the iPhone wasn't mainstream because it was $500 with a two-year contract, but there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that could touch it from day one. Even before day one. Watch the demo. Moscone Center was LIT UP that day.
I used so many "iPhone killers" because I was broke back then and didn't have a choice. All of them "could" do more features-wise, but all of them were hella jank by comparison and looked significantly worse. If I had the money for an iPhone back then on launch day, I would've gotten one for sure.
It's not even just the iPhone.
When the AirPods came out, I had been wanting truly wireless earbuds for many, many years. I even spent $600 on a pair of custom Bragi Dash Pros, which were CRAZY ADVANCED for their time but had extremely poor QC. The AirPods absolutely destroyed the "competition" when they came out, and the AirPods Pro set the standard for ANC-capabale truly wireless earbuds. Nothing _still_ comes close to these devices.
Same with the Apple Watch. I had been a Pebble loyalist prior to this coming out but still got two a few weeks after release (one for my wife). The Apple Watch was crazy limited and apps were a joke, but the value was immediate. No watch still comes close, IMO.
This...is nothing like that. I could buy one, but I'm also a guy that doesn't watch movies and works off of a single monitor. There's nothing irresistible about the AVP yet like there was for the iPhone, or the AirPods, or the Apple Watch.
I guess people who already use headsets might feel the wow-factor of using these, but this is the first major Apple product in recent memory that feels like a solution looking for a problem...unless this is a stepping stone for regular glasses. The Vision Pro's AR capabilities in a regular glasses form factor a la Google Glass would be earth-shattering.
the iPhone wasn't mainstream because it was $500 with a two-year contract, but there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that could touch it from day one. Even before day one. Watch the demo. Moscone Center was LIT UP that day.
I used so many "iPhone killers" because I was broke back then and didn't have a choice. All of them "could" do more features-wise, but all of them were hella jank by comparison and looked significantly worse. If I had the money for an iPhone back then on launch day, I would've gotten one for sure.
It's not even just the iPhone. When the AirPods came out, I had been wanting truly wireless earbuds for many, many years. I even spent $600 on a pair of custom Bragi Dash Pros, which were CRAZY ADVANCED for their time but had extremely poor QC. The AirPods absolutely destroyed the "competition" when they came out, and the AirPods Pro set the standard for ANC-capabale truly wireless earbuds. Nothing _still_ comes close to these devices.
Same with the Apple Watch. I had been a Pebble loyalist prior to this coming out but still got two a few weeks after release (one for my wife). The Apple Watch was crazy limited and apps were a joke, but the value was immediate. No watch still comes close, IMO.
This...is nothing like that. I could buy one, but I'm also a guy that doesn't watch movies and works off of a single monitor. There's nothing irresistible about the AVP yet like there was for the iPhone, or the AirPods, or the Apple Watch.
I guess people who already use headsets might feel the wow-factor of using these, but this is the first major Apple product in recent memory that feels like a solution looking for a problem...unless this is a stepping stone for regular glasses. The Vision Pro's AR capabilities in a regular glasses form factor a la Google Glass would be earth-shattering.