Apple’s newly unveiled mixed-reality headset — hailed by the company as an innovation as groundbreaking as the original iPhone — drew near immediate mockery online with many scoffing at its eye-popping price tag.
Dubbed the “Vision Pro,” the device will go for a whopping $3,499 a pop when it becomes available early next year, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers conference event at its California headquarters.
When the cost was announced in real time, the audience at the conference audibly groaned, footage posted to Twitter shows.
Online, people also griped about the dollar figure.
The live audience’s to Apple Vision Pro’s $3,499 Price Point 😭pic.twitter.com/OmjB3X4Seb
— Pubity News (@pubity) June 6, 2023
“The $3,499 Apple Vision Pro will allow you to see how bad you are at personal finance,” a financial meme account tweeted.
Many also dragged the short battery life of the product.
“For the low price of $3,500 and two hour battery life on Apple Vision Pro, you can watch a full 2/3 of Avatar on your next flight,” photographer Martin Moore tweeted.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/price-tag-of-apples-newly-unveiled-vision-pro-headset-draws-mockery/