David CarrollWill you be ordering an Apple #VisionPro headset? Please boost for reach.
Day 1
Holiday 2024
Eventually, reluctantly
Never
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If the price of #VisionPro or a variant were to drop to the cost of a subsidized smartphone in your local market, please take the poll again.
Day 1 of subsidized price
Subsidized Holiday 202X
Never unless open source
Never. Couldn’t pay me.
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Chad Geidel@profcarroll E: depends on the software.
I want this thing and today's price seems reasonable, but not for "Minority Report Spreadsheets" or "Personal Home Theater."
Serenus@profcarroll I think the price is going to make it a tough sell. It’s too expensive to move in bulk as an entertainment device, and I’m not sure it offers enough in terms of productivity to sell as a work device at that price.
If they got it down to even the cost of a laptop, I think there might be something there. At double the price, I suspect this is going to end up like the Newton.
@Serenus pls take my second poll if you haven’t already that factors in a price reduction à la smartphones https://federate.social/@profcarroll/110493696384298424
David Carroll (@[email protected])
If the price of #VisionPro or a variant were to drop to the cost of a subsidized smartphone in your local market, please take the poll again. [ ] Day 1 of subsidized price [ ] Subsidized Holiday 202X [ ] Never unless open source [ ] Never. Couldn’t pay me.
William O'Connell@profcarroll Forgive my ignorance, what is a subsidized smartphone? I've seen phones from like $150 all the way to $1800.
@williamoconnell the cheap ones are probably subsidized and the expensive ones probably aren’t; various things like contract length or trade-in structure the subsidies
@profcarroll Oh like by a carrier. I was thinking you meant subsidized by the government or something. I've only ever bought unlocked phones at retail so I'm not too familiar with carrier pricing; if I was more of an Apple user I'd probably be tempted around $600. I've been thinking about trying the XReal Air for a while but I keep hoping the price will drop.
@williamoconnell just like an iphone the price will be eventually be free for a new customer
Burnt Veggies@profcarroll I picked never. I'm just not keen on wearing a computer on my face. I don't understand the draw personally.
Phil GreerThis is one of those really hard calls. I see how this product could be very useful, but also how it can be abused. The companies that would be most interested in subsidizing the price are also the most likely to abuse it.
Apple gatekeeping the software that can be run upon it will be both good and bad.
My best use case (outside of entertainment) for this product is using it to repair or install stuff. Things like fixing a broken washing machine or repair a bicycle. Open source in the hacker community is how this will happen, because the companies that make these things don't have the incentive to release this kind of software.