@parismarx "These kids and their walkmans! Unacceptable! Look at them, walking in public not even listening to what's around them!"

Panic and ridicule about new tech happens all the time.

Check back in a decade. You'll have been proven one of those Walkman deniers.

@mattwilcox
Well, I think there is a point to the ridicule. Vision Pro is obviously not the device Apple wanted to make. Apple’s vision (no pun intended) is to make personal, intimate devices most people would like to carry with them, or even wear — everywhere. To make computing personal.

Vision Pro is not that device. Everything from its name, price and clunky design, to how it is marketed screams “professional customer”. Not consumer. And it’s the consumer they want to target — in the end.

Vision Pro is a way for Apple to iterate on the tech and in 10 years perhaps being able to launch the light-weight glasses they want to produce and that everyone would want to wear — everywhere, all the time.

@parismarx

@bitbear @mattwilcox @parismarx but this is like ridiculing the original Mac for being black and white, or the original iPhone for lacking 3G: it’s accurate, but it misses the point.

I highly doubt Apple is happy to ship a device that requires a battery pack in your butt. They’ll iterate as you say. And Apple will iterate fast, as they did with the Mac and iPhone, whereas the competition has significant reworks ahead.

@chucker @bitbear @mattwilcox @parismarx I think the message from the WWDC keynote with Disney on stage announcing Day One support/interest is that Apple might be betting that they have a much faster/more aggressive consumer-focused iteration plan than “10 years”.

I don’t know what they are planning or expecting or keeping up their sleeve, but I’m bringing popcorn because this feels like it may be real interesting to watch.