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What will happen to all these returned Apple Vision Pros?
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I would guess they will eventually end up in the refurbished store.
Apple will use them for replacing devices under warranty/AC
I'll be this is a product that is never available refurbished
I'll be this is a product that is never available refurbished
Apple will sell them as refurbished. It is illegal to sell open packaged items as new.
Then why would they sell any product as refurbished when they can just scam people and say it's brand new?
Probably the sheer volume of them on hand
They only need so many for replacement usage of any device
All these returned Vision Pros? I doubt there will be that many.
Priority always goes to warranty replacements.
Once Apple has more than enough for anticipated replacements, then they sell as refurbs. Every refurb unit sold on the market puts downward pressure on the price of new units. This is not something Apple wants.
Once Apple has more than enough for anticipated replacements, then they sell as refurbs. Every refurb unit sold on the market puts downward pressure on the price of new units. This is not something Apple wants.
Laws. Consumer protections. They got in some trouble for refurb units a while back so that process is now under intense scrutiny.
Illegal where? Under what law?
Amazon sells opened and returned products as new all the time.
They don't put iPhones on refurb until they're 2 or 3 years old.
I agree it's unlikely Apple makes them available for a discount anytime soon
I agree it's unlikely Apple makes them available for a discount anytime soon
I would think there would be a lot. It’s a novelty item at a pretty good price point for people to buy them to try out with no intention of keeping them.
Why are you asking questions that nobody but Apple has the answer to? We'll see soon enough.
Why wouldn't they? They sell refurbished watches, they even sell refurbished AirPods. It usually takes a few months but I see no reason they wouldn't eventually also have these in the refurb store.
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I think historically, it’s usually taken a gen 2 of a new product category to be out before Apple puts the gen 1 in the refurb store.
I vaguely recall the first Apple Watch being that way.
I'm not sure they will see it as super desirable to have a ton of these AVP v1's out there, to the point where doing refurbs makes sense.
Sorry, I should have clarified -- I think AVP models will be refurbs at some point, but I'm skeptical this v1 model will.
If we're being honest, it's a dev kit that really shouldn't have been a full blown customer release at this time (at least in my view)
The last new category was HomePod and refurbs were made available 9 months after it launched.
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I don't think "Series 0" Watch was ever made available as refurb, nor the original AirPods.
Ah, I didn't realise they don't usually refurb 1st gen stuff. I never buy 1st gen Apple hardware so I guess I've never really looked for it in the refurb store.
That's fair, but it's also unusual that they come out with the "Pro" version as first model, so I suspect this might not follow their traditional product lifecycle. It also makes me wonder how compromised the non-Pro version might be if this is the premium one. But I'm not getting one anyway, so it's not a big deal.
Maybe if they get a gaming story fleshed out they'll go downmarket to try to steal from the Quest marketshare?
It seems fairly "un-Apple" though to gimp something like this with lesser displays. That would take away a really key advantage it currently has...one of the few (I would argue).
It doesn't seem like there's any room underneath the "Pro" for a normal AV -- at least not right now I guess.
They'll find a way.
They gimped the display on the 24" iMac after the incredible 27" iMac display.