Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos::undefined

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      It also has basically no battery life and once that mostly useless battery becomes completely useless you are never unplugging that thing from the wall because you bet Apple made that battery impossible to replace!

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      10 months ago

      It is not meant for the end consumer at this stage, it is a tech demo and development kit.

      The real consumer variant will probably be released in a year or two.

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        10 months ago

        Did they say this or is this your pet theory? I don’t feel like that is necessarily the best strategy, since people won’t develop for it, when there’s no users and no users will appear when no one develops an ecosystem for this thing…

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              10 months ago

              So?

              They need to build hype, and if that means they are pushing a demo on walk-ins,then I don’t have an issue with it as long as they accept a “No thank you” from the customer.

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        10 months ago

        So… I can’t buy it? If I can, you’re either lying, wrong, or have an agenda.

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          10 months ago

          So… I can’t buy it?

          If you can afford it you can buy it, the purpose of a product does not need to affect availablility.

          you’re either lying

          Why go straight into calling me a liar? This just shows that you don’t want to have a proper discussion.

          wrong,

          This is quite possible, I have been wrong before, and I will be wrong in the future, it happens, and is not the end of the world unless you realy fuck up.

          or have an agenda.

          I can’t figure out any agenda that I would push regarding the Vision Pro.

          In the end, it is a theory, based on resonable data available to me.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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      10 months ago

      A lot of tech, including computers, commonly cost that much for a long time. It’s not a totally outrageous for consumer tech.