Apple Responds to Ending Apple Vision Pro

It looks like Apple is ending production of the Apple Vision Pro due to poor sales. If only they put the headset on, they could have seen that coming.
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[@davcar23]

Apparently this channel is where I get my tech news now.

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[@Feefa99]

It is like Apple lost the Vision

[@MP-vc4nu]

The headset is turning people’s face into Mark Zuckerberg, which isn’t Apple.

[@AbassAli092]

That happened long ago.

[@Architectofawesome]

Pro

[@rocketmunkey1]

Steve Jobs would never have released a VR headset, he would have tried it and realised very quickly this wasn't a product he or anyone else would use past the novelty period of 2 weeks, owing to its numerous insurmountable flaws, ie being heavy, sweaty, face muffles which are a faff to take on and off, which downgrades reality from infinite K to 4K, and does literally nothing better than a TV laptop and a smart phone cant already do, much more conveniently, comfortably and cheaply. With the exception of its ARM chips Apple is purely a high price fashion brand these days with Jobs Ives and Forstall no longer there.

[@Feefa99]

@@rocketmunkey1 Who knows, but even him released some really unsuccessful products, but still nice speculation.

[@boejiden8859]

Did you try turning the price off then back on again?

[@Slapbattler666]

That sounds like it would unironically work

[@suipsycko]

🙏 I am praying people get the reference - greetings from Reynholm Industries basement

[@svcross-do]

Great joke sir

[@ManMpha]

Who needs MKBHD when there's Sam?

[@xandercruz900]

When you need an Uber driver that can get through town fast?

[@kapilsethia9284]

​@@xandercruz900😂😂

[@Warlord_Megatron]

@@xandercruz900 my need for Speed is greater than anything else

[@Ethan_Fel]

first part was enough

[@AzureRT456]

FOR REAL LOL

[@reza2kn]

@01:57 "After almost 10 years of Tim-ovation"😂😂

[@danielkemmet2594]

Imagine being one of the people left holding the bag on a what is now a 3500$ sleep mask

[@MP-vc4nu]

3’999 Apple Sleep Pro

[@TheRealTommyR]

Ikr?

[@petef15]

The worst part is you can't even use the thing as a PCVR headset. Utterly useless.

[@SupraSav]

@@petef15 Oh wow I didn't know that. THAT is insanity. Classic apple, burning their customer base..

[@RustOnWheels]

@@SupraSav don’t worry, only influencers bought one… from their sponsor money.

[@sigh-cosis]

Everyone but Apple saw this coming

[@demonicsquid7217]

I didn't because I had my goggles on.

[@theronwolf3296]

Had to be one of the dumbest ideas ever. Even the fanbois were not impressed.

[@RD-io6sm]

I actually didn't because I've always believed that apple consumers paid ridiculous prices for their products. I'll never forget the $700 desktop wheels. Those would be close to $900 today...

[@hasibulhasan1381]

Color change is the only innovation Apple does now.

[@fix0the0spade]

Don't forget soldering things together that should not be soldered.

[@rajK29_]

1:17 two vision jokes in a row😂😂 how did my vision miss this 😂😂😂

[@CZpersi]

It lacked any "killer feature". Basically an obnoxious and overpriced iPad. Headset for writing e-mails in a flating window? Like seriously? Who was the target audience in the first place? What added value this thing offered that would justify the price?

[@p.c.n.b.6112]

clearly you haven't seen the apple math course. 😢

[@momopirou3107]

dont underestimate how much it costs to put that apple logo on things. that's where most of the price comes from on all of their products.

[@PoisonNuke]

nobody talks about that this headset has currently the best image quality of ALL headsets on the market, on par if not better then the Varjio XR-4. So it doesnt need an killer-app it just needs to be a normal VR-headset like the Quest and thats actually possible. Furthermore the VisionPro has the best tracking of all headsets right now, so it excels at all points compared to the competition and if you are a business already using XR, then the price-tag is actuall quite inexpensive (compare it to the $14,000 of the Varjo XR-4). But of course it not for the consumer-market, thats where Apple has failed. This headset really shines with industrial usecases. Apple shouldve made it for businesses in the first place. And added controller support. And made it more ergonomic. And no battery-pack. And no 100 different head-straps. And less heavy. And better support for prescription glasses. And support for full VR from the beginning. And support CloudXR natively. ...

