Kuo: Low-Cost Apple Vision Pro Might Be Canceled

[t0rqx]

Cause it will not sell.

 

[klasma]

But is it carbon neutral?

Apple Vegan Pro?

 

[Graphikos]

I'm still firmly in camp "Take my money". I know its expensive. But an easy way Apple could drastically change the perception of its worth is to also make it act more like a Macbook Pro. If you could use the USB-C port to plug in a display, keyboard, mouse, etc., and use it like a computer as well as a headset then suddenly its way more justifiable. A good MBP costs $2500+. Seems like a win-win to me. This has an M2 and all hardware needed to also just act like a Mac.

 

[anshuvorty]

Guys, guys, this is all just a huge conspiracy!!!

Think about it:

• Apple "leaks" that they won't be making a "low-cost" Vision headset anytime soon > this means that the if you want a headset from Apple, the Vision Pro headset is only choice (in the short term) > demand spikes for Apple Vision Pro headset > Apple profits and announces that demand for the Vision Pro has "exceeded expectations" in their quarterly earnings call.

Spoiler

/sarcasm

 

[spazzcat]

The nonexisting low-cost one may have been canceled...

 

[klasma]

All those “plans” are pure speculation, Apple announces products, sometime months in advance but they never share “plans”…
So take this with the usual grain of salt

They necessarily have to share plans with their supply chain, or else there will be no product.

 

[spcopsmac21]

Sneaky this so called leaker
"low cost apple vison pro" MIGHT be canceled
No mr Kuo the next low cost ar headset will not be called vision PRO, thats all..so yea you can say a low cost vision PRO will never happen..there i call it before you...

Apple vision Air.

 

[arkitect]

Still gonna be a massive hit, but will be a slow burn. Definitely the future.

I'll agree with you that it is the future…

Question for me is whether that's going to be a Utopian or a Dystopian future.

 

[robbietop]

May have also been canceled because no one wants the full price one.

And LOL at "May take some time to become Apple's next big product".....more like "Will never be Apple's next big product."

 

[GrindedDown]

This could just be a controlled "leak". Kuo is given information through internal Apple backchannels saying that a low cost version is not coming. People who are on the fence now to decide to buy the first gen Vision Pro. Initial sales are slightly higher than "expected".

 

[ttyRazor]

It's hard to picture what a scaled down version of this would look like that didn't compromise on the features that sets it apart, and the idea of a less capable one seems like it would complicate things for developers. Less compact? Lower resolution? If we consider this the minimum of what a Vision headset would do, it'll be a long while before this can get scaled down to something that could be called and priced like a non-Pro Vision.

Best case scenario is that this takes the path of early iPhones where the cheaper ones are previous generation models.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Without a "cheaper" model, this product will fail because developers won't have a reason to develop for such a small consumer base. The cheaper model would be worth producing just for that fact alone.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Normally I’m a doubter about new products like this, but for some reason I think this will be a big success. I understand the arguments that it is dorky and cumbersome. I won’t argue against that. But the same would have been said twenty years ago about walking around with a computer sticking out of your back pocket.

I share your opinion on this topic. For this thing, too many of us Apple people seemed to have lost the ability to "think different." It takes only a little imagination to come up with a plethora of uses of this product. For example, this is another kind of cut at the same sort of thing "fold" and "roll"able screen devices are trying to deliver: mobile screens bigger than a brick in your pocket or screen in a bag... this one with no crease, no hinges, no scroll mechanisms.

If you ever wish for a screen bigger than the mobile one with you (iPhone, iPad, MB), this could deliver that out of the same bag... and delivery could be ANY size screen... not just a single size or only a little bigger screen... WITHOUT the scaling up of weight as you choose your bigger screen(s) size.

To your last point, this whole crowd DID passionately ridicule phablet-sized phones for YEARS before Apple went there: "one handed use", "pants with bigger pockets", man purses, developer fragmentation, et all. The word "abominations" was commonly slung. Then Apple rolled out iPhone Phablets and it's as if no one ever had such opinions... and later some of the same people were then ridiculing those who dared to call for smaller screen version of iPhones... and that continues right up to now.

