Don't Lose Your $3,500 Apple Vision Pro, You Can't Track Its Location

[NT1440]

Why does it always come back to this for you? Anyone who doesn’t buy into the concept is somehow either too poor to buy it or too ignorant. Have you considered that when weighing the known pros and cons of the device we’ve decided it’s a con? Have you ever considered that being an Apple fan doesn’t mean you’re required to fall over backwards in ecstasy over any and every product Apple foists off?



The Apple Watch has appeal for a certain kind of person. Mostly people who were wearing a Fitbit before and wanted better Apple ecosystem integration. But it is a poor substitution for a $20 quartz watch when it comes to telling the time and as a fashion accessory (which is what watches have become for most people,) in particular finely made mechanical watches, it’s an ugly, boring wrist toy that many have absolutely no use for.

Here. I’ll save you some time: “You just can’t afford one and you don’t get why it’s so awesome.”

Can you please elaborate on the bolded?

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[dumastudetto]

I already lost my Vision Pro, but turns out it was still strapped to my head.

 

[NT1440]

I remember some absolutely epic parties with the very first iPod

Girls at the party were just loving it -- everyone was marveled by being able to pull up "any song they wanted" (limited by what I had on it of course) and it was drop dead simple and understandable -- to anyone, out of the gate.

I remember reading quite a bit about SJ’s insistence to UI engineers that you HAD to get where you were going in no more than 3 (4?) clicks. Great UI design there.

 

[NT1440]

Vision Pro is a half baked device in many ways. They could fit 30000Mah battery in that battery case, but they’ve preferred 3000. The same about adding AirTag, they could add it easily but they didn’t do it. What did they think of when they were working on it ?🤔😳

…you wouldn’t be able to travel on planes with it if the battery capacity was that high.

There’s like…laws and rules in the real world that need to be considered.

 

[MarkNewton2023]

Let us hope Apple will set location track on future Vision Pro operating system so no AirTag is needed like other Apple devices. Keep calm and be hopeful with happiness. 😊 Life is too short to be unhappy on anything.😊

 

[AgentElliot007]

Utterly and completely absurd. The inconsistent and miss particularly on a device of this price is yet another glaring example of how disjointed and lost Apple is without strong product leadership from the top.

 

[scrapesleon]

Tomorrow technology today with no tracking typical Apple

 

[NT1440]

Teeth gnashing and proclamation of leadership incompetence from up high…over Find My.

There’s a reason I log off the internet each day and work on things. You guys take hyperbole to grand heights.

Who here, who WOULD actually purchase it, has decided not to because of *this*.

Get some perspective people, touch grass.

Will you all be celebrating with your friends and family when a friggin firmware update brings it?

 

[TKSX]

Nah. They will put it in the vision pro 2, just like what happened to the first ipad where they didn't include a camera.

 

[makitango]

I find this comment delightfully ironic. First, criticize others, next trash the product and demonstrate not understanding why anyone would like it.

1) Criticizing others is somehow bad?
2) Trashing the product if it is trash is not wrong
3) They can understand why people would like it but the price making it unlikable plays a role, too. Plus no one knows who here is (not) a paid actor so finding genuine opinions is hard

Also, the numbers are off considering that Apple employees are buying it at their normal 27% discount plus their bi-yearly $500 discount. You would have significantly different preorder numbers if all people had to buy it at retail price.

 

[Tofupunch]

if you're on a plane, that means wearing it while you get up to use the lavatory

 

[Antoniosmalakia]

I am not thrilled at its omission, but it would seem hard to misplace something as big as a APV. and a removable battery would be no good against a thief, they would just take it out. an on board battery is something more to go wrong. I can see how they came to this conclusion in gen 1.

That’s hardly the point. What if someone snatches it from you?

You’ve literally got no chance of finding it!

 

[NT1440]

if you're on a plane, that means wearing it while you get up to use the lavatory

Take it off? Put it in your bag?

Do any of you travel with things?

 

[macduke]

It just keeps getting better...

 

[G5isAlive]

That’s hardly the point. What if someone snatches it from you?

You’ve literally got no chance of finding it!

um...so I will repeat... a replicable battery to power a tracker is USELESS if someone snatches it from you, the first thing the thief will do is remove the battery.

 

[spazzcat]

And that’s what I’m fed up with. It’s tedious, and kinda pathetic. None of the other tech sites seem to be particularly interested - says a lot! 🤣

I mean, this is an Apple tech site.

 

[Jony Ive]

What's the point of airtag? A thief will remove it in 1 second

 

[Antoniosmalakia]

um...so I will repeat... a replicable battery to power a tracker is USELESS if someone snatches it from you, the first thing the thief will do is remove the battery.

It’s the lack of tracking hardware that’s the issue, not the lack of battery.

You have to plug a battery into it for it to actually work, at which point the device would have the opportunity to report “home”.

Complete oversight!

 

[Will Tisdale 🎗]

I mean, this is an Apple tech site.

Except the posts about this device are mostly clickbait crap.

 

[wdeannick]

I will go the rest of my life without putting one on. #goals

 

[Kierkegaarden]

It's unclear why the Vision Pro does not support Find My location tracking, but the headset lacking a built-in battery and GPS could be contributing factors.

Could be contributing factors? How could it possibly work otherwise?

 

[makitango]

It's unclear why the Vision Pro does not support Find My location tracking, but the headset lacking a built-in battery and GPS could be contributing factors.

Could be contributing factors? How could it possibly work otherwise?

I think the iMac also has FindMy functionality. A battery is not required as it can just call home the next time it gets started.

 

[citysnaps]

What if someone snatches it from you?

What if the Sun doesn't "rise" tomorrow morning?

I've never had anything snatched from me. If that's a regular occurrence for you, I recommend not purchasing AVP.

 

[hans1972]

Wait. So per the below article, the headset will sync your data while still plugged in and not in use, but Find My was not included? WTF

It's very hard when the device doesn't have a battery.

The radios can't be on since there is no power.

 

[hans1972]

That’s a pretty big omission. Why does apple always wait until launch day to disclose all the nasty little disclosures? There is always something.

How should it support Find My when the device doesn't have a battery and thus no power to turn on the radios?