea of success.
Vision Pro’s takeaways and experience making a good spatial computing product with minimal compromises is invaluable towards making mainstream option for engineers and designers rather than doing the opposite.
Even game devs are doing this.
Mainstream / budget buyers feel a type of way waiting, but the world doesn’t always revolve around them (look at the GPU market). They’ll live.
You think Porsche Teycan buyers give a pulse of the overall EV Sedan market? You think Nvidia 5090 buyers give a pulse of what budget GPU gamers decide to settle with (some desperate to play on anything that boots up an operating system)?
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Dumb for you perhaps which is fine: The most productive way to use a and iPad apps on-the-go is a Vision Pro with its 5K2K and spatial capabilities.
You cannot multi-task or be able to privately compute or watch 3D movies better than a Vision Pro within Apple’s ecosystem and most traditional hardware ecosystems.