Apple Vision Pro Low-Value Model Would possibly Be Cancelled, Second Headset Will not Arrive for Few Years: Ming-Chi Kuo

Apple Vision Pro — the iPhone maker’s first wearable spatial laptop — is slated to go on sale in early 2024, however the rumoured cheaper model that was mentioned to be within the works may need been cancelled. According to particulars shared by TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, shipments of the Cupertino firm’s first blended actuality headset will stay under market expectations throughout the first yr and that the corporate won’t launch a successor to the headset for a couple of extra years.

In a new Medium submit citing most manufacturing capability of some element suppliers, Kuo claims that whereas the market expects Apple to ship 1 million items inside the first yr, he estimates that the corporate will ship “at most 400,000–600,000 units”. This is consistent with an earlier report that projected related manufacturing estimates for the wearable system.

Kuo additionally states that the rumoured low-cost model of the Apple Vision Pro headset that was mentioned to reach a yr after the debut of the primary mannequin, could have been cancelled on the firm. Back in June, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that the successor to the Apple Vision Pro was already in growth and a less expensive mannequin can be launched by the top of 2025.

The purported Apple Vision Pro 2 is unlikely to reach till the primary half of 2027, in accordance with the analyst. This implies that Apple is unlikely to introduce newer spatial computer systems — at a less expensive or dearer value level — apart from the Vision Pro for the following few years.  

Back in July, a report said that the Cupertino firm was compelled to make main cuts to its forecasts for the manufacturing of the Apple Vision Pro. At the time, it was reported that Luxshare — Apple’s contract producer primarily based in China — was working in the direction of manufacturing of “fewer than 400,000 units” of the first-generation Apple Vision Pro within the first yr.

Earlier this yr, Apple introduced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) occasion that its first spatial laptop would go on sale in early 2024. Since then, particulars of the prescription optical inserts for the headset have been revealed by Zeiss. Apple additionally launched its visionOS developer instruments that might enable app makers to develop software program for the system, forward of its debut subsequent yr.