Totally agree. This article makes me even happier about buying the Vision Pro:
Earlier this week, a report suggested that Apple has shifted its focus from developing a next-generation Vision Pro to a...
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Thanks for the link! I wouldn’t mind at all if their less expensive, less bulky version designed for mass market appeal requires a iPhone. I’m already used to walking around with the battery pack for the AVP in my pocket anyway.
If they integrate the battery into the headset and your iPhone is used on the less expensive version for some processing power and it’s Internet connection (WiFi and/or cellular) and the devices use Bluetooth to connect so there is no actual wire from the device into your pocket, I’d be fine with that. In fact I’d rather have that kind of a setup than to need a wired battery pack to power it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The Apple Vision Pro is a glimpse into the future and an opportunity for Apple to get the tech as it presently exists and more importantly the OS, the dev tools, apps and a fledgling user base out there.
This early iteration was not designed for mass market appeal. No device priced this high could be a mass market hit with a user base of the size of the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook or even the Apple TV.
The tech simply isn’t there yet but I also strongly believe after using it that if the tech does eventually allow for spatial computing in an AR glasses style form factor then that device will be something that either replaces or heavily augments the smart phone and its much better to be not only ahead of that train but to be helping to conduct it than it would be to be caught flat footed in the way they were when AI came onto the scene.
Making the hardware along with the software and offering services around them both is Apple’s business model. If they don’t produce the hardware behind whatever the next big platform in personal computing turns out to be then they are in a world of hurt and may not get a second shot in they way they are getting it with the raise of AI because at the end of the day the software and services to deliver on AI still run on the platforms that Apple deals heavily in.