Marco Arment1d ago

The $3500 face-covering, world-isolating, anti-social, uncomfortably heavy 3D computer headset with clunky external battery, limited optical quality, awful text input, awful voice input, primitive pointer input, a locked-down OS, almost no software, almost no content, and no good way to share it with anyone else in the household was held back by… poor retail training!

Yeah, that's it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/07/vision-pro-troubled-launch-in-apple-stores/

New Book Details Vision Pro's Troubled Launch in Apple Stores

A new book by New York Times labor reporter Noam Scheiber argues that Apple's decade-long erosion of its retail workforce directly contributed to...

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Show threadNico Reese1d ago
@marcoarment I'm reminded of my Vision Pro's existence purely because it does the security reboot thing every 48 hours at 1:35 AM (that's when I last used it 6+ months ago) with an audible chime.
Show threadsoftmaus1d ago
@nicoreese Why don’t you sell it?
Show threadNico Reese1d ago
@softmaus I still want to be able to try out new software features and see where it's heading, and immersive content is great.
Show threadsoftmaus
@nicoreese I see. Would you purchase it again if it were broken / lost / etc?
Apr 7 at 7:27pmIceCubesApp