[@triadwarfare]

​@@PoisonNukeit costs too much for those features to be worth it, especially during a recession. This is non-essential.

[@heroninja1125]

@@PoisonNuke The problem is that you are looking at it compared to headsets that are more capable, in both high and low price points. Comparing it to a $14000 headset that is ALSO more capable in the areas that counts does nothing for it. These are the same arguments people had for the pro display XDR, a product that was at least more successful but still sucked. Compared to consumer displays, it was too expensive, compared to professional displays, it was lacking in so many different key criteria that it was worthless, even when compared to displays 7 times the price, displays that seemingly only had small on-paper advantages over it. Truly a device without a direction or purpose, to be killed off like the touch bar.

[@CharlesBluTheXPicturesInc]

Vision Pro Was Released On March 1st 2024 The Production Lasted 8 Months And Got Discontinued On November 1st 2024

[@KabeeshS]

I was expecting this to be even earlier.

[@TheRealTommyR]

youtubers will now reflect on this device for years to come in the history part of their tech videos

[@doompod]

They didn’t cancel the product, they just stopped production for this model.

[@ShaferHart]

"And because our leader has no vision--he had to build one!" damn 😂😂

[@godswillak]

Like, "even the 12 cameras couldn't solve Tim's short-sightedness" Jeez, that was harsh! 😂😂

[@kirby21-xz4rx]

That killed me 😂

[@Jayden-lr2mm]

It was pretty obvious that the Apple Vision Pro wouldn’t last because of the price and how it’s literally a portable tv on your face

[@sidd534]

Most normal thing that apple doing recently

[@MrTPF1]

Oh no! I was just getting ready to buy 27 of them for everyone on my Christmas list!

[@slopedarmor]

make it 28 and add me to ur christmas list daddy

[@MrTPF1]

@@slopedarmor LOL!!!

[@AzureRT456]

​@@slopedarmorcan you make that 29

[@WillLN]

Getting apple news from SAM is so much better. Would you please do all news for us Mr. TIME?

[@vivyrox7202]

yup agree - can't stand watching the product launches anymore..... all long winded and full of BS drivel

[@marcfuchs6938]

This whole thing was basically a concept, sold to fanboys at a price, where low sales would supposedly still drive back in development cost. From what I have seen in the many videos, this whole device is basically a fun tech gimmick - but where the fun wears off after a while, and then there is no productivity left to use it for.

[@ledocteur7701]

yeah, unlike the meta quest it doesn't have an existing gaming and apps ecosystem, so it's just using non-VR apps available on any apple devices, they blocked 3D porn on it (which lets be honest, is one of the main use cases of VR headsets at the moment), and the one thing it could be good for, industrial augment reality, it wasn't marketed for. It has a resolution barely lower than some of the crazy high-end industrial AR headsets, at a fraction of the price, but instead they marketed it as entertainment, despite having non of the functionalities of gaming VR headsets. Releasing secondary features later might be digestible by end users on a phone (the AI camera stuff on the Iphone 16), but main features being unavailable on a 3500$ VR headset ?? Even the most cock-sucking fanboys aren't gonna like that.

[@JadaKilla]

How does this man not have tour dates for comedy shows 😂

[@Cingku]

Before, people were mad at me when I said something like this would happen. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. It’s not rocket science-you just have to use your brain to think, not fanboyism.

[@Warlord_Megatron]

Honestly with the way apple currently is, I'm surprised it's not a bankrupt company. The products are flat out worse in most aspects than options available in the market, how are these guys even in business?

[@NCC-0000]

@@Warlord_Megatron Fanboyism, it is incredible how just that handles Apple

[@heroninja1125]

@@Warlord_Megatron I remember years back, you could walk into an apple store and the devices were genuinely cool to mess around with. It actually seemed like they were onto something cool and new. All you see now is different metal slabs, some with colors. All of them with huge upgrade costs for memory and storage. At least they make laptops that have good processors now though, that is one thing that has improved.

[@username7763]

I thought the iPhone was going to flop. Too expensive, one carrier only, no SDK, everything was so limited. So now I assume any time Apple releases something dumb that it will be a big hit.

[@newgaming43]

Tim to his employees , "We are selling it wrong ".

