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charlesn said:

Serious question; what's with Apple Insider's negative headlines about Vision Pro? Apple sold half its sales target for 2024 in the first few hours of pre-orders and your headline takeaway the other day was that they were "struggling" to market it. Now you headline the 150 native apps available as "few and far between." As you acknowledge several paragraphs down, VP hardware for developers has been in limited supply, and even for those who've received it, how much time have they actually had to develop for a new computing platform that's unlike anything we've seen before? Do you actually think it's news to first year buyers of Vision Pro that current availability of native apps isn't robust? I'm thinking that anyone spending $3500 to buy v1.0 of Vision Pro now knows exactly what they're buying into. 

Serious answer: This is information of value to the public. We have a lot of different opinions here on staff when it comes to AVP, and we let the editors say the things they think are worth saying. Obviously we ensure what we write is factually correct, but as a rule we try not to edit perspective or voice. Saying "look how many they sold!" and then in the same breath saying "obviously everybody knows what they're getting" rings hollow to me. You think 180K developers bought the headset? Apple certainly doesn't agree, because that's not how they've selling it. So, the answer is yes. Absolutely. I suspect lots of people bought this thing on an questionable promise.

Our job is not to cover Apple only in a positive light. There's a lot of exciting stuff about the Vision Pro, and those articles exist on this website as well.

lazespud said:

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Uh... you know they completely mucked the first one up like five years ago, right? It's now a parade of "click here to watch this video to earn this rake" and crap like this. God those popcap games were so perfect; you paid your amount, got great gameplay and were never bugged again. But after EA they actually went back and completely messed up even the non-freemium original.
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My heart belongs to Peggle and long Gryphon flights across Azeroth 🧙‍♂️

Yeahh.... i'm just going to go ahead and lock this thread. Good job ruining it for everybody, post that I deleted

brianus said:

9secondkox2 said:

Is it as high-fidelity? No. High spec? No. But is it the path Apple should have taken? Absolutely. 

An Apple-branded version of Xreal with retina resolution in each eye, full Mac and iPad Pro compatibility, allowing an extension of the connected device's multitasking to your entire FoV -- that would be an instant sale for me at $2k, maybe even $3k depending on the specs.

We'll get there eventually, but it's going to take quite a while. The 'final form' of all these headsets is basically sunglasses 

Calvinator said:

I can't wait for Washington's birthday. Or Lincoln's. Apple must really be cooking up an extravaganza to celebrate two men without whom our nation would not exist. I suppose it would be asking too much to do anything for Jefferson.

President's day exists...