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Emulating the West is part of modern Asian culture. Starting with the Japanese in the 19th century (whose new emperor ditched centuries-old isolationism in favour of a wide embrace of Western culture - even considering replacing the local language with English at some point), the trend progressively spread to other countries and it's no surprise, nowadays, to see the likes of Samsung shamelessly copying Apple's AirPods Pro or Vision Pro.
That being said, Asian countries and corporations have, each at its own pace, evolved from blindly copying the West to a more selective approach, from reverse engineering to advanced R&D, from cheap low quality to cutting-edge luxury. A good example of this is how the "Made in Japan" brand evolved from the 1960s to the 1990s.
 
It’s been 1.5 years since the introduction and a year since the launch of the Vision Pro, yet Samsung still only has a non-working demo at their event. That’s not a good sign, they need to step up!
I mean they don’t literally have a magical photocopier. Cost of having a strategy of just copying whatever competition does.
 
Considering Google’s track record on platform commitment I don’t think so.

Which platform are you talking about?

They are very committed to android as well as android automotive OS

Google has started and stopped various projects over the years but entire platforms I don’t think they’ve been particularly flaky about.
 
Which platform are you talking about?

They are very committed to android as well as android automotive OS

Google has started and stopped various projects over the years but entire platforms I don’t think they’ve been particularly flaky about.
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I think somewhere in the middle at a more reasonable price.

Samsung is also able to build it in scale.
Samsung doesn’t have better scalability than Apple.
On a device like that, price is absolutely everything. I’ve read how great the AVP is and many people would love to have one. That said, lots of people would love to have a Ferrari too but don’t.
 
Honestly looking at the strap design, it looks like a much cleaner version of the bobovr forehead pad and o-ring. I’m certain this will be much more comfortable than the Vision Pro.
 
I've been using my avp daily again since the update with the widescreen Mac virtual display. The regular software for avp still needs a lot of refining it has too many quirks with warnings and the persistent labels and handlebars.
 
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The most "innovative" thing Samsung did in this industry was popularize larger screen phones. Outside of that they've been content with being the shameless copy of Apple.
I agree. But they are after a populist market for those who just wanna hate anything apple. Who knew there was a market for that? They must have been hangin’ around MacRumors.

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You’re from the USA I suppose? Volvo and many other brands use Android automotive. It’s open and carmakers can make the adjustments to make it look and feel like the rest of their brand.

Apple is closed and that’s why you won’t see CarPlay 2.0.
Android Automotive =\= Android Auto. Several cars exist that have Android Automotive and CarPlay, but no Android Auto…

But the main objection is any notion that Android will “kill” Apple. It will not. It will gain a larger market share, but that is not “killing”. Killing means someone dies, and Apple consistently has a small but profitable market share, because they have a majority of people with money. Which, and I know this is an unpopular opinion, happens to coincide with more educated people.
 
Samsung makes good hardware with good specs, but they have no vision, fantasy or innovation capabilities.
They are still playing the same copycat game. Kinda sad.
 
Sells for 999, tons of AI features, lightweight and competes in display quality?
If it does, it would be a shame for Apple who invested billions in a heavyweight and super expensive VR headset that can‘t even handle AI functionality.
 
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None of the Android vs iOS comparisons are relevant here until Apple cuts about 70% off the AVP price so they actually get some buyers and developers interested in it in any quantity

They desperately need consumer interest (owners) in it to drive development interest

Even that doesn't assure it though -- just look at Apple TV Apps ...mostly just nothing but content viewing App portals.

Headset form factors still have many challenges to overcome with social acceptability, isolation, comfort, etc
Which is why the price barrier is super irrelevant at this point. Even people who can afford it, and owns it, don’t use it. Which means it doesn’t matter if it costs ten bucks, because the use case hasn’t been proven yet. And that will NOT come from Samsung.

Apple’s competition is not copycats like Samsung. Apple’s competition is Meta, who have actually made a product in this space that people are using and seemingly happy with. And other future entities that we haven’t seen yet. I cannot think of one single product category where Samsung has shown the validity of a use case. Their strategy is to pick up existing, more or less proven use cases, and do it cheaper and with better “performance” specifically on the parameters that are most effective on the showroom floor (I’m avoiding the word “quality” on purpose here).

This is also why it is in no way urgent or paramount that Apple leads in this space, currently. There is zero evidence that this segment (VR) will ever become even remotely as relevant as the smartphone. AR similar to Meta glasses may be a different story, but it’s still so early days that Apple can easily move into that segment when and if the market proves valuable. I think Apple did 100% the right thing with putting a “bells and whistles” product on the market to learn from, and then they will have tons of data and experience to build more focused products in the future. Even if those products are nothing like the current product. Imagine Apple creates a simple pair of AR glasses as an iPhone accessory, without VisionOS. They will be very well positioned to do that now, with the experience they just gathered.
 
Samsung makes good hardware with good specs, but they have no vision, fantasy or innovation capabilities.
They are still playing the same copycat game. Kinda sad.
Wrong, but the majority of the customers will never realize it because of our throwaway society: Samsung makes poor hardware with good specs, not good hardware with good specs. Other than that, you are right. Samsung’s most important skill is to make a cheap product seem like quality, when it is in fact just very selective performance optimisation.

(This goes for their consumer division. Samsung is s big company, and parts of their semiconductor business do provide quality products, many of which don’t go into their own consumer products).
 
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