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visionOS 2 is a promising update with tons of new features
Pema said:This all looks great. What isn't great is that the Vision Pro is too expensive. There are no tiers like with any other major Apple product. You can customise the latest MacBook M3 to your budget. Likewise you can select the iPhone you can afford/or need and customise that to your budget.
Not with the Vision Pro. It's like Henry Ford's mantra: you can have any colour you like as long as it's black.
I cannot begin to imagine Apple releasing just the one iPhone model: iPhone Pro Max specced to the hilt at $2200 USD. For starters not many people can afford to spend that much on a phone, neither do all users need that level of iPhone.
The Vision Pro looks to be a truly revolutionary product in the mixed reality headset space, but at $3500 USD per unit it is too rich for me.
The other problem is the buyer needs to go into the Apple store to be fitted for the product. Another impediment.
There is no trade-in for the Vision Pro! to bring the cost down.
I would suggest that somewhere along the line Apple botched this product from wow to go.
Tim Cook needed a headline grabbing product and pushed for its release before it was ready. Hopefully when Apple re-releases the Vision Basic in 2025/2026 it will have refined the product to the point of where the main features of the Vision Pro trickle down to the Vision Basic, plus the hardware costs will have been streamlined and on mass production cost less.
I am a buyer at $1500 USD. That's it.
Can I afford to wait to 2025/2026? Well, I haven't been lying back dreaming I must have a mixed reality headset that will drain my wallet out of $3500 USD.
The iPhone is a different paradigm. I often do think of the next release and what it can do for me. The iPhone 16 looks like a winner. And I will be upgrading. And after the trade-in it will run me appx. $900 USD. I can stomach that.
The good news is that Apple is not a one-trick pony like Humane who put all their eggs in one basket and now are shopping their omelette for a buyer.
Most likely HP. They usually buy obsolete technologies. Palm O/S - remember that?
Not sure I’d make a comparison for the VP and iPhone. But since you did, when the iPhone originally came out, you had to buy it outright without a subsidy. Prior to iPhone, people could “buy” a phone for about 1/2 the actual cost but committed to an annual or 2 year plan - generally 2 year. It was then the public found out how much their actual phones costs and the industry changed.
$3500 isn’t a high price for what you are getting with the VP if you take everything in to consideration. It’s a full computer where the world is your monitor. Rather magical, really. And if you look at other high quality Augmented Reality devices out there, you’ll gain a better understanding of where the technology is and what it takes to get it out there.
Costs will come down as development continues. Consider the first PC my family had was an Apple ][ with two 5-1/4” floppy drives, monitor, printer, etc. cost what I calculated to be over $10K in today’s dollars.
