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The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Not only is it too expensive, but it doesn't have a "universal" killer app or use case. What I mean by that is something a lot of people could use it for.

There are quite a few use cases for the device, but many of them are edge cases. For example I think the Keynote (Apple's PowerPoint) virtual presentation mode is a great way to practice a presentation (you stand in a large room with the presentation behind you on a canvas and an audience in front of you), but how often are most people going to need it?

I personally loved the F1 demo one guy made with a 3D track map with the option to glimpse at onboards an whatnot. But how large of an audience would that have outside of hardcore F1 fans? Still, immersive live sports would probably be a thing, but without a large user base the broadcasters won't bother making an elaborate (and costly) stream with added features exclusive to Vision Pro.

I'm not sure if Apple can fix this by "simply" releasing a second generation model, even if it somehow came at just half the price.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can think of 100 use cases just for me. Maybe 500.More for other specialists in other industries. What I can’t do - even as a UX designer - is even imagine 100,000 use cases, which I can for… a phone or an iPod or and iPad. More even.

And Apple hasn’t engineered this device for those use cases. If they had, and marketed this device as such, we would be having a very different conversation.

But they didn’t.

And that’s a shame

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