When imaginations shrink too small, progress is hard to picture, feared and/or outright resisted. But soon this will go from imagination vapor to tangible reality. And I suspect much like the "abominations" of phablets, there will be a mass shift in opinion once what Vpro can do is fully revealed and able to be demoed in stores for the doubters.

Maybe if we can adopt some bigger man purses or pants with even bigger pockets, we can find a way to appreciate this entirely new thing from Apple once it can actually be experienced first hand?

 

[surfzen21]

This product is a PURE failure, until my third eye can take advantage of it. 🤣

You'd think a company that promotes the benefits of meditation, as much as they do, would be forward thinking enough to build it into their vision products. 🧘‍♀️

 

[spcopsmac21]

a product that was never announced gets cancelled and everyone in the comments rags on the actual product they announced

classic

Like Apples

I'm still firmly in camp "Take my money". I know it’s expensive. But an easy way Apple could drastically change the perception of its worth is to also make it act more like a Macbook Pro. If you could use the USB-C port to plug in a display, keyboard, mouse, etc., and use it like a computer as well as a headset then suddenly it’s way more justifiable. A good MBP costs $2500+. Seems like a win-win to me. This has an M2 and all hardware needed to also just act like a Mac.

The whole point of this device is you don’t need a computer or displays.
So I doubt highly they would do anything in the realm of what you said above.

 

[scrapesleon]

a cheaper version wasn't feasible in the first place

 

[klasma]

When the only thing Tim Cook could come up with was “watching Ted Lasso” when asked what he uses his Vision Pro for last week you just knew this isn’t going to be a successful product.

Of course you’ll have your enthusiasts and it’ll sell out, and they’ll rave about it at first. But slowly you just know they’ll use it less and less as the novelty wears off. Even watching Ted Lasso might actually be more enjoyable without something heavy attached to your head with multiple straps and plugged into a box in your pocket with 2 hours battery life. And you could, you know, watch it with someone.

The articles will then start coming out about how they’re going to their Mac/iPad/iPhone more and more etc and the narrative will shift away from this product as the hype inevitably dissipates.

It will have its uses sure. But it will remain a niche product at best for the foreseeable future and after the excitement of finally announcing a new product after several years the penny seems to be dropping internally at Apple this will be the case.

Yep. It will be similar to those folks who use an iPad as their laptop replacement. There will be people who stick with it, but it won't become a mainstream trend. The iPad at least has many other convenient uses.

 

[scrapesleon]

I’m called it.

I freaking called it.

This $3500 product will be a massive fail.

you sure credit cards will be doing the spending

 

[coolfactor]

Vision Pro is working up to be le epic fail.

The Vision "Pro" is just the first release of a new "Vision" platform. This rumour is nonsense.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Now by "lower cost Apple Vision Pro" do they mean a cheaper Vision Pro or a consumer model Apple Vision?

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

my boy kuo's on fire, did he just wake up ?

 

[ttyRazor]

Most likely

Apple vision Air.

Hard to picture there being a cheaper model that's also thinner and lighter for the Air name to make sense.

 

[coolfactor]

I’m called it.

I freaking called it.

This $3500 product will be a massive fail.

Read the headline, friend... "low-cost"

This false rumour is not about the soon-to-be-released Vision "Pro". There will be a lower-cost version of the Vision headset, and it won't be a "Pro" model in the same sense.

 

[jz0309]

They necessarily have to share plans with their supply chain, or else there will be no products.

components like eg display and new form factors for cameras and such, sure, but not the entire product, not until they are ready to build prototypes at the supplier... all those products that are "planned" for 2027 at this stage are built internally ...

 

[coolfactor]

VR/AR is inherently antisocial. It won't catch on until everyone is a shut-in autist. Maybe Gen Alpha

And that's why you don't work for Apple. Remember this is about "spatial computing". The Vision Pro is just the start of a whole new world of products, experiences and opportunities. Today it's an over-the-eyes headset. Tomorrow it will be floating in your personal space, no headset required. You'll just "see" it. Maybe contact lenses.