> I find it so odd that Apple put so much weight behind the VisionOS design, rolling it out to all platforms, considering so few people have Vision Pro.

I suspect they began working on Liquid Glass before the Vision Pro was publicly unveiled, so they didn't know what the public response would be.

What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well. It just isn't a good product.

Perhaps they're still banking on a future where the Vision Pro becomes a pair of real glasses. In which case, Liquid Glass is the type of interface you'd want to have.

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bee_rider a day ago | parent | next [-]

I thought I saw various comments to the effect that the Vision Pro is just a developer thing to bootstrap the app ecosystem, a prelude to a real consumer product. But if that is the case I’m slightly confused as to why they aren’t sharing more of their roadmap…

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1over137 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Since when does Apple share their roadmap of anything? They have been super-secretive for decades.

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Wowfunhappy 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, if this was the strategy, it has clearly failed, right? The Vision Pro doesn't have anything approaching a thriving app ecosystem.

And if this was the strategy, I'd have expected to see that consumer product by now. It has been almost two years.

	▲	bee_rider 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		100% agree.

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palata 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well.

Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do. Everybody was running after VR/AR headsets, now everybody is running after AI.

They see the others run somewhere, they run in that direction. Just in case.

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mr_toad 14 hours ago | parent [-]

> Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do.

Monopolies so scared of the competition?

	▲	pjmlp 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, because of inventors dilemma. That is how Kodak lost digital photography, Microsoft tablets and phones even though it had them for a decade before the competition, and so on. Monopolies double down on what they know that prints money, and are averse to taking any risks.