Grabbing the future and building it
Apple seems to know it’s a beginning, too. The company has been tweaking the operating system regularly with updates (major or minor) every couple of months and a raft of entertainment and enterprise software that continues to appear at a steady clip.
At its price, Vision Pro was never intended to be a mass market product akin to the iPhone, but a highly experimental solution to help determine the future of this part of the industry. Apple’s outgoing CEO, Tim Cook, has consistently described the product as “tomorrow’s engineering, today,” and it remains that.
The lessons Apple has learned will now be deployed in successor products, including smart eyeglasses to compete with Meta’s offerings. For the most part, these solutions will likely be connected accessories that use the chip inside your iPhone, iPad, or Mac for their advanced functions. But as processor designs continue to shrink, it’s only a matter of time before standalone devices appear.
