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/
@marcoarment It was a trial product that the market clearly didn’t want. I’m sure that several years on they could produce a better one, but indicators told them not to. 🤷♂️
I don’t regret not buying one, much the same way I don’t regret buying the first iPhone, (or the first Mac).
@bkoehn @marcoarment I was and really still am interested, but not at the price they are. I wish they would've continued to iterate and reduce the price.
But also, I with they would've just let it be run by an iPhone. It would've been cheaper but still better.
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