Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day
Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day
Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day::Despite expectations, Apple has failed to sell out of its Vision Pro on launch day. This is despite estimates of day 1 availability being limited to between 60,000 and 80,000 units.
Cause No one wants to pay this much for a VR headset that doesn't even run any games. Except for the usual fanboys that would buy everything from the fruit company.
It doesn't run games? What is it actually expected to be used for then, for the average consumer? The only things Ive really seen VR used for thus far are games or game-like social apps, and some commercial purposes like certain kinds of training. Since this looks like it's been sold to individual consumers then, what are they expecting the use case to be?
Netflix, video calls and looking at old pictures is the impression I got.
The Internet tells me it's a good contender for enterprise as a similar headset that doesn't need a computer to work costs about $5k+. So I guess the fact it's being sold to consumers is just to ice the proverbial enterprise made money cake. And since so many major consumer apps are saying no to supporting the headset it's gotta sell in the enterprise world or find a super niche of well to do hackers, given it's cost, to keep it alive.
The second hand market in a couple years will be very telling of how well it did and is doing.
It won’t even run all iPad apps since the developers of some major apps (Netflix, etc) have disabled that function. I don’t think anyone wants Apple to have as much control as they do for the iOS App Store. We also haven’t been shown a compelling reason to spend that much money on a new product and ecosystem when 99% of the computing we do is always with us. I love Apple products and I have zero interest in Vision Pro.
Exactly and also its for different market, it's not for an every day user.
Apples gonna apple
not selling out should be a good thing. It means they produced enough to match the demand. Selling out means they failed to estimate the demand or their supply chain failed.
The apple watch also failed to sell well initially. Now just about everyone has one. I don't own a single apple product, but the one thing Apple has going for it with new tech is that they invest in their ecosystem and don't give up on products too quickly.
The fact that they did a launch of a new product line without another keynote talk tells me they know it is not a consumer level device yet. We will likely see them hype up the gen 2/3 version once some killer app feature is developed or they release a more affordable tier. Like the Apple Watch was a bit unanchored until it leaned into the heath tech. You are right Apple doesn’t normally abandon product lines so hopefully they work through it and figure out a mass market appeal.
The limited production numbers indicate that too. They're essentially banking on using fanboys (no negative connotation here) to beta test and see what they gravitate towards, and where it shines. Then like the health stuff for the watch, they'll capitalize on whatever the standout becomes and sort of cater development around it for mass appeal.
"dont give up on products too quickly"? Whats with repairability or any iphone older than the newest iteration? They ditch any "real" support for it almost immediate after the next release.
Yeah, Apple stuff doesn’t usually get good enough for widespread use until the 3rd generation or so. That was true for Mac OS X, iPod, iPhone, et cetera.
Having worked with folks developing VR/AR tech for “Real Work” and not for the average consumer (for instance, medical education), I’ve seen what current VR/AR tech is like (it’s not great) and the developers I’ve worked with are super excited about Apple’s headset.
AR/VR dev here: the cost of the platform itself, and associated apple bullshit means I will never be targeting their platform. YMMV.
I guess the downvotes are from the Apple fans ? Lol
Pretty sure it's because the title is wildly misleading. They moved the release window to accommodate additional demand. They absolutely sold out of what they had originally intended on manufacturing.
Seems like a clickbait title, based on other articles I’ve read.
What!?!? Why won't people pay for a $3500 device that might give you neck pain but allows you to browse the web, watch videos, or...um...browse the web for 2 hours at a time?
Ship dates slipped to march on day 1, not sure why this wasn’t considered selling out.
Apple needs to skip this asap and get to their version of xreal glasses.
It’s all steps on the product dev line. The smart glasses aren’t ready and won’t be for a few years. This gives devs a chance to start building apps for the new platform.
From what I hear these are surprisingly close and some idiot is absolutely gonna try to drive in them. Given that I bet we'll be there in just a couple of iterations
What about "Apple has managed to supply enough units of Vision Pro on day one"?
That would work except knowing apple. Their plan was Probably to sell out by deliberately limiting supply.
It is currently impossible to make more than 500,000 units per year due to their complexity. Less than that when you account for inevitable production defects.
So for the foreseeable future, Apple will be consistently failing to keep up with demand. They could charge $10,000 per unit and still not be able to keep up.
Fan-boy award unlocked!
I don't own any Apple device.
Looks like the base model DID sell out.