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No, they won't. I 100% guarantee the thing won't even work in 20 years due to the battery being cooked and most likely won't have part availability. No one is going to pay a ton of money for a dead first gen Vision Pro. Please stop coping for the fools who bought this dumb thing.
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.
 
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Can’t wait to order the new unit and accept zero trade-in value or option from Apple for being the beta testers or gen 1. Winning!
 
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.
Yeah it would make sense what you have typed however you can trade in pretty much anything electronic with apple after a year I believe of it coming out
 
I usually recommend people sell their old tech privately anyway, but this is a weird one. I'm curious what the aftermarket looks like for these. I would imagine in most areas they would be a huge struggle to sell privately. Larger urban areas would likely still be relatively quick, but I wonder at what kind of price point people would be willing to make a deal. Not that I would ever buy one to begin with, but even less so if I'm not able to sell it later.
 
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I usually recommend people sell their old tech privately anyway, but this is a weird one. I'm curious what the aftermarket looks like for these. I would imagine in most areas they would be a huge struggle to sell privately. Larger urban areas would likely still be relatively quick, but I wonder at what kind of price point people would be willing to make a deal. Not that I would ever buy one to begin with, but even less so if I'm not able to sell it later.
It’s about optics probably for apple
Because if you can purchase one previously owned on the official website then it probably doesn’t look good
But if you can sell them on 3rd party sites & places then out of sight out of mind springs to mind
 
I am surprised they didn't do their usual thing…offer money on a trade-in then when they receive it make up some excuse why the value is actually 0 and offer to recycle it or send it back.

-kp
And keep the charger like wtf?!
 
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.
Nice to read that you are loving your AVP :cool:

I'm looking to buy a 1tb M5 for myself, need to store demo again and see if I need inserts or not. Didn't use any on the demo and it looked good. I only use reading glasses and when using AVP the illusion is that everything you look at seems to be a few feet away.

The movie watching experience and the ultrawide Mac mirror display are amazing features IMHO.

As for when the product comes to end of life when something better (glasses?) comes along I think due to the lower sales volumes compared to iPad, iPhone etc. its definitely a product to box up and leave for a few decades ..... current rrp might seem like a steal at that point
 
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