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Eshu Marneedi
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Technology blogger, unskilled jester, raconteur. Writer of stories long and short. Pastry connoisseur.
Two things can happen to the Vision *Pro*, the current $3,500 headset:
- It’ll be canned entirely and we’ll never hear about it again, or
- It’ll go the way of the HomePod and still be supported/sold, but with no future hardware updates
Both are equally likely, IMO.
Here’s my take on the Vision Pro team stuff: While I don’t think the entire team has been dismantled, I do think a lower-priced Vision Air or whatever is off the table. Maybe their software people have moved over to Federighi’s team as the product stabilized. But they’re all definitely still working on *some* Vision product, probably the AI glasses for later this year / next year, and the AR glasses far into the future. https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/on_the_future_of_apples_vision_platform
On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform
It’s certainly possible that this Vision thing isn’t going to work out and Apple *will* throw in the towel on it. But that hasn’t happened, and if it does, it’s not going to come out of nowhere as a story on MacRumors for the people in VPG working on it.
BREAKING NEWS: Apple made money. More at 11.
(Apologies for the late update.)
I guess this is what happens when you focus all of your product development on Codex, a product almost nobody outside of San Francisco has ever heard of. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920476/openai-chatgpt-downloads-slow-down-ipo
I think the only time I truly feel sympathy for Tim Cook is whenever I see a photo of him at some kind of White House affair, alone.
Call me a fake Death Cab fan but the bridge in “Punching the Flowers” is better than the chorus
I wrote about OpenAI and Anthropic’s token subsidization problem and why the current subscription plans will become unsustainable in (probably) the near future: https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/04/28/ais-token-subsidization-problem.html
AI’s Token Subsidization Problem
Berber Jin, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+): OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and revenue, stumbles that have raised concern among some company leaders about whether it will be able to support its massive spending on data centers.
From what I see, there seems no way to completely cancel a subscription you’ve “committed” to, even if you’re willing to pay a cancellation fee (like Adobe). Only “if your payment fails” will you be released from the commitment (which would bar you from any IAPs). 🖕 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/app-store-monthly-subscriptions-12-month-commitment/
