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.

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.

  • XenGi@lemmy.chaos.berlinEnglish
    689·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
      152·
      10 months ago

      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?

          • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            I doubt they’d need to. No vendor will put much effort in until it enables a value-add for tens of millions (at a minimum). As long as the device can virtualize a standard 2D monitor in 3D space, you can watch anything that can be displayed on a 2D monitor — same as how you could sit in a cinema audience using google cardboard for the last decade.

        • XenGi@lemmy.chaos.berlinEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          I don’t wanna put a 3.5k $ headset on to look at photos. I can do that perfectly on my phone or laptop.

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          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?).

      • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        The Internet tells me it’s a good contender for enterprise as a similar headset that doesn’t need a computer to work costs about $5k+. So I guess the fact it’s being sold to consumers is just to ice the proverbial enterprise made money cake. And since so many major consumer apps are saying no to supporting the headset it’s gotta sell in the enterprise world or find a super niche of well to do hackers, given it’s cost, to keep it alive.

        The second hand market in a couple years will be very telling of how well it did and is doing.

      • FiveMacsEnglish
        1218·
        10 months ago

        You will do and use what apple tells you too. Don’t think, only do.

    • Rose56@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      Exactly and also its for different market, it’s not for an every day user.

    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      10 months ago

      It won’t even run all iPad apps since the developers of some major apps (Netflix, etc) have disabled that function. I don’t think anyone wants Apple to have as much control as they do for the iOS App Store. We also haven’t been shown a compelling reason to spend that much money on a new product and ecosystem when 99% of the computing we do is always with us. I love Apple products and I have zero interest in Vision Pro.