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I don't understand why grossly misinformed comments like this always make it to the top in these threads. Yes, the headset exists and it works. People wore it after the keynote and wrote about the experience.
“Exists and works” is not Apple’s normal bar for a product launch. They routinely ship 100M units in a sales cycle.
> They had AT&T, the iPhone’s wireless carrier, bring in a portable cell tower, so they knew reception would be strong. > > Then, with Jobs’s approval, they preprogrammed the phone’s display to always show five bars of signal strength regardless of its true strength. > The chances of the radio’s crashing during the few minutes that Jobs would use it to make a call were small, but the chances of its crashing at some point during the 90-minute presentation were high. [1]
This mobile data hackn was among many other problems with the product at the announcement of iPhone.
iPhone sold ~1.4 million units in the first year. But arguably, the Vision Pro is easily 10x more complex of a product than iPhone was. It is also a much bigger leap in human computer interaction than a touchscreen.
I think these sales projection numbers seem reasonable for what the tech is, and if anything the system’s stability at demo was way further along than iPhone.