I got the Apple Vision Pro. It’s awesome, but to be honest, it doesn’t do much, yet. It’s amazing hardware and software, but there are few built-in apps. It’ll grow and expand, but there’s just not a lot you can do with it yet.
There are two built-in experiences to sell you on how much potential it has to sell you on how incredible this thing can / will be. They both involve dinosaurs.
In one, a large dino comes into the room. It’s very impressive. In the other, you’re fully immersed in a scene of dinos and you can look around at all the scenery surrounding you. And this got me thinking…
What if I was a Young Earth Creationist who bought this? You know, those dummies who take the bible literally and think the earth is 5-6000 years old. The ones who think either fossils are a test of your faith by god or dinos roamed the earth with humans. How would these make such a person feel?
Personally, my first dream job, as a child, was to be an archaeologist, digging up dinos, so I loved both experiences. But if I thought this was all a lie from Satan, how let down might I feel when those are the best parts of my new, expensive toy?
This was my first thought when I awoke this morning. I’m typing it right after I woke so I don’t forget, such as we forget the details of dreams. Apologies for typos. I’m not proofreading it. I’m grabbing some caffeine and getting my day going. I just wanted to capture this silly, ironic idea. Btw, the AVP is still truly awesome and I don’t regret the purchase.
If you watch some reviews, there’s nothing else like it on the consumer market. It really does look like Apple have made a generational leap forwards with this thing.
But I’m not buying it. I’ll buy one of the inevitable competitors, after a generation or three, because I also have no interest in joining the Apple ecosystem. I like having control over my devices too much for that.
Same for the reason, i dont say its not innovative combining vr and ar, but the closed ecosystem will kill it in the end.
People have said this about every Apple product. They continue to thrive.
We are in a very specific bubble here on Lemmy. And in the Lemmy bubble, yeah, Apple products will never be the most popular.
But the average consumer could not possibly care less about “closed ecosystems.” They want a device that works smoothly and looks nice.
Thrive? The only thing i see is an cash grabs from big corporations.
Maybe you missed Apple going from a nearly-defunct company in the 90s to one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market cap in the trillions and nearly a quarter of the global smartphone market share.
While that is certainly the result of cash grabbing, I think it’s also fair to describe it with the word “thrive.”