Apple is reportedly preparing to start selling its Apple Vision Pro spatial computer in markets outside the U.S., including Germany, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and China.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
The company plans to bring the Vision Pro to international markets for the first time after its Worldwide Developers Conference early next month, the people said.
Apple has maintained its usual secrecy and hasn’t told employees in the training sessions where exactly the Vision Pro will be available. But the company is training workers from Germany, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and China, indicating that those areas will be some of the first international markets for the device.
Though the headset saw a surge of interest out of the gate in the US, demand has died down and some retail stores are selling only a couple of units per week at most, Bloomberg News has reported. The number of appointments for demos has also declined significantly, with some stores saying that some customers book demos and never actually show up.
Overseas customers have been able to get the Vision Pro through unofficial resellers, and there was an initial burst of demand through those channels. But consumers in places like Hong Kong are now seeing the gadget resold below the retail price.
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Boy, could I care less. Vision Pro is the modern equivalent of Pippin, and I do not know what the **** anyone at Apple was thinking. Phones are bad enough for people; they think this will be better? Pfft. Apple is no longer a serious company, and believe me, some of us are really, really hoping for a serious company to accomplish what we need to do – I will switch today if my options extend beyond Windows. Vision Pro is pretty much Gen Z idiocy consolidated into a very expensive product. F*** you, Apple. Just f*** you.
Get a life loser.
How many of these things will be at the bottom of a sock drawer in a year when people get tired of strapping this device onto their face.
Seeing somebody on a plane wearing this thing, i may not be able to control my laughter.
The Apple Vision Pro is one of the most absurd devices I can recall in recent times. It is truly a lawn mower with wings. How bulky it is. That it needs to be strapped to your face. It’s heavy. It has an external battery that is tethered via a cable. And VR not only doesn’t solve that many problems, it creates a bunch.
It’s as ridiculous as a 1980s portable briefcase computer.
They said similar things about the original iPad too. And remember John Dvorak’s nonsensical comments about iPhone and other innovations. Jokes referred to the iPad as “sounds like a tampon” when Steve introduced it. No one’s laughing now; and hardly anyone thinks like Dswe today either. As they say, time will tell. The first automobiles were almost outlawed for being stinky; noisy; dangerous to pedestrians; and allegations that they could cause many deaths by spooking all of the horses.
Fallacious arguments. A tablet is not like a VR headset. The iPad uses the same input mode as the iPhone which people had bought in droves for 3 years prior to its launch.
iPad has not been a runaway success. Sales declined over the years and many people stopped using tablets because smartphone screens got big. VR is flawed and the AVP is a horrible design.
@dswe
Yup. At the time I was one that thought, ‘Ditch your Mac! The iPad is all you need!’, was complete and utter nonsense (and it was). That the iPad is virtually a dead device speaks volumes. Even Microsoft was smart enough to jettison their Surface ambitions.
This is a company that has lost its way in a fashion that is actually difficult to elucidate, it really does make the head spin, if one has been around for the long haul. It is actually legitimately confusing. If they did not have the largest coffers on Earth, they’d be dead by now.
Microsoft in the 90s was terrible, but they were somehow, even given all that they were, and it was indeed terrible, not as soulless as modern Apple. This is a company without a face, and I mean truly – modern Apple is about as a generic distillation of something formerly incredible as you could get; I would never have imagined we’d end up here in my wildest dreams. And yet, here we are. 😐
I beg of you smart and industrious people: make us an alternative that is not just another Linux distro (that is also a dead end). SO many of us would jump on board at this point. I would even be satisfied if someone just made a viable alternative to the iPhone that didn’t run on Android. the M class of chips are actually quite, quite good for Macs; let’s hope they don’t decide that is trivial, and a new mobile OS that 100% disparages iOS or Android would be the cats pajamas.
Meh. In all honesty, Pippin was a more relevant device. I do not know what made Apple decide that Google Glass 2.0 was a good idea – it is impractical on so many levels it boggles the mind. VR was kinda fun when it was a mall demo.
This is just more evidence that Apple went from being the most brilliant tech company on earth to something I now yawn about. For the love of all the gods, somebody make a viable alternative, because between this dumpster fire of a product and the recent ‘pride’ wallpaper – I am embarrassed to recommend Apple to people. It’s six and a half dozen between MS, Google, and Apple when all of them are inherited mediocre byproducts of people that were a whole lot smarter and in tune. Vision Pro is electronic and very expensive toilet paper.
I’d say, ‘Do better, Apple.’, but I very sincerely don’t think the modern company as it is currently constituted can. They just aren’t capable of ‘vision’ anymore.