Will the Vision Pro be the new Touchbar (kinda of awful and will be silently discarded) or the new Apple Watch (doing ok, but not amazing)?
We'll know in a few years.
Will the Vision Pro be the new Touchbar (kinda of awful and will be silently discarded) or the new Apple Watch (doing ok, but not amazing)?
We'll know in a few years.
@Tijn I liked those!
@thomasfuchs However it will end up, it's definitely not going to be the amazing-yet-quickly-discarded charge lights at the side of your laptop showing the current battery status 😭
@mcspadden The iPhone was a continuation of products people already used, but better.
The Vision Pro is a continuation of products people have largely rejected for 40 years.
@thomasfuchs or is it the iPhone?
@thomasfuchs For years, I've said that Apple's core expertise isn't technology, it's fashion accessories. So I wouldn't be surprised if Vision Pro becomes the new signifier of tech coolness. Whether or not it's any good.
@mikeloukides maybe, but you can’t wear it out unlike iPods or phones or watches
@thomasfuchs well, unlike the Touvhbar, I will bet money they actually update the hardware and software for the Vision.
Doesn’t guarantee success. But completely abandoning the Touchbar helped guarantee failure
@FeralRobots it’s kind of exploratory market surgery
@thomasfuchs Do you think VisionPro is really intended as a viable product, or is it essentially market R&D?
@thomasfuchs With the amount they’ve invested in this, I think they’re going to keep plugging away at it for several years even if it’s flopping hard.
@thomasfuchs I wonder if they would consider an Apple Watch level of impact a success or failure? Certainly the ambition here seems much larger.
@jjoelson the Apple Watch didn’t set out to revolutionize computing, it’s just a watch (very established product category) with some extra features, mainly health tracking stuff; it’s not exactly been a runaway success but it’s also not a dud
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