Apple's $3,500 face computer just crossed a milestone nobody asked for: a pile of new apps.
Developers are shipping spatial versions of things you already do on a $200 phone, and Apple is calling it an ecosystem.
The pitch is that Vision Pro isn't a gadget, it's a platform.
In practice, it's a very expensive way to watch a movie alone in a ski mask.
Apple reportedly sold somewhere in the low hundreds of thousands of units since launch, which sounds impressive until you remember the original iPhone moved a million in 74 days.
The Vision Pro is a rounding error with a fancier box.
The new app wave includes streaming services, a few productivity tools, and the obligatory meditation app where you stare at a glowing orb until your neck gives out.
There's also spatial gaming, which is fun for about eleven minutes before you remember the headset needs a battery pack the size of a ham sandwich.
It's that almost nobody has a reason to put the thing on.
Your phone does 95 percent of this faster, cheaper, and without fogging up your glasses.
The remaining 5 percent is "watching a dinosaur walk through your living room," which is cool exactly once.
Apple keeps insisting this is the future of computing.
Developers keep building for it anyway, presumably because ignoring Apple feels career-limiting.
Meanwhile, the actual users are the same twelve guys on Reddit posting "day 400 with my Vision Pro" threads that read like hostage journals.
Here's the part the keynote won't tell you: headsets have been "the future" for a decade.
Meta poured billions into the metaverse and got a meme.
The technology improves every year, and every year people still prefer looking at a rectangle they can hold.
That doesn't mean spatial computing is dead.
It means Apple shipped a dev kit and charged retail.
The apps are arriving because the hardware needs a reason to exist, not because anyone was waiting.
If you already own one, the new apps are a nice excuse to justify the purchase to your spouse.
If you don't, nothing here changes the math.
Wait for the cheaper version, or wait for the whole category to figure out what it's for. **The Verdict** Buying a Vision Pro for the apps is like buying a boat for the cupholders.
Final Thoughts
The question is whether you'll actually strap it to your face on a Tuesday, and for most people the answer is a hard no.