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I think the cracks will start to show the longer big apps don’t come to Vision Pro. Apple has spent the last decade pissing off developers and partners, and just when they need them the most - during the fragile time of getting an entire new platform off the ground - they are doubling down on being assholes.

Every single review I’ve seen mentions that Netflix and YouTube aren’t on Vision Pro. One of the biggest applications of VR is gaming and they’re going nuclear with Epic instead of developing a great partnership to bring high value gaming to Vision Pro. Hubris before the fall.

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Apple themselves seem to forget that a huge selling point for the iPhone/iPod Touch was video games. Seeing those bright flashy games rendering on such a beautiful screen in the palm of your hand- it blew everything else out of the water.

Social media eventually took over as the killer apps, but for a while it was Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja on everyone's phone.

Exactly - and many of the Vision Pro reviews talk about Fruit Ninja being great!

> Social media eventually took over as the killer apps, but for a while it was Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja on everyone's phone.

... not to mention the countless fart sound players, virtual beer glasses and other such low-quality stuff.

People put their kids through college with those apps! It was a lottery, funny time.

Epic's Infinity Blade got me to buy an iPod touch when I was in middle school

From it's issues I bet you it's infighting from a group trying to kill the vision pro from apple.

The fact that they went to market with a $3.5k price tag tells me they just aren’t serious about wide adoption, period.

The original Mac cost about $7k in current dollars.

I remember thinking the original iPhone was hugely overpriced, too.

Valid point, but this is the first new product from them where I haven’t seen a lot of sustained excitement.

Huge technical leap, but to where? I don’t think Apple has figured that part out.

We’ll see what Gen 2 brings, but if they don’t have a lot more content and apps at launch it’s going to be a hard sell at any price

The reality is it's a dev demo unit but pride doesn't allow them to say it.

It's over speced with hardware as it won't be mass sold for a few more years at which point the price for the components will have naturally dropped allowing selling it for a more "reasonable" price. This is apple so it still won't be cheap.

It's made with metal to get the brand of being the "best" build, but watch them drop it on future units (while folks still keep thinking of it as best in build)

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