Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried the Apple Vision Pro spatial computer yet still claims that his company’s Quest 3 AR/VR headset is “the best product, period.”
The Vision Pro grabbed headlines as celebrities including Diplo and T-Pain wore it in public, with the “passthrough” feature allowing them to see their surroundings while using it.
But in a video shot using the Meta Quest 3’s own passthrough, Zuckerberg insisted his company’s headset is “the best product, period.”
“I think Quest is the better product, period,” he said… “It seems like there are a lot of people who just assumed that Vision Pro would be higher quality because it’s Apple and it costs $3,000 (£2,400) more. But honestly, I’m pretty surprised that Quest is so much better for the vast majority of things that people use these headsets for with that price differential.”
MacDailyNews Take: Dude sounds like a delusional Nokia or Research In Motion CEO circa 2007. Put down the pipe and your cheap toy’s plastic hand controllers, Marky.
See also:
• Gizmodo reviews Apple Vision Pro: ‘Beautiful and very impressive’ – February 13, 2024
• Engadget reviews Apple Vision Pro: ‘It’s magical, almost telepathic’ – February 9, 2024
• CNBC reviews Apple Vision Pro: ‘The future of computing and entertainment’ – January 30, 2024
• Tom’s Guide hands-on with Apple Vision Pro: ‘Feels like the future of computing’ – January 19, 2024
• Apple’s Vision Pro is provoking ‘audible gasps’ from developers – August 25, 2023
• Work on Apple Vision Pro began under Steve Jobs – August 23, 2023
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In a perfect world, the next quote you’d hear from the following buffoons would be, “You want fries with that?”
• “[iPhone] just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced everywhere else in the world. It’s no longer a novelty.” – Eamon Hoey, Hoey and Associates, April 30, 2008
• “We are not at all worried. We think we’ve got the one mobile platform you’ll use for the rest of your life. [Apple] are not going to catch up.” – Scott Rockfeld, Microsoft Mobile Communications Group Product Manager, April 01, 2008
• “Microsoft, with Windows Mobile/ActiveSync, Nokia with Intellisync, and Motorola with Good Technology have all fared poorly in the enterprise. We have no reason to expect otherwise from Apple.” – Peter Misek, Canaccord Adams analyst, March 07, 2008
• “[Apple should sell 7.9 million iPhones in 2008]… Apple’s goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year is optimistic.” – Toni Sacconaghi, Bernstein Research analyst, February 22, 2008
• “What does the iPhone offer that other cell phones do not already offer, or will offer soon? The answer is not very much… Apple’s stated goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 seems ambitious.” – Laura Goldman, LSG Capital, May 21, 2007
• Motorola’s then-Chairman and then-CEO Ed Zander said his company was ready for competition from Apple’s iPhone, due out the following month. “How do you deal with that?” Zander was asked at the Software 2007 conference. Zander quickly retorted, “How do they deal with us?” – Ed Zander, May 10, 2007
• “The iPhone is going to be nothing more than a temporary novelty that will eventually wear off.” – Gundeep Hora, CoolTechZone Editor-in-Chief, April 02, 2007
• “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone… What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures… Otherwise I’d advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you’ll see.” – John C. Dvorak, Bloated Gas Bag, March 28, 2007
• “Even if [the iPhone] is opened up to third parties, it is difficult to see how the installed base of iPhones can reach the level where it becomes a truly attractive service platform for operator and developer investment.” – Tony Cripps, Ovum Service Manager for Mobile User Experience, March 14, 2007
• “I’m more convinced than ever that, after an initial frenzy of publicity and sales to early adopters, iPhone sales will be unspectacular… iPhone may well become Apple’s next Newton.” – David Haskin, Computerworld, February 26, 2007
• “There’s an old saying — stick to your knitting — and Apple is not a mobile phone manufacturer, that’s not their knitting… I think people overreacted to it — there was not a lot of tremendously new stuff if you think about it.” – Greg Winn, Telstra’s operations chief, February 15, 2007
• “Consumers are not used to paying another couple hundred bucks more just because Apple makes a cool product. Some fans will buy [iPhone], but for the rest of us it’s a hard pill to swallow just to have the coolest thing.” – Neil Strother, NPD Group analyst, January 22, 2007
• “I can’t believe the hype being given to iPhone… I just have to wonder who will want one of these things (other than the religious faithful)… So please mark this post and come back in two years to see the results of my prediction: I predict they will not sell anywhere near the 10M Jobs predicts for 2008.” – Richard Sprague, Microsoft Senior Marketing Director, January 18, 2007
• “The iPhone’s willful disregard of the global handset market will come back to haunt Apple.” – Tero Kuittinen, RealMoney.com, January 18, 2007
• “[Apple’s iPhone] is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine… So, I, I kinda look at that and I say, well, I like our strategy. I like it a lot.” – Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, January 17, 2007