[@MP-vc4nu]

Even wearing Facebook VR doesn’t turn your face into Mark Zuckerberg, yet Apple’s VR does…. Did Mark sneak in and replaced all Apple VR department with his people? 😂

[@thisaintart]

That time money joke 🤯🤣😂😭😭😭😭

[@GameBacardi]

You can't say Time without Tim

[@paulcaskey]

People bought it for 3D pornos, which they blocked. That's like selling VCRs that didn't play dirty movies. Someone will come up with a replacement.

[@demonicsquid7217]

It was all a bit...premature.

[@Heinz76Harald]

imagine they did coop with p**nhub, these would have sold like crazy

[@joopie46614]

Companies need to stop blocking things and actually let consumers do whatever they want with the product they own

[@rodh1404]

@@joopie46614 Apple hasn't done that in decades.

[@kennydolby1379]

How am I not surprised... that price was bonkers, especially here in Eastern Europe.

[@demonicsquid7217]

It was bonkers in western, northern, and southern Europe too.

[@trevorsinnott123]

In Canada, it started at $5,000. I love Apple stuff, but no, just no.

[@mifit3303]

12 cameras + lidar sensor + a few other things, each for $200.

[@DG8RS]

So Apple had a Vision, and now it no longer has Vision. This is factual in more ways than one.

[@Kridez23]

Ripping people off has been part of apple philosophy

[@singh73030]

2:10 , not even a different colour 😂😂

[@Curt_Sampson]

Of course it's not a different colour! If you don't check the $200 option for that, you don't get that feature. Sheesh, I don't see what's so difficult about this.

[@SargonDragon]

This video is funny, but inaccurate as far as being actual news. Apple is finishing production of the Vision Pro because they're releasing the Vision Pro 2 next year which will upgrade it to the M5 processor. Finishing production of the old model because they're moving on to producing the new model is not actually news, but media is turning this into clickbait.

[@dudmanjohn]

That's a good plan 🤔

[@hakaiyou4532]

The good thing that came out of this: is thet Meta got pushed into adding better features, the some of the vison pro things.

[@geggyboy1269]

"Time and money" 🤣🤣

[@starkiller7278]

0:36 is it just me or was there a lip sync problem!?

[@Theodorepottery]

Me to

[@trancematics]

I think he cut to clip of a previous video of his whilst carrying on with the voice-over on this one. Hence the no lip-sync.

[@gameplayz5847]

I dont think it was supposed to be synced anyways

[@DasJev]

They released it without SteamVR support and without controllers, what did they expect? Their HMD didn't support the most basic things every VR HMD supports

[@ivonakis]

Yeah, the price was not THE issue. If it could do what other VR headsets could do but better, then you have a viable product.

[@ledocteur7701]

@@ivonakis If anything, they nailed it as far as hardware goes, it has graphical fidelity close to crazy high-end industrial AR headsets, at a comparatively reasonable price, but they marketed it for the wrong use cases, and then massively under-delivered functionality wise, making it into an overly expensive 3D IMac.

[@adesoladada]

TIM: T= Time I = i (Whatever Apple Product/Service) M = Money

[@BlindMansRevenge2002]

I can remember watching one of Steve Jobs interviews where in he stated that Apple would never be in the business of shipping junk. Looks like under uncle Tim’s tutelage. Apple is now shipping junk.

[@anticat867]

I don't think the Vision Pro is junk. On the other hand I've never tried it because I'm not going to pay 3k for a device that I most likely will use during the first few weeks and then never again.

[@Iisakki3000]

Yeah I've never been a huge apple fan but with steve it always felt like they were onto something (and they very much were). Tim doesn't even feel like he's taking any part in product development, he's just a ceo.

[@SCWgreg]

Spot on satire!!! Particularly about Tim. Love it.

[@diehardcynic]

amazed at how you write such quality stuff so quickly. keep it up !

[@rocketmunkey1]

The problem is although there a lot of stupid people in the world who think the future is to live in 4K head mufflers, fortunately only 1% of them can afford Apple Maths.

[@antoniodragonheart8965]

This is the best rising tech news channel 🎉

[@alhypo]

Knowing Sam Tucker never bought an AVP definitely increases my respect for him. 👏

[@JimmyCerra]

Somehow, I hear about tech news here first lol

[@nathanottrey]

This is $6000 dollars in Australia, so without tax and working full time hours with casual loading I can afford to buy this after a month!

