Apple's Vision Pro Developer Labs Not Drawing Many Attendees

3 years ago by thehatfox to c/apple_enthusiast

Apple in July began inviting developers to Vision Pro-focused developer labs in cities that include Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore,...

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VisuallyHuman 12 points 3 years ago

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.

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conciselyverbose 9 points 3 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.

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thehatfox 4 points 3 years ago

The problem is that getting developers to invest in the platform now is critical to make the mass market version viable. Nobody is going to rush to buy even a cheaper headset if all they can run is floating iPad apps.

Potential customers need to be sold on viable use cases for the headset, and those won't appear without a lot of developer support.

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