Bricks have more use-cases: ovens, houses, restaurants etc. were any drive through movie theaters made of brick?
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Meta Cancels High-End Mixed Reality Headset After Apple Vision Pro Struggles
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Let’s face it, with 12 in our lab we can’t get Apple to return a call or answer emails. It’s their own self-inflicted developer story that’s got folks hesitating.
I think we all saw this sales slump coming, and many of us were told in the lead up to AVP “haha you doubt Apple - just watch.”
But now that it’s happened… can I just say I cast doubts on even the cheaper models doing well. It seems Apple hasn’t managed to address the biggest concern of all, which is lack is games.
A cheaper model isn’t going to magically bring games in.
But now that it’s happened… can I just say I cast doubts on even the cheaper models doing well. It seems Apple hasn’t managed to address the biggest concern of all, which is lack is games.
A cheaper model isn’t going to magically bring games in.
It’s not gonna be games because Apple does not and never will get games. But there could be a killer app or app category. Except they now also don’t get developers who are largely treated like serfs and share croppers mooching off the land. Like so much of modern Apple’s problems they have only themselves to blame.
The AVP would be a hard sell even at $999. Hell the quest 3 is a hard sell at 500 and it does a lot more than the AVP. I have a quest 2. It is fantastic and amazing still. We always say wow this is so real and feels like you are there. Yet we haven’t used it in months. We go back to tablets, gaming consoles and phones. It’s just the hassle of putting on the head set and then your isolated…
But that would also cause infrastructure collapse, rendering your devices powerless as there is no power.
Can’t wait for Apple to slowly eat away all other competitors and become a true monopoly everyone cheers and support.This is the lesson which Apple keeps teaching, and which others keep ignoring, often to their own detriment.
It’s because they were over betting on the new lockdown Covid way of life, taking hold and becoming a new norm.
They were so sold on it that they were convinced everyone will need a Vision Pro to feel like they were actively engaging in society, face-to-face even if there was a pandemic still going on
Too bad they didn’t be on medicine
Apple was refusing to call it VR only because they don’t own the term VR.
But they do own spatial computing or spatial video
I see it kind of like how WeWork stubbornly insisted it was a tech company, but not a real estate company.
Ditto.
All the more reason why I am so glad I returned mine on the 13th of my 14 day return
I find that most hardware needs good software to make it worthwhile, especially entirely new computing platforms.
I wouldn’t say no one.
But certainly not enough people who can actually afford it and would be committed to it like they are to an iPhone or an iPad for consistent yearly update, updates or upgrades
It’s really quite simple:
Zuckerberg didn’t wanna get stuck, holding the bag of being the only ridiculously overpriced headset on the market. That would make him look like a total incompetent boob to his board and stockholders.
as it is, he’s already pinned the fate of Facebook to the future of VR.
that KAUA’I bunker compound he’s been building doesn’t pay for itself you know
Zuckerberg didn’t wanna get stuck, holding the bag of being the only ridiculously overpriced headset on the market. That would make him look like a total incompetent boob to his board and stockholders.
as it is, he’s already pinned the fate of Facebook to the future of VR.
that KAUA’I bunker compound he’s been building doesn’t pay for itself you know
They predicted to sell about half a million units for that price and they will probably hit that mark by end of year. Seems like they know exactly what they are doing.
That's some 1 dimensional thinking there. Hey, let's pour billions into a product we don't want to make in the hopes that we fool another company into doing something similar.
I am so confused. When the Vision Pro launched they said there’s only enough for about 500k because Sony can’t make more than that. Now we are hearing that Apple is only expected to sell 500k So does that mean Apple will sell every one they make?
