While Vision Pro returns were uncommon, many came down to owners not figuring out its spatial computing.

Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don’t Get It, Analyst Says::While Vision Pro returns were uncommon, many came down to owners not figuring out its spatial computing.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    373·
    9 months ago

    I knew a lot of people who returned the first iPhone because they “didn’t get it”. Sometimes new tech takes a while to catch on.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      This article has a really weird way of presenting the statistic. Wouldn’t it be equally right to say that most people even those who choose to ultimately return the device found it intuitive?

      Doesn’t the data kind of say the opposite of the title?

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      The first iPhone was slick but sucked as a smartphone. Heck, it couldn’t even send MMS, copy-paste, gps and the camera can’t even record a video! People looking to replace their Symbian or Windows Mobile smartphones would of course be disappointed by the lack of apps and customizations.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        I know. I had it. Biggest thing about the iPhone. Is that what it did and how it worked was very very new and novel. And it looked very very cool. Apple was able to sell it for about three years simply as a fashion accessory, not that it was especially amazing in its features. It wasn’t until the 3GS, or even the iPhone 4 until it was exactly what it had promised to be 

    • realharo@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      To be fair, the first iPhone did kinda suck in many ways, especially shortly after launch. Only the 2nd or 3rd generation had most of the basics in place.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        It’s not that this isn’t, it’s just that most people don’t know why it’s a good idea or how. The execution, here was the problem, not the idea itself. Especially the awful price tag.

        • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I just don’t see it taking over the world in such quick fashion as the phone. Like VR I think it will remain a niche

          • Leeker@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Like VR I think it will remain a niche

            Which is why I think Apple is really trying to make this an AR/VR type device. I think that AR will gain much more popularity out of the two.

          • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            It’s also not as hip and sexy as the iPhone was at the time. People didn’t care how well the iPhone worked at first. They just had to have one because it was the coolest thing on earth at the time.

            My iPhone legit got me laid a few times in the first few months I own it. It got me the phone number of Del Marquis, the guitarist from the Scissor Sisters at a party in November 2007. I’m not fucking kidding. I would like to think it was because I was that smoking hot back then, but no, he was more interested in my brand new iPhone. (I was very hot back then, but my iPhone was hotter.)

            • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              Exactly. Well… not exactly as that particular story was very particular indeed.

              But it was what I meant. I don’t think the goggles will have the same effect, even you in your prime tauting them.

                • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  I know that story sounds fantastical and difficult to believe,

                  Well I didn’t really doubt it, as it’s way too specific to have been made up and it’s fun to imagine, but with goggles on, lol. Thnx for sharing!