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Apple's Vision Pro Developer Labs Not Drawing Many Attendees (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 2 years ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] VisuallyHuman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I feel like Apple caters to itself, both with its business practices and with its own forays into what they call innovation.

Who are you aiming at with this product right now in this economy?

Young to Middle Aged
Middle Wage to Wealthy Customers

( Those who are starting to go into adulthood trying to learn how to make ends meet or those that are the powerful minority of this difficult economic scale we all live on)

How do you expect developers to make reasonable margins on this when the product is prohibitively expensive? Let's be honest: it's almost $4k (starting at prices are not realistic).

Any developer going into this is basically a guinea pig

Apple is notorious for cannibalizing development ideas and making their own "iSteal Version" of the app.

Is it a cool product? Maybe? Do we NEED THIS NOW?

No, NOT AT ALL.

Does it sound like a shiny new carrot for its investors and shareholders? ABSOLUTELY.

Developers are still trying to figure out what this is, and they are not making that easy or appealing at the moment.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Building stuff now is just a foothold for the mass market version. But supporting Vision Pro doesn't mean that has to be your whole app. The vast majority of the code can be shared with phone/ipad/mac apps.