Reviews for the Vision Pro are out!
Does it live up to the stratospheric hype? Not so much.
Oh sorry, that's from CNET's review of the first iPhone in 2007.
It's way too early to tell if this product line will succeed in the long term. Will the first gen Vision Pro be a runaway success? Of course not! But will later generations look as obvious as the iPhone does now? Who knows!
For comparison, Apple sold 1.4 million iPhones in 2007. Supposedly Apple is expecting to sell around 500k Vision Pro units this year. Given the 3x price difference (in 2024 dollars), that effectively means the first gen Vision Pro is expected to bring the same revenue as the first gen iPhone.
We all have rosy retrospection about how great and obvious the first iPhone or first iPod was, but honestly nobody had any idea if Apple's crazy bet would pay off. We all agreed it was magical tech, but it was expensive, had tons of limitations, and nobody really needed it. Sound familiar?
All I know is it’s been a long time since I had such child-like wonder for new technology.