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How many people want to wear this thing on their head instead of watching their 65" OLED TV (or bigger for the price of this thing)?

With AVP I'll have a 65"+ TV screen inside my cramped SUV camper when traveling and camping. I don't want a physical 65" TV in my SUV camper. :)

AVP also makes me consider having a TV-less home in the future. I love the homey set designs they showed off, none of which had the obtuse black hole of a TV. It's a "back to the future look" where technology is finally blending in with home décor, or disappearing out of the way. Many people have been waiting for this ever since computers stopped being university mainframes. Apple actually pioneered "the computer as décor" to overcome the mainframe-style ugliness, and now they're making the tech as invisible but functional as their innovation can. I always knew it would be Apple to bring us Her-style minimalistic computing.

Maybe a few iterations will be needed to make AVP mainstream and comfortable, but Apple knows what they're doing. At some point I'm sure we'll get the non-Pro Apple Vision for the masses.

MacBook Pros and iPhones aren't going anywhere. AVP is unlikely to cannibalize them, especially since AVP can simply be an external Mac screen (though let us remember iPhone did cannibalize iPod, RIP). As long as the real-life experience lives up to quality without eye strain (!), AVP could easily cannibalize a percentage of obnoxious TV/projector setups, and even 30" desktop screens, which for some will prove small, cramped, and too-tethered-down compared to how AVP liberates them.

When the presenter (Tim?) made the comment about how "a TV and audio system etc etc" cannot compare to AVP, I assumed he was going to mention a price comparison. "AVP replaces all of that, but for this price." AVP is on trajectory to displace some percentage of space-hogging, money-sinking home theaters for many average people who'd rather watch TV under the stars, wherever they feel like sitting or lying back.
 
The best would be able to stream with 4g lte or 5g a 4k movie or tv show.
 
Okay, listen, I respect the work that went into this. I can also respect this is a kind of beta hardware for something that might be practical one day in the future. Apple can totally afford to play around with ideas. So, I'm not knocking them for working on this.

However, let's be honest. How many people want to wear this thing on their head instead of watching their 65" OLED TV (or bigger for the price of this thing)? Who wants to take this on a trip instead of a trusty MacBook Pro that has 16 hours of battery life? Who wants to use this thing to write forum posts? Who wants to use this thing to do much of anything? Not me.

In fact there is only one thing I can see this being useful for given the battery life, but they aren't going to market it for that.
I film Feet content 😅 if that’s what you are trying to say. I have an A7iv Camera so yeah. I know what you are trying to say for that topic of content.
 
Yeah, if it doesn’t appeal to you, don’t buy it. Nobody is holding a gun to your head. What’s the point of creating a thread about it?

This is the first iteration that will mostly appeal to early adopters (like me). Every subsequent iteration of this product will appeal to a broader audience as it matures, just like iPhone.
Except the part where iPhone was a phone, some thing literally everyone understood, and this is a giant freaking headset, something absolutely no one understands?
 
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Except the part where iPhone was a phone, some thing literally everyone understood, and this is a giant freaking headset, something absolutely no one understands?

iPhone 1 units sold: 6 million
iPhone 13 units sold: 60+ million

Does that mean in 2007 when the first iPhone launched that 54 million people did not understand the iPhone?

People were pretty happy with their Nokias and BlackBerrys.

As future iterations of Vision Pro are launched, cheaper models will come and older (traded-in) devices will become cheaper.

Would a $1,000 Vision Pro appeal to a broader audience? Absolutely. That day will come in the future as demand grows and production costs reduce.
 
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iPhone 1 units sold: 6 million
iPhone 13 units sold: 60+ million

Does that mean in 2007 when the first iPhone launched that 54 million people did not understand the iPhone?
It also cost $500 with no subsidy or carrier discount or payment plan. And was not integral to peoples lives like it is today. People were getting their phones for free every 2 years. But none of them said I DONT WANT A PHONE. How many people right now would say “I don’t want a giant ski googles strapped to my head tethered to a battery in my pocket” ? Spoiler: most.
 
It also cost $500 with no subsidy or carrier discount or payment plan. And was not integral to peoples lives like it is today. People were getting their phones for free every 2 years. But none of them said I DONT WANT A PHONE. How many people right now would say “I don’t want a giant ski googles strapped to my head tethered to a battery in my pocket” ? Spoiler: most.
Apple Vision Pro is a luxury product for those who want it and can afford it. Just like a Lamborghini or a Porsche.

Just because not everyone wants it or can afford it, doesn’t mean there’s no market for it. If you don’t want it, don’t get it. Go get yourself the Meta Quest 3 for $500 instead.
 
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Apple Vision Pro is the new 18k gold Apple Watch Edition.

Jobs would have never let that thing launch with a power cord dangling down to a battery pack. And apparently the product group felt the same way.

There’s something kind of soul-sucking about a device that displays images your eyes.

I have many more feelings about it, but that’s enough to get my point across.
 
People with large sums of disposable cash will likely buy this.
I don’t think it’s only about cash. It’s about the fact that the hardware itself is objectionable. The software and experience can be fantastic, but the hardware is actually getting in the way and enabling it at the same time. You can clearly see why a lot of people inside Apple did not want them to release this hardware at all but there’s no way that Tim Cook is going to wait until after his tenure for this software experience to get on the market.
 
Apple Vision Pro is a luxury product for those who want it and can afford it. Just like a Lamborghini or a Porsche.

Just because not everyone wants it or cannot afford it, doesn’t mean there’s no market for it. If you don’t want it, don’t get it. Go get yourself the Meta Quest 3 for $500 instead.
That’s some really nice NPC copy and paste commentary, but what the hell does it have to do with the fact that the hardware itself is some thing that people aren’t interested in? It has nothing to do with the cost. It has nothing to do with how great the software experience is. It has to do with the fact that people don’t want to wear huge ski goggles.
 
It has to do with the fact that people don’t want to wear huge ski goggles.
Speak for yourself.

I am absolutely buying the Apple Vision Pro in the first few minutes it goes on sale. Just like I did the first iPhone in 2007.

I am a software engineer, a technology enthusiast, an early adopter, and spend a lot of money on Apple products and services every year.

I see the potential, I see the future in Apple Vision Pro.
 
Yeah I agree with the OP. I’m sure I’ll be proven wrong in the end, I usually am about predictions about tech, but this tech really turns me off. I get the arguments, but I feel like this just further separates us from the world around us, and there’s so much work to do. Yes I know it could be purposed for something useful, but I don’t think that’s the main aim.
 
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