Comment by dpark

Apple sold more Vision Pros in the first year than it sold Lisas during its entire run.

> Except the iteration on it.

It’s only 2 years old and they’ve released version 2. I’m not sure the Vision Pro has enough market to keep making it, but it was a big new bet.

> And people we aghast at the cost.

Didn’t you say they should be releasing crazy expensive stuff?

> If the Vision Pro was the Lisa, where is the Vision (or Mac version)?

This isn’t really what happened with Lisa and Mac. Mac wasn’t the cheap Lisa. It was a totally different product addressing a different market and initially incompatible. The fact that Mac looked a lot like Lisa was driven by the fact that Jobs was yanked off the Lisa project by the board so he hijacked the Mac project and made it a similar looking system. This was internal politics, not a consistent strategy.

> They should have bought Lucid and poured their car tech into that.

Why? So they could be burning billions in capital on trying to break into a highly competitive, low margin market? This isn’t really Apple’s DNA.

> They should have a MacPro with four to eight MacStudio blades inside.

Again, why? What’s the market for this? This seems like a low value market segment. They don’t even make servers anymore because the market wasn’t profitable.

> Where is the $35000 equivalent of what they used to do like when they released the Lisa?

Lisa was a product of a different time. Computers cost way more in general. (The Macintosh was nearly $8k in today’s dollars.) It was also not commercially successful.