Apple’s Vision Pro is a bad product with an even worse vision for the future of computation.
New sales numbers prove it’s a failure, but more than that it shows the idea of tech’s inevitability is a myth. We have the collective power to stop tech that doesn’t serve us.
Building on what I was saying in this piece, Bloomberg reports:
“One [Apple Store] employee says they haven’t seen one Vision Pro purchase in weeks and that the number of returns equaled the device’s sales in the first month that it was available.”
@parismarx My greatest power is to just DGAF about stuff!
@parismarx By, like, not buying it. Like the dumbass Apple headset.
@parismarx This is the biggest product flop for Apple since Steve Jobs died. Unlike the “trashcan” Mac Pro, you can’t blame this one on Steve.
@parismarx it’s a very important thing to realize. Like stopping AI
@parismarx maybe read the real headlines instead of the false reports
FYI: https://www.uploadvr.com/apple-vision-pro-production-cut-claims-debunked/
@parismarx bro do you just post negativity or is there ever anything positive?
@parismarx It seems like the biggest failure is that it was pitched at the mass market without a good use case. VR is niche, and it’s mostly useful for video games and in the design industry, broadly constituted. Apple has little consumer trust in the former, but they do have a foothold in the design world, and the Vision Pro might have some success there; However, their marketing barely mentions industry, and it’s not a focus of their developer support.
@parismarx Like you say, it’s a case of making products for some magical “inevitable” future.
@parismarx Rarely read such nonsense
@darrh2024 @parismarx
I've pivoted back to VR, after that hot take.
@parismarx Agreed. I said in early February, "No matter how much Apple aggressively markets or Tim Cook enthusiastically declares, I do not believe the future of computing is something only available in Apple’s $3,500+ face-masking, person-secluding headset."
It seems very hard to look stupid or wrong in big-tech, at least to the busy masses. There is always some new shinier thing they can dangle to distract away from the last stupid thing, or some updated/new promise of the next thing.
So each "Cybertruck" owner and wannabe-owner bought a pair of goggles and after these 5000 that was it?
Why put a tethered screen on your face for $3500 when a 50" TV is under $1k?
@parismarx I don't think headsets will ever be mass market devices. Discomfort, headaches, nausea...maybe they'll be useful for surgeons or astronauts or car mechanics but for everyone else there's just not much to recommend them.
@parismarx @aral As were the iPod, iMac, iPhone and AppleWatch a few months after sales had begun. All gigantic, overhyped flops as we all know.
@parismarx It feels like Apple managed to make something that isn't for VR enthusiasts but also doesn't appeal to average folks...
Also just fyi - with JavaScript disabled, the site has black text on a dark grey background (in dark mode). Had to enable JavaScript in order to read it!
@eladnarra @parismarx
Yep, even DarkReader failed to make it readable without JS enabled