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.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    10 months ago

    As a package designer, I’m intrigued by what might come from this headset, if I had $3500 of play money to throw around I’d probably buy one, but so far I haven’t really seen any slam dunk use-cases for this thing yet. I can imagine all sorts of awesome ideas for this thing, BUT biggest problems are going to be price and Apple itself with their walled garden mindset. The kind of apps you’ll get from it aren’t really going to be that great, given the current state of just regular old iOS apps right now, they all suck and most are designed for profit. Given the limited market for this thing, that could be good or bad, potentially all the greedy revenue-generating apps will stay away from it because there’s not as big a market, but potentially others might see all the whales that bought this thing and their deep pockets and realize they can shovel whatever crap onto this thing because there’s not that much to buy.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      That’s one difference I noticed between my iPhone that I use for business and my main driver Android phone. The focus on maximizing profit feels so much stronger in the popular iOS apps. I’m sure this is subjective and it will depend on the applications you use, but wow is there a massive push to subscribe to everything in Apple world.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      It’s bonkers.

      $3500 for the unit. AppleCare+ for Vision Pro Headset Costs $499. The Apple Developer Program annual fee is 99 USD and the Apple Developer Enterprise Program annual fee is 299 USD. And you’ll need an M2 - Developing for visionOS requires a Mac with Apple Silicon. Any devs using intel macs with real GPUs - those aren’t going to work. Add $700-2500 for a mac mini. Cheapest way out with least amount of storage on each device - $4800ish.

      All for the privilege of developing software for a platform that will only ever have a tiny install base. Later when the install base grows, do you think apple will be interested in lowering these costs? lol