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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I won't lie, I dig this. Yes, there appear to be some issues that make it less than perfect, but it's a gen 1 product. When I buy into this, it'll likely be around gen 3, same as it was with iPhone.

But I don't like what Apple is. I don't like how quickly they're making formerly class-leading products obsolete these days. I think of the iPhone X, and how it was "the most advanced iPhone yet", and their promises of how future-proofed it was, only for it to suffer from OS rot just a few short years later. It's not planned obsolescence as such, it's just tech rushing along at a breathtaking pace. But it still leaves me uncomfortable at how expensive it is to feel like the device you use is still relevant.

So it leaves me feeling that people who spend $3500 on a Vision Pro will have a very expensive paperweight within four years. A paperweight whose pretensions to 'Pro' work will never really reach any further than the iPad Pro. Because until Apple can refine the tech to make it more profitable and mainstream than a Mac, they will nerf the software somehow, making users need both. They did it to iPad, they'll do it Vision.