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appleric said:

As a site developer I find it almost impossible to make any updates to Apple Maps for my clients. Sometime last year they changed how this was done, and now requires the business owner to log in with their Apple ID. It makes it now impossible to serve my clients like it used to be, and how it is with Google Maps. Apple Maps keeps screwing up, while also providing some great new features. I just wish they would make this easier to make updates to one's business listing. 

I make updates to stores that are not mine all the time. We had a Peruvian Chicken store that was marked as permanently closed and I updated the listing. Also changed some stores' hours of operation and location. I feel Apple is relatively responsive, it takes them about three days to verify the request and make the change.

Having said that, last year I found more "Permanently Closed" restaurants on Apple Maps than usual. I assumed it was due to Covid, and that now that things have changed they opened back up again?

loumazz said:

Apple not struggling - THIS IS NOT A MASS_MARKET DEVICE (yet, maybe never).

The Vision Pro is a technology tour-de-force.  It will appeal to people who can afford to play with it.  But that's not the target.
There are thousands of niche apps in training, maintenance, spatial data analysis et al that have been waiting decades for a device like this.
That's going to constitute the initial market, and demand is big - IN THAT SMALLish MARKET.

To those who say "there's no market for a $3,500 gaming device of consumer" - you are absolutely right.
But by then concluding that there is no market for VIsionPro is, um, short-sighted.

Apple's innovation in this space is the entire OS designed and written around using a computer in VR, hence the name Spacial Computing. It is the first step into the future, those niche markets you mentioned are already being fulfilled by HoloLens. Apple has a greater vision that many are failing to see, the OS. Steve Jobs spoke about the desire to have headphones for the eyes. The tech looks dorky, but will improve over time.

The high cost is temporary and is due to creating a product in its best form for mass consumption. Custom fit products are the way of the future. 3D printing and individualized product development are on the horizon, I feel this is Apple's early entry of this untapped market.

I hope they integrate charge by movement, a tried and tested tech for low power devices such as analog watches. I often wonder why car Tire Pressure Monitors don't adopt the technology, it's so wasteful to toss out all your TPMs each time their battery dies. It's in a rotating tire for the love of God!!

I am curious if he tried Microsoft's HoloLens.

For the prescription glasses, I assume you'd need to order a different prescription if you wear progressives.