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Meta Cancels High-End Mixed Reality Headset After Apple Vision Pro Struggles
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Yeah, as if I'm the only one with doubts about this product. So is it n=1 or n=many?
You keep trying to ignore the converging opinions of those who have tested, used, or owned the Vision Pro.
The sales numbers tell you there's more doubt than acceptance of Apple's mass market headset.
How do apple’s profits help your experience again?
A potential that even Tim Cook could not articulate, beyond lying on his back to watch movies. This is why no one is buying.
Oh remember the Apple Vision Pro, every YouTuber was talking about it for like almost a whole week! Those sure were the days. It can do so many things, like uh... well it's like having a screen in front of you or something apparently. You can use it to... uhm... do things I guess? Anyway it's pretty cool hopefully one day someone will figure out what it's for, and maybe I'll even see one in person.
True, but Apple nowadays feels way too entitled to create a truly new product category. They simply expect everyone to buy their products no matter what price they charge.
Instead, what they should have done is offer the AVP for a significantly lower price, swallow the losses, invest heavily in developers and content creators for the AVP, and create a market they can then dominate for years.
One of the reasons AirPods are so popular is because they deliver rich sound, but at the same time they feel so light that you forget you’re even wearing them. And transparently mode allows you to feel present in the outside world while you’re listening to content.
VR is really isolating and secluding. And believe me, I’m an introvert. But I don’t want to be completely cutoff from the outside world. And the price, yikes.
VR is really isolating and secluding. And believe me, I’m an introvert. But I don’t want to be completely cutoff from the outside world. And the price, yikes.
Buy whatever they release at whatever price point. I’d argue if Apple charges their first gen vision pro $35000, there would still be Apple fans lining up to “embrace the future”, even taking out a loan to buy it.
Only apple has such a cult to sleep on. Literally only Apple.
It helps ensure that the product sticks around and is continued to be supported by Apple.
For example, why do you think there is even an Apple Watch Ultra in the first place? Because Apple is perhaps the only company who can sell a $800 smart watch and actually see any quantity of meaningful sales in the mass consumer market. At a time when android wear is in a race to the bottom.
At this point in my life, I want my devices to work more than I want them to be cheap. Our priorities are not so diametrically opposed in this regard.
I kind of wish they'd REALLY push the high end with some products ... just for the entertainment value of watching people figure out how to justify the cost and purchase
I'm always amazed to watch it even just with current iPhones (as one example)
Go for it Apple!
You know what was even more entertaining? Watching people opt for pricier iPhones over cheaper android handsets, with Apple going on to command the lion's share of profits in the smartphone market, while brands like LG and HTC suffer from negative margins and eventually drop out of the smartphone race altogether.
The beauty of the mass consumer market is that buyers don't really need to justify their purchases to anybody, and are therefore free to base their purchasing decisions on intangible (and sometimes unquantifiable) metrics that still matter to them nevertheless.
This is the lesson which Apple keeps teaching, and which others keep ignoring, often to their own detriment.
This needs a citation.
Just as possible, Meta‘s subterfuge tricked Apple into pouring their money, resources, and focus into a white elephant.
Because the CEO thought it was clearly going to have large appeal.
If you were in Cook’s shoes you would have invested more into this pointless product? Apple wants the little people to risk their capital and sweat on the software.
And Apple is hoping you will also read AI as Apple Intelligence.
Arrogance, I would say.
They need to get rid of that front screen right away. It was a solution in search of a problem that did nothing but increase development and production costs.
Yeah I agree. It’s the best implementation of VR/AR seen yet being squandered by a lack of any support whatsoever by Apple to curate a market.
Prior to the unveiling, I assumed Apple had a killer app for it. Even after the unveiling I still thought they had something they hadn't shown us yet.
And then they released it and it was clear that no, Apple actually had no ideas whatsoever for software for it.
100% one of the dumbest things. It isn't ready to release until it is small enough where people can wear it without looking like Cyborgs. Just releasing products that don't have any support or use for. iPad is still way too overpowered while running an OS that can't keep up with its abilities. Now they have a device that no one has any use for.
You can always focus on improving the iMac line by giving people what they want, a 30" iMac or improving the iPhone outside of the chip or camera lens. Do that until you can engineer this new device to be smaller and cheaper.
Apple thinks any new or innovative product they release now has to start at $3,500.
I saw this headline and said, “Hold on, let me go make some popcorn first.”