Vision Pro M5 review: It’s time for Apple to make some tough choices
A state of the union from someone who actually sort of uses the thing.
It’s past time for Apple to start killing some darlings with the Vision Pro, but I truly hope it doesn’t go too far and kill the whole platform.
I sincerely thought this thing was already dead and buried.
Haven't heard a peep from Apple about it in months.
I've seen reviews of it and it seemslike a gimmick. Something you take out at parties to show others or put on your shelf as a souvenir for bad purchases, but nothing more.
Are there people actually using them? Even for gaming?
Can't believe they actually made another one of these things after the first one flopped so badly. And they changed nothing but the chip?
Make a display that plugs into your already-wildly-expensive MacBook and you might sell a few...
Just to be fair, the MacBook pros are actually a tremendously good value if you actually need their power. I’d kill for a full Linux machine running on comparable hardware to their M5 processors.
That said, it just reinforces that if they made a screen you needed to be plugged into your MacBook for (and for low power on the go, like watching a movie on a plane, you could have a small battery pack that lasts for a few hours and use your phone for the content), it would be an absolute thoroughbred for sales. You could offer it for 500-1000 dollars and folks buying 2 and 3 thousand dollar MacBook pros, or 1200 plus dollar phones, would tack that on like they do Apple Watches and AirPods. That should be their goal.
Their mistake was trying to make a standalone product. They should’ve made a companion piece that was more affordable.