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Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets

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Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets::Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers. Apple began...

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Is that supposed to be a lot? I can't tell.
- Almost $700,000,000 in revenue if you multiply the price by the amount sold.
  
  Aight
  that's a fair bit
- I’d say that’s certainly enough to attract developers given it’s barely out.
I am insanely interested but the apple ecosystem sucks. I use a MacBook for work because it's that or Windows, but good lord do i hate the closed source walled garden. Linux at home ftw.
- MacOS is waaay better for that than iOS though. If you squint a little and try to stick to the CLI, you can pretend it's Linux.
  
  Or, run docker and have actual Linux.
- I LOVE LOVE LOVE how I can open the screen on my mac and immediately continue where I left off. I love how the entire laptop is made out of metal that doesn't bend or warp and whose hinge works today just like it did half a decade ago.
  I hate everything else about the mac, especially how I have to pay inflated prices for everything. I hate even more about how fucking hard it is to get into the actual nitty gritty system settings on a mac. If I could find a reasonably priced laptop with great build quality and immediate boot, I'd throw my mac in the garbage or sell it off to someone else who would appreciate it much more.
  I guess I dont really need to mention I'm poor. If I wasnt Id already have got a second laptop that ran not-macOS
- macOS isn’t walled…
  
  As someone who has to support MacOS desktop....... It functionally is?
  Ok sure, it's not as bad as Android or iOS, but it's far from "anyone can simply download and run"
I never knew so many people would buy an AR headset of apple.
- I'm not surprised so many would buy it, but it surprised we reached this number before the first reviews. That a brand new line of product and I'm not even sure what people will use it for 😶
  
  Yea ... I personally don't get it ... but people are down for it.
  The biggest example I've seen people excited about is office work ... instead of screens it's all just a VR. On which I'm expecting to see posts/blogs about why that doesn't work too well in the long term. I just don't see a big heavy thing on your face working out as a product. And while Apple may have done a lot of things well here, they haven't gotten around that essential problem it seems (??) and may have jumped the gun here out of desparation to find new product markets. For me this is a 50/50 as their first major flop in a while (does homepod count?)
  
  Porn?
  
  I would bet a lot of these purchases are people who are hoping to build something for it and cash in on the first wave of adopters. I know a lot of developers that have bought one as a business expense … or “business expense”.
  
  I thought the same thing when the Apple Watch first released. Smart watches had been around for a while, but they didn’t become prolific until Apple joined the party.
  I don’t think Vision is going to be as prolific by any means, but I expect to see it fairly commonly in 5 years. The price will come down, the ecosystem will grow, and it’ll find its niche.
  
  I’m not even sure what people will use it for
  Bragging?
- I'm assuming the numbers must include retail stores purchasing the product to sell to their customers too? Or are these direct to consumer numbers only?
  
  I think many scalpers are in there too.
First reviews I saw on YouTube are quite disappointing. They really ship it with a powerbank and even without it this thing weights about 600 grams. I cannot imagine wearing this thing all day and do work or eh … what the fuck are you gonna do with this besides games and watching videos??
- Games? It doesn't even have controllers. There's going to be no HL Alyx on this thing.
  The only interesting thing I've seen is that Disney have suddenly woken up and decided to put their 3D movies on it, so hopefully they'll end up on the other millions of VR headsets as well, or at least get released in a format I can steal and watch however I want...
- The ecosystem will grow around it. You need to build it first, and then devs will build their stuff on top of the hardware you build.
  
  The ecosystem will grow around it.
  Like mold.
  
  I live in So Cal and in a couple weeks there will be a vintage computing fest. Maybe all the haters and people downvoting you could show up and find out what people used to pay $10,000 to put up with. It’s like they want nothing novel to exist.
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- How's it any different than regular VR sets besides price? I don't own any apple stuff besides an iPad for my kid, but outside of the absurd cost I don't see the difference between this and the Index or something.
  
  People like to find any reason to hate on Apple.
  And there are plenty of reasons to hate them, but just for releasing a product is very low on the list.
  Had HTC or Valve released this, there'd be constant praise on here.
Has anybody seen the movie WALL-E?
It's probably a bit of a stretch, but I feel like this is somehow the genesis/precursor of the hoverchairs that all the adults use for everything.
(God, I hope not.)
- Have you ever seen a group of 20something friends at dinner together where each person was on their phone ignoring the others? At least with the Apple headset they would be deliberate about their intentions.
  
  Wouldn’t be so sure about that. Now they can look at their screens and maintain eye contact. Sounds like a win/win to me.
- Buy N Large AI Chairs
These things somehow look even dumber than Google Glass, but Apple made them, so I guess they are the height of fashion now...
I'm impressed. It speaks to the strength of the Apple brand. Meta should benefit if this becomes the next thing despite the differences.
- Hopefully it will push the AR/VR industry forward.
  I’ve been expecting this to be the new iPhone in that I think it has the potential to transform consumer perceptions and the industry. I’m personally waiting for reviews and a hands on test because my eyesight is crap. If it makes it so I can use a non-blurry monitor (my vision isn’t correctable to the point that I can easily read a monitor, and I compensate by using the best and sharpest I can find), it would be life changing for me and easily worth the $4k or whatever the final cost is after taxes and lenses and such.
  But, like with iPhone, I think it just gets better from here and that the use cases developed using the high end headset will cascade through the industry.
  
  It will push it in the wrong direction for me. It pushes VR/AR headset to be closed in one ecosystem, low repairability and no software freedom. It should go the other way and a heck lot cheaper than what apple does.
  
  If you have bad eyesight, VR won't help you. The goggles contain lenses to magnify and project the screens to a virtual distance from your eyeballs similar to a monitor.
  You'll still need your glasses, I'm afraid.
- I dont really think it speaks for the strength of the Apple brand, rather, how many fan-boys they have that buy literally a rock with an apple logo on it for $10k. Knowing well they cant use it anywhere except with apple products.
  
  Fanboys who will buy anything Apple… that is what “strength of the brand” /means/
  
  It's a very minimalistic and beautiful rock tho
  
  Also a lot of people like being “the first”. Especially with products that might be successful. Currently Apple has a decent reputation in being “the first” with their adaption of new tech. They made the smartphone big, the tablet and the smartwatch (they even specifically made gold ones for these early adopters). All “meh products” before their version. Now people want to be the first with “the next successful tech”. …. And you are going to love it.
  It al comes down to emotion really.
  Can’t wait for the first music video clip with a famous person wearing the thing. (I actually can wait).
Dystopian future full send

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