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.

Daring Fireball

@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.

My long-term Vision Pro review

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@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.

@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.

@ravi @NitP @daringfireball yep. This guy nailed it. This is a no BS, “normal person” review after 6 months.