[SllX]

> Every successful Apple product to date has been indispensable from the moment it is first launched.

Counterpoint: the Apple Watch and AirPods were not indispensable from day one but became very successful product lines for Apple over time. I still wouldn’t call them indispensable (generally at least, I consider my AirPods Pro pretty damn indispensable personally though) and they still consistently bring in billions for Apple per quarter.

However I am not optimistic about Apple Vision Pro. It’s Macintosh money with an iPad’s software distribution model. The iPad could never replace the Mac with that model, and I don’t see these being any more ambitious with what is public knowledge at the moment.

[paxys]

AirPods are the opposite of what you are claiming. They were massively successful from the moment they launched, so much so that Apple has made basically no changes to them over the years and their sales haven't slowed.

[SllX]

I recall them being a slower burn that first year, still a great year but not to the degree of their other new products; but in under 3 years they were part of what I at the time called the San Francisco uniform:

1. AirPods

2. Apple Watch

3. An iPhone, if not visible was implied.

4. A messenger bag, backpack or purse.

5. Sunglasses

6. Some kind of mask to filter out the smog from the fires in 2019.