Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day::Despite expectations, Apple has failed to sell out of its Vision Pro on launch day. This is despite estimates of day 1 availability being limited to between 60,000 and 80,000 units.
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Ok, I’m a little confused. A friend sent me this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/01/19/apple-vision-pro-sold-out-at-least-for-pre-order/
Yeah pretty sure the only reason they “didn’t sell out” was because they moved the release window to accommodate the extra demand. For all intents and purposes, this product sold out.
What about “Apple has managed to supply enough units of Vision Pro on day one”?
That would work except knowing apple. Their plan was Probably to sell out by deliberately limiting supply.
It is currently impossible to make more than 500,000 units per year due to their complexity. Less than that when you account for inevitable production defects.
So for the foreseeable future, Apple will be consistently failing to keep up with demand. They could charge $10,000 per unit and still not be able to keep up.
Well, this article says they are producing way less than that, selling it for way less than that, and they still had unsold inventory. I’m not sure from that how do you understand “and still not being able to keep up” when it literally says otherwise.
The article is click bait, what did you expect?
The displays and the chips that drive them cannot be produced in large quantities yet. Until that changes, there is an upper limit to the total number of units Apple can make.
The initial stock of Vision Pros have been split between online preorders and in-store purchases on launch day. The online pre-orders are sold out. The rest will no doubt sell out on launch day.
Sources: Daring Fireball, Relay.fm, Ming-Chi Kuo
Saving this comment. It might be the stupidest thing I’ve seen on here yet lmao.
What the fuck are those sources hahahaha, you can’t just say a name and act like that’s a source. Did you use LLM to write that comment?
How dare you question Ming-Chi Kuo 😤
Just because you say things, doesn’t make them true.
Fan-boy award unlocked!
I don’t own any Apple device.
Cause No one wants to pay this much for a VR headset that doesn’t even run any games. Except for the usual fanboys that would buy everything from the fruit company.
Apples gonna apple
It doesn’t run games? What is it actually expected to be used for then, for the average consumer? The only things Ive really seen VR used for thus far are games or game-like social apps, and some commercial purposes like certain kinds of training. Since this looks like it’s been sold to individual consumers then, what are they expecting the use case to be?
You will do and use what apple tells you too. Don’t think, only do.
Netflix, video calls and looking at old pictures is the impression I got.
You got that impression? I got the impression that the best selling point of it was all about the excel sheets and do more efficiently your work with it (should I remark this is sarcasm?).
Not really, I’d love the idea of having infinite workspace instead of 5 monitors
I don’t wanna put a 3.5k $ headset on to look at photos. I can do that perfectly on my phone or laptop.
The apple watch also failed to sell well initially. Now just about everyone has one. I don’t own a single apple product, but the one thing Apple has going for it with new tech is that they invest in their ecosystem and don’t give up on products too quickly.
“dont give up on products too quickly”? Whats with repairability or any iphone older than the newest iteration? They ditch any “real” support for it almost immediate after the next release.
I’m not sure if using the longest running and best smelling smart phone line in existence as an example of a product apple gave up on top quickly is a good strategy there champ.
Longest running? I see the iphone 14 already deprecated and abandoned by apple after the release of the iphone 15. Almost every year 1 new iphone because they ditched the old one. If you just pumping out “new” phones + you ditch the old ones and urge or even destroying “old” users products that use 1 or 2 generations older iphones or other products of the big apple because “they are not the most up to date ones” is not giving up on that product?
Almost every new iPhone. The product line is the iPhone. The product in the like is the specific phone. Saying apple abandoned the iPhone is like saying chevy abandoned the Silverado, the longest running truck model in America, by releasing a new one every year. It’s literally the exact opposite of the point you’re trying (very very very badly) to argue.
I am not arguing, its sadly a fact. Apple abandon every iphone or macbook that is older than 1-2 Generations ( or rather said 1-2 Years ). They make on almost all iterations something incompatible or deprectating stuff to force “old” generations userbase to buy the new product. The iphone LINE is very long running but every iteration is not that long. I said it about repairability about their phones, they just either refuse to repair “old” (1-2 year old) laptops or smartphones, and that is what bugging me about them. With it the iteration is dead/abandoned by apple, as they control every part that a third party repair service could use, literally making your phone very risky if something breaks nothing can be done.
Yeah, Apple stuff doesn’t usually get good enough for widespread use until the 3rd generation or so. That was true for Mac OS X, iPod, iPhone, et cetera.
Same with Macbooks too. The first few iterations were kinda ass but around 2005-2007 they exploded in popularity. By the time I got to grad school nearly 50% of laptops in any given class were those white or black Macbooks.
The fact that they did a launch of a new product line without another keynote talk tells me they know it is not a consumer level device yet. We will likely see them hype up the gen 2/3 version once some killer app feature is developed or they release a more affordable tier. Like the Apple Watch was a bit unanchored until it leaned into the heath tech. You are right Apple doesn’t normally abandon product lines so hopefully they work through it and figure out a mass market appeal.
The limited production numbers indicate that too. They’re essentially banking on using fanboys (no negative connotation here) to beta test and see what they gravitate towards, and where it shines. Then like the health stuff for the watch, they’ll capitalize on whatever the standout becomes and sort of cater development around it for mass appeal.
