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Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets::Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers. Apple began...

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[–] jerrythegenius 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is that supposed to be a lot? I can't tell.

[–] phoneymouse 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Almost $700,000,000 in revenue if you multiply the price by the amount sold.

[–] jerrythegenius 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Aight

that's a fair bit

[–] abhibeckert 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Keep in mind they probably spent more than that amount of money on R&D / aqua-hiring.

It's a lot of money, but still not enough to be a commercially successful product for at least a few more years.

[–] jerrythegenius 4 points 10 months ago

Fair point

[–] Tangent5280 -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Over 700 million? I find that dubious. 700 million is a lot of money isnt it? Thats what I'd expect a tank or a jet to cost in R&D.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

R&D for a jet or tank is significantly more. To not throw out nonsense some quick googling told me the R&D just for an upgrade of the Abrams tank (which is old) is $650m and the total R&D of the F22 jet over two decades was $32B....

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, nice to know somebody lives in such a peaceful part of the planet to not be interested in cost of creating a tank or a jet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What a strange response ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I meant that the person you were answering to is happy to never have been interested in those things.

Say, there are countries where people are genuinely interested in whether their government is able to create some kind of a MIC and a functioning military as a deterrent in following years with the budget they have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Gotcha. Yeah... Since they said "expect" I wasn't really judging that perception, I mean I too would like to "expect" R&D on tanks and jets to be under a billion dollars so that the USA didn't have to spend $900B/yr on "defense"

[–] Thekingoflorda 17 points 10 months ago

And you should keep in mind that these things are only sold in the USA at this point

[–] NOT_RICK 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’d say that’s certainly enough to attract developers given it’s barely out.