Apple is not exactly downgrading the cheaper Vision Pros but there will be massive changes.

  • @Death_Equity
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    27 months ago

    Sounds like a successful product launch, good enough to justify a second product in the line.

    The rich flexing inspires desire. People don’t want a Lamborghini because it is the best car, they want a Lamborghini because they envy people who have one.

    • Mbourgon everywhere
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      27 months ago

      Go do the demo. It is honestly really impressive. Had no intention of doing it, I’m not the target demographic or audience, but I was there to get a battery replaced and while I waited they did it. My jaw dropped at least twice.

      I’m at a loss for the kind of things it can do for me day-to-day right now (and yeah, they have to come up with good selling points there), but for a virtual desktop I’d be there if it were cheaper. But you kinda see where they’re heading - glasses where you could read the web, check weather, watch tv, or play games, the UI, and the phone is just a computing brick that sits in your pocket all day

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      The “aspirational brand” value is a bit of Apple-ception, though. The really, really, luxury-level wealthy people buying Vision Pro, to inspire the just really wealthy people to buy the Vision Basic or whatever it’s called. It still is the price of the highest-end iPhone, and it’s far less functional.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if they treated the Vision Pro as Apple’s version of the beta product - top-down rather than bottom-up testing.

    • @db2
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      17 months ago

      I don’t want a Lamborghini, what does that mean?

      • @Death_Equity
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        47 months ago

        Your calves are defined and your bank account can barely hold a comma?

        • @db2
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          27 months ago

          Accurate.