I’ve just found an interesting article on the Apple Vision Pro.
This is quite a fair, balanced view on the device. And it compares the first year of sales to the first year of iPhone sales:
But when people look back, they never cite the iPhone’s first year of sales, which according to Statista only amounted to around 1.4 million units. Sure, that’s more than 400,000, but that was also for a significantly less expensive device and a drop in the bucket compared to the HUNDREDS of millions Apple has been selling more recently. Those figures were meaningless.
I didn’t know iPhone only sold 1.4 million in the first year, but I’m not surprised. I remember the first iPhone (a friend bought it from the States, since it wasn’t available in Romania). I was shocked when I saw the browser scroll being so fluid and I only had another similar tech experience recently (and it lead to me starting a new company).
But, transcendent experience aside, it was a bad phone. And not a global offered device to begin with. And now? I wouldn’t change my iPhone 15 Pro Max for any other phone (maybe an iPhone 15 Pro Mini, if it existed).
I’m really bullish on the mixed reality/spatial computing devices and this article just confirms my own bias, so take it with a grain of salt. But keep believing anyway.
via X/Twitter (@SkarredGhost)
