Apple Might Be Having Its Windows Vista Moment, Says Analyst

It was interesting as VR has been fighting that fight and losing forever. But this wasn’t VR… and then it seemed to have even less reason to exist.

No, they were selling the opportunity to try out your future prison cell.

I would have absolutely loved the Apple Vision Pro hardware if I had had enough access to the actual hardware to use it how I see fit. But Apple was not even willing to grant the minimum of hardware access needed to stream SteamVR games onto the device. Every cheap chinese VR headset grants you that level of access ... but the mighty Apple refused. And that's why the thing was basically dead on arrival. It was super expensive hardware with incomplete software and NO !!! possibility for the open source community to alleviate the glaringly obvious software issues. Plus, why would any developer invest into an ecosystem where you already know the mafia is ruling and taking a 30% cut on your entire revenue? Why not invest somewhere else and pocket 30% in additional profits?

For me early on in the Vista experience it was a lot of cheese moving with half done new UI, and then things not where you want to find them. Also what seemed like a lot of unexpected system prompts related to permissions / security that didn't explain why you were seeing it...

It worked, but felt like I was boxing my computer at times.