• “The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant… Apple is unlikely to make much of an impact on this market… Apple will sell a few to its fans, but the iPhone won’t make a long-term mark on the industry.” – Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg, January 15, 2007
• “iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these… And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.” – John C. Dvorak, Bloated Gas Bag, January 13, 2007
• “I am pretty skeptical. I don’t think [iPhone] will meet the fantastic predictions I have been reading. For starters, while Apple basically established the market for portable music players, the phone market is already established, with a number of major brands. Can Apple remake the phone market in its image? Success is far from guaranteed.” – Jack Gold, founder and principal analyst at J. Gold Associates, January 11, 2007
• “Apple will launch a mobile phone in January, and it will become available during 2007. It will be a lovely bit of kit, a pleasure to behold, and its limited functionality will be easy to access and use. The Apple phone will be exclusive to one of the major networks in each territory and some customers will switch networks just to get it, but not as many as had been hoped. As customers start to realise that the competition offers better functionality at a lower price, by negotiating a better subsidy, sales will stagnate. After a year a new version will be launched, but it will lack the innovation of the first and quickly vanish. The only question remaining is if, when the iPod phone fails, it will take the iPod with it.” – Bill Ray, The Register, December 26, 2006
• “The economics of something like [an Apple iPhone] aren’t that compelling.” – Rod Bare, Morningstar analyst, December 08, 2006
• “Apple is slated to come out with a new phone… And it will largely fail…. Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cell phones, wireless routers and other would-be hits… When the iPod emerged in late 2001, it solved some major problems with MP3 players. Unfortunately for Apple, problems like that don’t exist in the handset business. Cell phones aren’t clunky, inadequate devices. Instead, they are pretty good. Really good.” – Michael Kanellos, CNET, December 07, 2006
• “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” – Ed Colligan, Palm CEO, November 16, 2006
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Here we are… a tell that this is a war, it’s on and Apple will win.
Must really suck to have to back your own product knowing full well…
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Hilarious, Dude!
Steve Baller’s response to the release of iPhone. Is this proof that Steve is Mark’s biological father? lol.
Who cares about this idiot and what he thinks. Apple Vision is one of the best product that was ever made. I would love to have one but it is a little bit too expensive for me. This can revolutionize how we watch movies, TV and other entertainment. Computing I don’t know because I still love my Mac.
I have never tried a Meta Quest 3 but I can imagine why Zuckerberg thinks it’s better than the AVP:
MQ3 probably comes with ads to the left and right and all over.
There is no privacy. All data will end up on Meta’s servers.
Everything you see, hear and do will be copyright owned by Meta.
Fair and insightful review:
no way Zuckerberg’s is better. Total BS
Mark Zuckerberg Presentation: “Today Meta is proud to introduce our new product, ‘The Zuckerberg’. It stands at the side of any room, reciting bullet points from a Powerpoint that it projects on the wall via a hidden camera in its belly button . . . The Zuckerberg does not blink, or move in any sudden way. It’s the perfect device to lull your children into a coma-like state via a series of monotone phrases and utterances.”
This is comedy gold! You should make a youtube parody channel for the Zuckerberg. It harvests your personal date, censors free speech and promotes group think. Have it glitch weird out of context ads, intrude it’s self in the corner of family meals and special occasions, randomly wake up kids late at night with useless info. Shot of it sleeping between a couple in bed giving weird and horrible relationships advice. A Zuckerberg everywhere, sitting in the back seat of the mini van, basically terrorizing all aspects of family life, you never see it move but it weirdly photobombs every shot. As time passes all the family members start to transform in a Zuckerberg clone. The dog is always barking out it, the dog chews on its plastic leg, the dog pees on it, In the ending shot you reveal a Zuckerberg has taken over every home with entire populations frozen into a Zuckerberg stance in a dystopian Suburban, nightmare.
Had Apple stayed with its original intent to have iPhone be exclusive to a single carrier in each territory, it would indeed have failed. When the 4s came out as an “all carriers” design, iPhone passed its last hurdle to become the standard; Android, as an “all carriers” design from its beginnings, would have eaten Apple’s lunch with its stolen intellectual property.
Steve Jobs often had great ideas in broad, with really crappy details; he was lucky to have other people around who could convince him that those details needed fixing.