Apple Vision Pro or $4K?
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> 2. way too expensive for an impusle purchase (you could buy 7 meta 3's)
> 3. poor battery life
for me, point 1 just kills it. the simple reason i would never buy it.
also having a proprietary battery connector & 1 monitor limit is a very typical apple move.
i see it as just another (if albeit cool) vehicle for selling apps and streaming subscriptions. neither of which i'm interested in.
As for #2, this wasn’t an impulse purchase. I had planned to buy it before it was even announced at WWDC and I saved the money leading up to it going on sale. I had 6+ months of making sure I wanted to buy it preceded by almost a year of knowing I’d want to try whatever Apple did in this space.
#3 has been almost completely a non-issue for me. I have only seen the low power notification twice. Once when I thought I was plugged into a bigger changer (it was like a 10-20w charger) and once when I was cooking and had been unplugged for about an hour prior to starting cooking because I just forgot to plug it in while I was sitting down.
My RSS reader of choice is NetNewsWire, which is foss. The developer posted about why it’s not on the AVP[1], not even the iPad version. It basically came down to him not being able to test the actual hardware, since he isn’t going to drop $3,500 on it. If it becomes popular, and future versions are cheaper, this could change… just as it did for iPhone and iPad.
[1] https://inessential.com/2024/02/04/why_netnewswire_isnt_avai...