[pcurve]

"expensive novelty bullshit for rich people."

Yes.

Then it will will turn into moderately priced novelty bullshit for normal people in a few years.

At lower price, I'll be buying it just for the immersive FaceTime and Photos browsing experience.

This will be the new fancy iPad and Apple will make a lot of money off of it.

[darod]

Immersive FaceTime? How is this going to work well? The person you're talking to will be using their phone/tablet and where is your camera? If you use the continuity camera feature with an iphone, you're going to see their entire face without the headset and they're looking at someone with these goggles on. Not a good user experience IMO.

[status200]

You scan your face with the headset and the other person sees an avatar that is a scan of your face. Kinda defeats the purpose of "Face"time but I have not used it yet but with the speed of development I could see it improving to the point that the distinction between the avatar and your real face will be hard to tell apart.

[bluescrn]

When did Apple pricing ever trend downwards over time?

[danpalmer]

The iPod, the iPhone, the Mac...

All started with a high priced offering and introduced lower priced options over time, at least accounting for inflation.

Individual Apple product lines trend upwards, seemingly faster than inflation although I'm not actually sure that's the case. However they regularly introduce cheaper product lines to open up to new markets.

[fomine3]

iPad, iPod, iPhone, etc were affordable for average joe without much hassle if they want to buy. It's not the Vision Pro case.

I think only Macintosh is the case but it's too old days. It was quite expensive but price declined. Newton is another case for expensive but it was dead end.

[electroly]

They do it by introducing lower-cost models rather than lowering the price of their flagship models. e.g. iPhone SE, Macbook Air, iPad. Right out of the gate they've signaled that they're going to do this by calling this the "Vision Pro"--expect a non-Pro later.

[bamfly]

There were some Apple events in the '10s that featured significant price cuts, often alongside an improved product. Better iPad, $100 cheaper, better MacBook, $200 cheaper, that kind of thing.

[cycrutchfield]

When they added different price tiers for “Pro” vs regular