Setting up the infrastructure for the prescription lenses (which are regulated differently in every country) and in-store demos is probably a massive job
Checking their Terms of Service it starts with "Our place of business is Hong Kong, i.e., Hong Kong jurisdiction applies", which means they can just completely ignore any EU law about optometry, a luxury Apple doesn't have
Digital Markets Act. Apple are having to hold their nose and allow alternative apps stores in the EU. AVP is their new pasture for walled-garden entertainment, so it would be risky to introduce that, especially at a time when their own app store has so little content for it.
I probably would, as I would have bought a Quest or one of the others if that didn't tie me to one little company driven universe with their own rules.
I would want to see references for that “market consensus of 700–800k units or more”. This blogger doesn’t seem to have mentioned that before.
Same person, two months ago (https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/vision-pro更新-美國市場需求已大幅放緩-全球發佈...): U.S. shipments are expected to be 200,000–250,000 units this year, better than Apple’s original estimate of 150,000–200,000 units
And three months go (https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/vision-pro首週末預購檢視-符合預期但隱憂浮現-v...): Achieving a shipment volume of 500,000 units for Vision Pro this year should not be challenging
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