[@erolserif5357]

you are lucky, in Balkans you would have to work 10-12 months to be able to buy this thingy

[@agrmbl]

Official spin is they have a huge inventory, enough for until mass-market version is released. They keep updating the OS though.

[@wobblymovie42]

1:35 Damn that 3rd video is wild, hasn't seen it yet but I am certainly going to watch it

[@RyuShinkuuHadoken]

I knew you were going to use the Riders of the lost ark scene a few miliseconds before it showed.

[@M4cintoshSE]

3:02 oh no it was a png again 😂

[@HackionSTx]

I really didn't SEE this coming.

[@LateralTwitlerLT]

Probably because you lack VISION

[@Illeea]

vr/ar needs to be better than a computer/phone in most aspects before it succeeds. its still seen as a gimmick rather than the future.

[@Billynomates-1980]

I expect the owners to develop myopia. But it was the manufacturer.

[@ledocteur7701]

Actually, the way VR lenses work make all VR headsets have a true depth of field, your eyes have to focus further or closer away depending on how far something is in the virtual environment, so if anything it's better than a regular monitor health-wise.

[@AndyBeez]

As head candy goes, they're not Beats - a company that perfected charging stupid money for 1970s sized headphones.

[@brucekennedy5274]

A friend of mine got one second hand (clue 1). I said while I had no intention of getting one, an hour mucking about on his would be cool. Then he told me about all the “guest user” faff you had to go though, and I was like “nah, I’m not that bothered” (clue 2)

[@Windhox_cz]

Last time I was this early Apple Vision Pro was still a thing.

[@mattb9664]

Since Occulus had been around since 2015/2016, I finally bought into Quest 3 last Christmas, expecting there to be tons of useful apps and education/STEM purposes for my daughter...but I should have done some more research. It's still just a glorified method of playing games only slightly better than cell-phone mobile game quality. That said, I can tell that Meta is subsidizing the cost of the device, so you are getting quite a bit of hardware at cost. I imagine the Vision Pro is just a M2 processor based laptop that pulls off seamless AR integration with the Apple ecosystem...and not much else for the moment. And some games. And you the customer are funding it rather than Apple.

[@jacklawsen6390]

This is honestly one of the most encouraging things I've heard in quite a while. Apparently people aren't ready to become full tech zombies right now.

[@comrade_rahul_1]

It's a great product but it's still the first generation. So it is on the higher side of the price. It is for early adopters. Not everyone can pull off first gen products like Steve Jobs with iPhone, iPod, iPad. That's why he's a legend. This doesn't mean AVP is a bad product.

[@ZoneProduction448]

All those people who bought it thought I was investing in the future. Well, it’s the past now!!!

[@thereluctanthipster6075]

It'll now be a coin flip whether they'll be instantly worthless or price gouged to the stratosphere.

[@blocSonic]

It's amazing to me that Apple is trying to ram VR down our throats with a ridiculously priced product that most people refuse to spend on something that has little real world use, when they can in fact simply just release a hybrid device and take my money and everyone else’s who has been asking for a hybrid device since the iPad was first released. Why is it that Windows gets it and Mac refuses to get it??

[@NathanielJoshua-zg4ee]

oh no we lost something that no one wanted..surely no one would miss it

[@harveylimpopo3042]

I think a lot of us DO want it, but not at the fucking stupid price. Try a10th of the price and it'll take off

[@kapilsethia9284]

​@@harveylimpopo3042 give it free even I will try it.

[@Compact-Disc_700mb]

@@harveylimpopo3042 But why do you want it, what purpose does it serve.

[@NaudVanDalen]

0:29 When you forget to turn on passthrough.

[@Faciek]

You forgot Airpods are also a huge success

[@4.0GPA]

This channel is gold. Loved you Sam!

[@ChristianWagner888]

What do we do now with our 30 Vision Pro for our virtual classroom? After spending $3500 per device we expected to have them supported for way more than 350 days. Oh well, we will just add them to our collection of 300 Apple Newtons.

[@samanjj]

They will be - it is not cancelled - new version coming next year. They stopped production only

[@thejackimonster9689]

Price is too high, battery life too low, device weights too much, it is not comfortable to wear and there is no software around to use it... Yeah, why did it fail? How could that happen?

