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coolfactor said:

I hope that Apple sticks to this. As a matter of principle.

Apple Intelligence will be so deeply integrated, but they must be building it in such a way where it can be disabled regionally. Interesting. Will VPNs trick it?

If not, maybe this is an opportunity for a developer to create a VPN that allows for this functionality.  If the EU wants to continue passing laws without understanding the technology, workarounds could be the solution. 

CheeseFreeze said:

I have an Apple Vision Pro. It’s a devkit version and got it for free. The only real difference with the final version is that there’s an additional USB-C port and tiny cable sticking out. 

It’s clumsy and uncomfortable to wear. It’s too heavy. The face mask thingie connects magnetically and constantly falls off when you pick it up. 

The external battery feels like I’m using an old school HTC Vive again.

But the biggest problem is: there is not much you can do with it. You have your apps, like Mail, but it’s easier and more productive to use your MacBook or iPhone. 

You can have multiple screens all around you but I never wanted that anyway. Not if I have to lose out on productivity. The eye tracking and select gesture works really well but it doesn’t replace a keyboard and mouse.
Most games are projected flat, on a place - yes, 3D games. Some of them are nice but there’s not a single game that is an instant hit like Beat Saber. The FaceTime avatar is nice but incredibly creepy. I tried it with a coworker who has an AVP as well.

There is no real added value compared to, say, a Meta Quest 3, even with the very useful eye tracking. The content discovery experience is sterile, cold, boring, while the Quest has amazing games and simply ‘knows’ that it is its own medium and not trying to be a new sort of computer for productivity.
Similarly the AVP provides no added value to a phone, desktop or tablet either. 

AVP is one of these few initiatives at Apple that will not pan out. They have the money to keep it alive but it’s clear they don’t know what to do with their own invention. 

It sounds like you’re not the customer for this product. Your complaints about comfort and use cases are subjective. You find it uncomfortable, but others are fine with the comfort. You prefer to use a single screen interface on a MacBook or iPhone, but others are more productive having multiple screens to work with in the spatial environment. I think FaceTime calls using the Persona is one of the best features, but others may disagree.  You complain about the light seal detaching, but mine has never detached accidentally because I don’t try to pick up the device by the light seal.

For a first generation product, I am blown away by how refined and useful the Vision Pro is.  It is not for everyone, as no product is, but I have no doubt that Apple has a long term vision and road map for this device.  For those with a good imagination about where this technology could go, that is exciting.

This the same firm that exited a large position in TSM when it was under $100/share before it more than doubled.  They also exited IBM before the run up, and sold airlines at the bottom in 2020.  Plenty of examples of poor decisions, as all investors have.  The fact that the firm sold more shares doesn’t seem to reflect negative stock performance — if anything, it probably means the stock will grind higher.