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!
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Discontinued M2 Vision Pro Not Available for Trade-In
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Yeah thats bad. Even my M1 mac studio got 1100 trade in credit for an M4 max mac studio.
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.
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
Nice to read that you are loving your AVP
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
Apple cancelled development work on their more mainstream headset due to the disappointing sales of the Vision Pro, so regardless of what they learned it was bad enough that they changed their future plans regarding “spatial computing”
I do think Porsche Taycan (correct spelling) buyers care that they experienced some of the highest first year EV depreciation on record regardless of how much money they may or may not have. I’m sure they also weren’t over the moon about the multiple recalls their vehicles had as regardless of wealth, it’s very inconvenient to have to keep returning your car to the dealership for non ota updates and hardware changes.
If you want to use automotive comparisons do a little research first.
I’m sorry you were triggered by my comment on the Vision Pro but your snarky use of wealth as a guide to reinforce your point (unsuccessfully) really does say a lot more about you than my comment does about the Vision Pro.
It was perfectly clear at the time - and priced as such - that this was essentially a Dev Kit in all but name. They did some minimal general marketing but otherwise it was obvious.
Some (though not many - i still remember those who predicted that they'd be back ordered for many months due to massive demand and small supplies from Sony) sucked up the hype and thought devs would be making many apps and jumped in but hey ho.. the market has spoken.
To expect Apple to accept trade ins for such a device is comical. And if there is a market out there for trading in then im sure others will offer it but meh.. i doubt the original VP will have retained much value
Some (though not many - i still remember those who predicted that they'd be back ordered for many months due to massive demand and small supplies from Sony) sucked up the hype and thought devs would be making many apps and jumped in but hey ho.. the market has spoken.
To expect Apple to accept trade ins for such a device is comical. And if there is a market out there for trading in then im sure others will offer it but meh.. i doubt the original VP will have retained much value
It’s more about wanting to drop some rage or bottled feelings somewhere online. Many aren’t having it any easy as of some years now.
The proof is in the tone, it’s not neutral or corporate driven like: “it would have been nice if Apple to…” instead it goes along the lines of mocking Apple or the users of AVP or both.
For some it’s on X/Instagram/Bluesky… and for the Apple enthusiast it will land here on MR. Granted that it’s very distasteful and makes the environment around here muddier.
Ultimately some call it out, “MR crowd always finding things to complain about” several have said.
Most comments are from people that don’t have an AVP, won’t ever have an AVP, don’t care about an AVP, some might not even have any single Apple product… but feel indignation or compelled to emit an opinion against this situation or to mock the buyers.
Surely the reason they don't mention trade in value is more to do with so few people globally having bought it?
Don't like having to juggle things off/on a device to prevent maxing out the storage so would need to go 512gb as a minimum ......by that point your ⚽⚽'s deep invested its "only" another £200 to max out to 1tb.......with possibly of many years before an update/refresh/the next evolution(glasses??) during that time you may find new use cases for AVP and be glad you spent the extra £200......just my thoughts 😎
Except that Apple’s offers are always extremely low and it would be insultingly low for such a pricey device, and I can’t imagine anyone on this forum complaining about that.🙄
I do find it reassuring that most of the forum members that actually own the AVP seem to have little issue with this. Those complaining most about it are the ones that would never buy an AVP anyway, as they seem to enjoy spending their time talking about how they never, ever think about the AVP.
I know some people who bought 1TB and 512GB models and they say they like to download larger movies. But I am rarely have time to watch more then 2 hours of a content in a row and I am fine with deleting cached movies and TV shows of the device. I am also do not planning to rip 4K 3D Blue-Ray disks. I am not planning to store my music library which is stored on Mac. Most of the time I am going to use the headset in Xcode which is not even installed on the device and will run on my 1TB MacBook Pro. So why I need an extra space? I mean £200 is not a small amount of money. I can get the official carrying case for this price.
I think Apple really doesn't want us to buy the OG M2 version. They want to raise baseline to M5 as soon as possible, with double RAM. If they accept trade-ins they will have to sell them as refurbs. Which means there will be some people buying the M2 version instead of M5.
I will be pedantic and point out that there actually are no 4K 3D Blu-ray discs, only because that fact annoys me, in that they never developed the format beyond 1080p. Another botched product introduction where they pushed unfinished tech out with oversized expectations and killed it just as the technology reached a point where it was finally appealing (passive 3D on my LG 4K OLED is still quite impressive and infinitely better than the active shutter glasses based first generation 3D Sony LCD I purchased initially.)
I use the AVP for work everyday so to me just a tool. If the trade in is "0" then there should be a deflation of the remaining version 1 devices which will create a good secondary market for repair and maintenance. Apple will still need to support with Apple Care.
I expect more adoption of folks using version 1 as a result of deflation. That would create a nice surge of development. Sort of like the path of the Newton.
I expect more adoption of folks using version 1 as a result of deflation. That would create a nice surge of development. Sort of like the path of the Newton.