Predictions on Apple stuff are... well, I wouldn't put much stock in predictions around how people will respond.
iPad is just a big phone, iPhone doesn't have a keyboard, Airpods look silly, removing headphone socket is a mistake (i agree but didnt stop them selling), etc.
Personally, if I had the money, I would buy a Vision Pro day one. Sadly, it's about $3000 out of my price range :( Would I wear it in public? Probably not, but then I have no idea what sort of applications people will create for it, so who knows!
If someone creates something like Pokemon Go using the Vision Pro, I could see it suddenly being everywhere. Although I worry that theft will be easy and they're so expensive that not enough people will have them anyway.
> Although I worry that theft will be easy and they're so expensive that not enough people will have them anyway.
Isn't iDevice theft really low because of the Find My lockdown on devices? I.e. if a device has Find My installed if a device is stolen it can effectively be bricked because it's tied to someone else's Apple ID? I thought this entire thing made theft of Apple devices a mostly non-issue.
I'm sure a bunch of them were iPhones, so it still happens. I guess even if you just sell them for parts there's a lot of value in an iPhone and presumably that will be true for the Vision Pro too.
I think it goes beyond that. Like, if you have Find My turned on, then you can't really sign into your own Apple ID on a device with Find My turned on. I think it's called Activation Lock. Basically, you can only sign back into that device with the same Apple ID.
This is why trade in services (including Apple's) require you to turn off Find My. I think you even have to turn it off to send your device in for repair.
iPad is just a big phone, iPhone doesn't have a keyboard, Airpods look silly, removing headphone socket is a mistake (i agree but didnt stop them selling), etc.
Personally, if I had the money, I would buy a Vision Pro day one. Sadly, it's about $3000 out of my price range :( Would I wear it in public? Probably not, but then I have no idea what sort of applications people will create for it, so who knows!
If someone creates something like Pokemon Go using the Vision Pro, I could see it suddenly being everywhere. Although I worry that theft will be easy and they're so expensive that not enough people will have them anyway.