Do all of you who are dissing AVP actually have one and used it? Here is the PERFECT video to describe what an owner like me feels:
Useless to try with this crowd. Most seemed to mentally bury it
before it was even born.
EVERY Vpro thread has the "solution in search of a problem" and "what's a use case?" posts... when the very same people repeatedly see the answer to both in thread after thread:
every tech company is trying to find a path towards making MOBILE screens BIGGER. Existing form factors can't simply scale up much more. For example, we've seen a MB 17" before but can you imagine the weight of a 20", 24", 30"? Would anyone want to lug around the weight of a 30" MB? Since Vpro can deliver a 100" screen, who wants to lug around the very heavy weight of a 100" (presumably maxi-multi-fold) MB 100"? Who's got the back for that?
Anyone like me who does the bulk of their computing on a BIG desktop screen (mine is 40" ultra-wide) who then has to shift to 16" when traveling feels the great productivity crash of the loss of all that screen R.E.
It is dramatic, frustrating, etc. I always look forward to getting back to the main setup and that huge screen.
Best I know
there are 4 ways to maintain MOBILITY benefits while meaningfully delivering bigger screens:
- Vpro and similar virtual screens
- Foldable screens
- Rollable screens
- Projector that projects on something else acting as screen
All of these already exist as products from somebody(s)...
...and there are strong rumors of Apple working on some kind of foldable MB to try to deliver an 18"-20" screen too. And there are plenty of rumors of an iPhone Fold.
Vpro and similar and #4 Projector are the only types that can scale the screen to ANY size without scaling weight too. Conceptually there could be a gigantic fold or multi-fold or a gigantic rollable screen but those will have weight rising with size of screen. A major enemy of MOBILITY is weight. Does anybody want the weight of a 20" iPhone in their pocket? Does anybody want all of the aluminum weight to make the bottom half of a MB 30" be the same size as the top half?
So Vpro & similar and projector lock the weight
while delivering any size screen. For someone like me who really feels it when "forced" to drop from 40" to 16", those kinds of options have strong draw. I too don't love the high pricing but I disagree with others seeking halving the price or more because I know that to cut pricing of anything Apple makes in half would mean tremendous cuts to the features & benefits of those things. We've seen attempts at this before from Apple and then ridicule the tangible cuts to support the lowered prices. Often what we want is THE SAME features & benefits for a much lower price. The only way that happens here and gets close to target prices is if Apple opted to forgo their huge margin... and then squeezed some sizable discounts out of others who make something for it and tangibly cut a few things that may be less important.
For example, of the $2K or less that so many call for, 4K-per-eye almost certainly must get cut to a much lower resolution. The whole point of something with the name "Vision" is to deliver exceptional visuals to our eyes. Do we want a Vpro Jr with 1080 resolution like many others priced down in our target price range? What's the big complaint with the other products priced down there: BLURRY. Do we want to spend $1K-$2K on blurry Vpro Jr? Or will that not be worth that "half price" range because now it's so blurry?
Is Vpro worth $3500+? What things are worth is wallet of the beholder. With other smart phones available for $150, is an iPhone worth $1500? With abundant laptop computers for sale below $250, is a MBpro at $2K-$3K-$4K, etc worth its price? Was that original gen Edition Watch worth $17K? Is an Apple handkerchief at $20 justifiable? How about a thousand dollar monitor stand? How about stripping the Mac out of the iMac screen, leaving the keyboard and mouse out of the box too but then selling what is left for the same "starting at" pricing as the old iMac? Is that a good price?
With just as much zeal, people will passionately argue
FOR relatively high pricing for
other Apple products. This one makes many argue
AGAINST its pricing. For me, I think about a scenario where there was a MB-fold, MB-roll, MB-projector and MB-virtual (screen) all for sale and I'd probably always favor the latter two and the virtual screen one the most of all 4 options. Why?
Any size screen at a fixed weight. And it vs. the projector option means no light bleed to wash out the view.
To each his own of course. I have zero problem seeing tremendous utility in an any-size monitor anywhere I happen to be. I spent $2K for a fixed size monitor that will be anchored to a single spot for probably its entire lifetime. So Vpro is not really that much more for a
mobile version of the same in a light-weight package... that can also scale to 2X or bigger too. Someone else might be perfectly happy getting by on the relatively puny screens in the technology they already own. If it makes one happy, be happy.
I look forward to seeing upgrades to that OS. Hopefully Apple listened and have made some big strides. I even more so look forward to about version 4-8 of this OS when there has been enough time to listen much more and make many more strides. Like everyone, I'll hope Apple finds a way to a lower price that somehow doesn't have to compromise some of the best hardware features like 4K-per-eye... but I don't see that anymore than I see half price or lower iPhones, MBs and iPads.