[@Nylgk]

Misleading. New model still due out. Glass Almanac: Apple’s foray into mixed reality is set to continue, with reports suggesting that the second-generation Vision Pro headset could arrive between fall 2025 and spring 2026. After a lukewarm reception for the original Vision Pro, Apple is preparing to refine its offering while maintaining its ambitious vision for the future of augmented and virtual reality.

[@AndrewCortesi]

Had no idea until I saw this video

[@uktruecrime]

I bought two and wore them at the same time for extra power, I am dissapointed at this news because I am mad and all that that entails.

[@blueguy12345]

Slapping the Apple logo on shit doesn'T even convince the cultists anymore.

[@Alucard_Seven]

Damn that was quick.

[@SupraSav]

There's a reason the iphone 3GS was my first and last iphone product.

[@poch195]

The only tech channel I watch now.😂

[@MOISTxPANDAx]

It’s kind of weird that they’re allowed to legally do this for some reason

[@TwoTubesADV]

Arnt they working on a vision pro 2 ?

[@thelbtlover]

Knowing Apple the thing probably only costs them $500 to make but instead of lowering the price to a reasonable amount say $1000, they'd rather kill the headset completely. I'm sure they'll release a new version of it for $2500 that only costs them $200 to make and everyone will praise them and say that they invented the VR Headset.

[@SpottedHares]

Wasn’t their a report that a bunch of teck reviewers only kept their Vision Pro long enough to make the review then returned it?

[@stevenaaus]

From that old footage - obvious Tim was always an evil shareholder plant, ready to plant the knife, step in and milk the company for every cent it was worth. :P

[@diogopaiva85]

Yep, this is how I get tech updates now…

[@Billy_Rizzle]

Who wants to wear that uncomfortable and goofy AF thing on their face? Not to mention the short battery life and the awkward cable to the battery/processor. If Apple's share price wasn't so high, Tim Cook's leadership would actually be brought into question over this failure.

[@lolerin34]

At 2:40 what are the "competitors" Vr set? I can't recognice them

[@Ste4lth7722]

Meta quest 3s

[@jonathaningram8157]

It was obviously gonna fail at that price but I thought apple was planning to launch a more affordable version that would be compatible and that the vision pro would just be some kind of early tech preview and to give devs time to make their apps for it

[@EricTetz]

It wasn't cost. It was weight. Oculus could have told them that 5 years ago.

[@youtbe999]

Now the Apple Vision Pro is a collectible. Genius move, Apple!

[@UlshaRS]

Blinded by the light(ning cable surcharge)

[@LateralTwitlerLT]

Could've been worse. They could've been a pair of JPGs

I feel kinda sad this has been discontinued… I rather love the Apple Vision Pro has a product… why they didn’t just lowered the price?

[@Krishabh_Agrawal]

It is not expensive. They are keeping huge margins. They can lower the price by 70% but they will not do that

[@kirby21-xz4rx]

Hence why he said apple won't give discounts 😂

[@miroslavzima8856]

Yup, and this should happen to all of those greedy corporations no matter which focus they have (games, technology, etc.)

[@heymanispog5272]

They pulled a Google on us

[@ballooneyjr4294]

I really thought they were going to keep going with the tech and bring it down to glasses eventually

[@mirroredchaos]

the only think this headset has going for it is the resolution which even surpasses pimax. sadly its lacking in literally every single other thing, you get more use out of a decorative glass cube because that's all it really is.

[@Xxxzzzyyy1]

Only the people who can not afford such a product will have something to complain about. Personality im thinking is an amazing piece of technology way ahead of competition!! I totally love it ,and I don't regret paying 3.5k at all .APPLE IS THE BEST

[@iluvatar003]

Well, that was fast...

[@Archaeonauts]

I'm only just now hearing that the Vison Pro was ending production. I guess I get my tech news here now.

[@sophie_katz]

1:10 tripleS visionary vision mentioned?

[@imakethesites3048]

Imagine they'd released it for $500-$1000, Apple addicts would've bought them

[@spanke2999]

Well... You couldn't order a stand for 999... 😂

[@YogisGarage]

I'll offer them 1200 bucks and they'll be happy about it. Geesh what a cash grab.

[@gwine9087]

Everyone buying an Apple product, in the future, will be paying extra to make up for the losses.

[@TV-xm4ps]

Vision Pro is the Newton of our time...