Daring FireballOct 26, 2024
★ Vision Pro Bites Dog
https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/vision_pro_bites_dog
Vision Pro Bites Dog

It’s almost as though — hear me out — Apple launched Vision Pro in 2023 for long-term strategic reasons, not with short-term sales in mind.

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Show threadNit

@daringfireball I think it’s done the expected job pretty well. In the hands of tech enthusiast types, devs fleshing out the App Store, plenty of learning for the next, more affordable, version etc. (also, has Apple ever launched a product line with the ‘Pro’ model?).

Also hadn’t even thought about the lack of marketing push.

One thing I’ve not seen much is follow-up reviews. It’s been available for over 6 months now. Would be good to see how regular users find/adapted to it.

Oct 26, 2024 at 11:54amWeb
Show threadRavi Oct 26, 2024
@NitP @daringfireball https://youtu.be/EzkrQQNSxj4?si=AlGtL4K0CIwkPsxw
My long-term Vision Pro review

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Show threadNitOct 26, 2024
@ravi @daringfireball thanks.
Show threadNitOct 26, 2024

@ravi @daringfireball Interesting. Wasn’t expecting it to be that negative with watching video the only real positive. I rarely watch anything solo except sports which I imagine would be brilliant in spatial video.

Shame about the productivity side, especially connected to a Mac. That’s a use case I thought would work well.

Show threadGreg KaplanOct 27, 2024

@NitP @ravi @daringfireball it’s awful as a monitor. I would rather work from my 13” MacBook Air and ancient 1080 monitor. Actually even when traveling just the MBA is better. It’s not worth the hassle of bringing AVP for it to be so dumb looking, so uncomfortable, so blurry and distorted, having eye fatigue.

It’s only good if you are a dev and have no choice and it’s better than taking it on and off again to develop between Mac and VisionOS.

Apple over promised so bad.

Show threadGreg KaplanOct 27, 2024
@ravi @NitP @daringfireball yep. This guy nailed it. This is a no BS, “normal person” review after 6 months.
Show threadRavi Oct 27, 2024
@kaplag @NitP @daringfireball
@matt FYI
Show threadGreg KaplanOct 27, 2024

@NitP @daringfireball I’ve had it since Feb. It’s the worst Apple product I’ve ever had. Nearly totally stopped using it and couldn’t recommend it to anyone. If price was reduced and more marketed it’d plummet into bad press. Even more people like me would own it and spread the word about how bad it is.

I think naming it “pro” and keeping the price high saved them. It’s not ready for consumers. Not sure it ever will. Even in 10 years. Maybe 15-40. This isn’t ready for mass market product.