Hopefully they allow ordering multiple.
Would like one for main home and another for summer home.
Would like one for main home and another for summer home.
Tough to say what the price will be until it comes out the market sets the demand. Generally speaking, in demand tech sells for double retail.Probably still Person 1, because they have enough not to play silly games like reselling for profit.
I use eBay a lot, and the seller fees plus shipping cut into a lot of the profit. A realistic selling price for a sold out Vision Pro might be $4500, of which eBay takes a $600+ cut, not including $50 shipping and materials, even if you bought without tax you’re only getting $350 in profit. If it sells for $4000, you’re losing money.
But even for $350, that’s about 5 hours total work PLUS risk. Not worth it in my opinion.
Assuming Apple's typical 35% margin on hardware:80K units @ $3,500 USD each = $280M.
400K units @ 3,500 USD each = $1.4B.
Something tells me it's still going to sell fast.
I'm still wondering how much it cost to produce.
Only a $1,000 markup? Have you considered demand from the very rich world wide? Remember when the iPhone was hard to get in China and there would be a line of scalpers on release day lined up? I could easily see that happening here.Probably still Person 1, because they have enough not to play silly games like reselling for profit.
I use eBay a lot, and the seller fees plus shipping cut into a lot of the profit. A realistic selling price for a sold out Vision Pro might be $4500, of which eBay takes a $600+ cut, not including $50 shipping and materials, even if you bought without tax you’re only getting $350 in profit. If it sells for $4000, you’re losing money.
But even for $350, that’s about 5 hours total work PLUS risk. Not worth it in my opinion.
OMG. If only I could say what I really want to say. How sad that this kind of thinking actually exists. I wouldn't have believed it until I started reading this site. Now I actually expect it.Hopefully all 80,000 are bought by scalpers/resellers. Then we can see who really wants it! 🤣🤣🤣
For those with prescription lenses (AVP won't fit over glasses), the race will be to see which lasts longer: your current lens Rx vs the battery.To be fair, money spent on memories is better spent. The child will grow up and always remember that concert, but the AVP is going to be an outdated piece of tech in a few years.
OMG. If only I could say what I really want to say. How sad that this kind of thinking actually exists. I wouldn't have believed it until I started reading this site. Now I actually expect it.
Nearsightedness (myopia) gradually reverses itself later in life, so your prescription gets weaker and weaker. And of course by then we’re wearing expensive progressive lenses (unless you choose to have different pairs for reading and distance). I’ve gone back to wearing one contact lens for distance to save money.For those with prescription lenses (AVP won't fit over glasses), the race will be to see which lasts longer: your current lens Rx vs the battery.
The battery life on the AVP is so poor, you can't even watch Avatar 2 or Oppenheimer in one sitting!
Something tells me your wife has a bigger say in this than your wallet?I have plenty of interest… by my wallet and wife both say "oh hell no!!"
Assuming you buy the base model and you end up paying ebay an 18% commission you would have to sell the AVP for $4,300 just to break even, not factoring in sales tax. It's a speculative gamble, but it could pay off. Good Luck!I have no interest in this product. But I want to buy it so I can hopefully flip it on eBay for a lot more. Should I do it?
There is also some Colleges out there that want them.I know many iOS app developers who intend to get one to assist in migrating their apps to visionOS.
You will also have people with plenty of disposable income who will want to dispose it on the device.
I had no interest in the gen 1 Apple Watch. I had no interest in the first iPad, even though I tuned in for the livestream of Steve introducing it. I am literally praying I can be fast enough to pre-order a vision pro next Friday morning. Truly grateful that so many people don't seem to want one because the initial production numbers seem unreasonably low...Who is actually buying this?
I have no interest.
I would not buy V.1 of any (Apple) Product... (ref: iPhone, iPad, Watch etc.) 'Probably wait for V.3 of this product (too!)
The first Apple Watch was pushing technology to the limits. The processors and batteries were nearly not enough. They had to run the apps on the phone and project the results just to get it working in the series 0. It was absolutely an experiment. Once they had watches that could run apps directly, Apple tied several different kinds of apps on them. So did third parties. Some use cases didn’t pan out and others turned out to be particularly well suited. Apple new notifications would be a big feature of the Watch, but no one was sure that health and fitness would be such important uses for the Watch.This is a misreading of the apple watch. They weren't experimenting. They totally misread the market and didnt understand the device. The first watch wasn't an experiment. They just had the wrong emphasis. They adapted. Apple isn't experimenting with AVP. They made a device that they think does everything they want and is feature complete. But they will rapidly adapt if they are wrong (or crash and burn or both).
What would you replace them with? They need that ~4K resolution per screen to be able to render the UI in enough detail. The screen cannot be larger to fit within the housing. That defines a pixel density that other screens don’t have. without it you would have fuzzy images with lots of screen-door effect.I gotta ask, do we really need Micro-OLED lenses? It's clear they're a major factor to why the headset is a nightmare to build and why it's so expensive, so why not just cut them for the eventual regular Apple Vision? That would slash the price by half and make it a lot easier to build.
You can be connected to a USB charger. You aren’t stuck on just the battery. Your limit is likely your bladder capacity, not the battery capacity.For those with prescription lenses (AVP won't fit over glasses), the race will be to see which lasts longer: your current lens Rx vs the battery.
The battery life on the AVP is so poor, you can't even watch Avatar 2 or Oppenheimer in one sitting!