Apple Vision Pro tipped for late Jan/early Feb release::Apple oracle Ming-Chi Kuo offered an early holiday gift, narrowing down what he believes will be a “late-January/early-February” release.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Apple oracle Ming-Chi Kuo offered an early holiday gift on December 24, narrowing down what he believes will be a “late-January/early-February” release date for the system.
The analyst says that the first wave of Vision Pros are being shipped to Apple in about a month, with total shipments numbering around 500,000 for the full year.
About a month after the device was revealed, reports suggested that Apple has scaled back expectations from around one million to “fewer than 400,000.”
Not only is it an entirely new category and form factor for the company, it’s also prohibitively priced, even for customers accustomed to shelling out extra for apple products.
Add to that VR’s decades-long failure to live up to expectations, and you’ve got a big uphill fight on your hands.
Kuo refers to Vision Pro as “Apple’s most important product of 2024.” Given the years of speculation and all the time and money the company has no doubt poured into the headset, it’s a tough statement to argue.
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I’m sure people care about this
Lets be real, who is actually buying this 💀
I won’t buy one but I can see the market for it and believe it’s going to be great.
Same question people ask every time Apple enters a new market segment.
It’s astounding. The same reason why the Steamdeck is better than the Asus and Lenovo imitation handhelds is why people will want the Apple Vision Pro compared to building your own headset and PC. Yet just because it’s Apple, all the edgelords are out in force refusing to see why a product combining existing technologies for you is better for the masses than one you cobble together yourself.
Well that’s in the fact that it’s stupidly expensive. It might be worth the price but it’s still far too expensive for most people to be able to afford.
Also it’s basically only available in the US which is a weird decision given that Europe has so many high profile game studios.
Honesty that’s a really bad time to launch as most people will still be broke from Christmas.
Though it could be a plan to make it even more of a status symbol, so more people will budget or take out loans to get one.
Honesty though I don’t think they will become a massive part of anyone’s daily lives anytime soon. As imagine the theft of these things if people started wearing them in public, and sure they can put all the anti theft stuff into it they want, but that hasn’t effected phone theft much.
But my big thing is what does it offer me I can’t already do with my phone. The reason the smartphone was such a hit is it made so many things into one device and it is cheaper then getting all of those devices, and there is a genuine improvement in out and about life with one.
With a headset I don’t really see what it does that I can’t already do easily at home. I have a laptop and a TV and both of those are cheaper. There is the gaming aspect, but no killer titles in that space. And I do worry about the negative mental health effects of such a device.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a flop and this kind of tech only gets usage in specialist applications.
