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I would no longer buy any consumer device based on Disney announcing support of it. Not after what they did to 3D TV support. As for this supporting 3D, I will look at it when it can play the 3D films I have sitting uselessly in my collection, not on a database that can be discontinued at any time. The bonus would be PC support.
APPLE is a trillion or near trillion dollar company that overcharges their customers for the privilege of owning a brand name. A few YouTube reviewers buying their products for a review and then returning them is hardly even felt on their bottom line. I seriously don't get the sympathy for transnational corporations that only see people as wallets or handbags to mine as much coin out of as.possible.Allow me to get on my soapbox for a moment about what I perceive to be a rather disturbing problem that in the end, could hurt the honest Apple consumer...
One of the reasons why Vision Pros are being returned to Apple is because there are people who bought it merely to experience the device with little confidence that they were going to purchase it.
But it gets more disturbing...
Many of the returns, according to a similar article by Digital Trends, are from YouTube vloggers who simply bought the device to do a review and boost their subscriber count, intending to return the device within the 14-day window.
About two years ago, when the AirPods Max was released, one YouTube vlogger came under fire for doing a review, on launch day, where he featured all five colors, trying each one on to show the difference, and then proclaiming that he bought them only for review purposes and was planning to go back to the store later that day to return them all.
This kind of crap goes on all the time. Had I no morals, I could have tried to create my own YouTube channel and make money by purchasing every Apple product on launch day, doing a review, and then returning it for a refund. Any of you reading this can take that idea and run with it. I don't feel comfortable doing it.
I suppose there is nothing Apple can do about it without hurting honest consumers. To take away the 14-day return policy would be a devastating move.
Maybe Apple doesn't care. The YouTube reviews only bring them exposure and hype. They can sell the returned hardware through their refurbished program, still making a significant profit at a slightly reduced cost to the consumer.
I think it's a bad practice but something tells me it has become more normalized than I realize.
Allow me to get on my soapbox for a moment about what I perceive to be a rather disturbing problem that in the end, could hurt the honest Apple consumer...
One of the reasons why Vision Pros are being returned to Apple is because there are people who bought it merely to experience the device with little confidence that they were going to purchase it.
But it gets more disturbing...
Many of the returns, according to a similar article by Digital Trends, are from YouTube vloggers who simply bought the device to do a review and boost their subscriber count, intending to return the device within the 14-day window.
About two years ago, when the AirPods Max was released, one YouTube vlogger came under fire for doing a review, on launch day, where he featured all five colors, trying each one on to show the difference, and then proclaiming that he bought them only for review purposes and was planning to go back to the store later that day to return them all.
This kind of crap goes on all the time. Had I no morals, I could have tried to create my own YouTube channel and make money by purchasing every Apple product on launch day, doing a review, and then returning it for a refund. Any of you reading this can take that idea and run with it. I don't feel comfortable doing it.
I suppose there is nothing Apple can do about it without hurting honest consumers. To take away the 14-day return policy would be a devastating move.
Maybe Apple doesn't care. The YouTube reviews only bring them exposure and hype. They can sell the returned hardware through their refurbished program, still making a significant profit at a slightly reduced cost to the consumer.
I think it's a bad practice but something tells me it has become more normalized than I realize.
I find the most useful reviews are by people who buy the device and keep it in order to provide updates to their reviews as a device matures or from people whose job it is to review products as part their employment.And, Edwin I agree that there should be no sympathy for a trillion-dollar company like Apple, I think it strikes a nerve on a moral basis if this has become the new norm for YouTube reviewers to obtain expensive products only to return them for the sake of making revenue. And, yes, you could very well say those reviews will be more honest than those from the "shills" we regularly see.
I was wondering how many of these returns were just “influencers” returning the hardware having got their early videos and tiktoks out.Many of the returns, according to a similar article by Digital Trends, are from YouTube vloggers who simply bought the device to do a review and boost their subscriber count, intending to return the device within the 14-day window.
You do realize you’re saying this to a bunch of Apple customers who spend our hard-earned money on what we have decided is a good value, and not because we’re dumbasses taken in by a logo?APPLE is a trillion or near trillion dollar company that overcharges their customers for the privilege of owning a brand name.
I just learned that if you buy Dial M for Murder from the Apple, you get the 3D version to watch on the Vision Pro. The neat thing is Hitchcock shot it for 3D but by the time it was released 3D was already on the decline so it has been rarely seen as is intended Is my understanding.
You do realize you’re saying this to a bunch of Apple customers who spend our hard-earned money on what we have decided is a good value, and not because we’re dumbasses taken in by a logo?
I mean, you know that right? Because this is actually a pretty insulting comment to me and others in this forum.