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Insight
Apple Vision Pro hauled future technology into the present at extreme cost
“That's what Apple Vision Pro is. It was never intended to be a product of the times. It's a product of the future hauled into the present by spending enormous amounts of money.”
Palmer Luckey Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 21:27 Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank
Opinion
Lessin: Vision Pro Is the Most Expensive Product Per Minute Used
“Apple Vision Pro has got to be the most expensive product per minute of use in the history of the world.”
Sam Lessin Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 15:02 Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hays: Developers have stopped building apps for Apple Vision Pro
“I know a lot of developers that were super excited to capitalize on the release of Vision Pro. They had all this energy and excitement around getting access to the product, starting to build applications for it. And I don't know that any of them are still buil…”
Jordi Hays Aug 23, 2025 ▶ 23:16 Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
Opinion
Coogan: Bullish on Meta releasing a Vision Pro competitor with movie support
“Super bullish for Meta because they're clearly going to release like something that's equivalent. They just need to figure out the media. Like you should be able to just buy any movie on any Meta headset. And I don't know that they have a partnership yet, but …”
John Coogan Dec 31, 2024 ▶ 18:38 Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
Prediction Held up
Hays: Next Apple Vision Pro will mostly just get faster chip
“The next version coming as soon as this year will mostly just get a faster chip.”
Jordi Hays Aug 23, 2025 ▶ 22:50 Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
Opinion
Andreessen: Tim Cook Shipping Vision Pro Shows Positive Drive to Innovate
“One of the, you know, things you could say about, you know, Tim is his, you know, his willingness to kind of break the mold of Apple only shifts perfect products, but, you know, be willing, be being willing to ship the You know, the vision pro you know, it sho…”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 16:10 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
Opinion
Neistat: Apple Vision Pro does not work well on airplanes
“Which, by the way, it doesn't work for me on an airplane. Like, I didn't like it at all on an airplane.”
Casey Neistat Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 25:17 CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Apple Vision Pro Resale Value Plunges by 50% on eBay
“You can buy an Apple Vision Pro for four K and go on eBay and sell it for two K the next day. Like, The depreciation is insane on the, on this product”
John Coogan Jan 16, 2025 ▶ 39:41 The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bosworth: James Cameron disliked headsets until Quest 3 and Vision Pro
“He really was not a fan of headsets until Quest three. And it finally got high res enough and AVP and all these different things. And then he was like, oh, I mean, he went from like, not that interested to all the way in.”
Andrew Bosworth (Boz) Sep 20, 2025 ▶ 4:32 Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5
Insight
Coogan: Smart eyewear progress relies on Apple Vision Pro screen commoditization
“A lot of this is just like waiting around for the screen in the Apple vision pro to commoditize to the point where where other companies can start taking that same screen and putting it in other stuff, giving like actually doing all the testing and then Apple …”
John Coogan Aug 23, 2025 ▶ 28:02 Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
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