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A lot of people in the comments here complaining about the price, but honestly it makes a ton of sense to me. Apple isn't positioning this as a peripheral or se
by lukev 3y ago
A lot of people in the comments here complaining about the price, but honestly it makes a ton of sense to me. Apple isn't positioning this as a peripheral or secondary computing device.
They are staking the claim (via price and otherwise) that this is a whole computer that you should use for Very Serious Productivity. Whereas the iPad (for example) was always kind of assumed to be a secondary/casual computing device, this is very much not. The price, the "Pro" moniker, and fact that it has specs more in line with Apple's line of laptops than its iOS devices all support this framing.
There are clearly people who will happily drop $4k on an Apple laptop if they think it'll be a good tool. That is who this is being marketed to, not people who might otherwise have bought a Oculus or whatever.
Whether the device lives up to the marketing is a different question and one we really can't answer until we spend some time with it. I'll let you know when mine arrives. So very much depends on the "feel" of the finger sensors and eye tracking.
But I do think it's priced correctly for what they're claiming it is.
- rchaud 3y agoNah, I don't see that. Apple delivers the same spiel about the iPad Pro and its AR-capable cameras. Not one person uses the iPad Pro for that, they just want the bigger screen.
- dpkonofa 3y agoI am a person who uses the AR-capable cameras on an iPad Pro. You are wrong.
- dagmx 3y agoIsn’t this a bit of a narcissistic take? Tons of creatives use it. It’s a mainstay in a lot of media and entertainment use cases, from on set work to visualization etc just as an example of things I’ve worked on.
- dpkonofa 3y agoI mostly agree. I think it's a bit much for a first-get device that hasn't proved itself out yet but I have enough experience with first-gen Apple products that I know this will easily lead to being a jumping off point for me to make a decent amount using this as a tool. If it breaks even for me, it'll be worth it for the head start I'll have over others who will just be getting into the ecosystem with later, cheaper versions.
- dcchambers 3y agoIf the only way to install software is via a regulated app store, it's not a general purpose computing device for serious computing.
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- GavinMcG 3y agoThe commment said serious productivity, though. Many people don’t need general purpose serious computation in order to be seriously productive—they need certain tools and a certain environment.