Adam Kos iPhones are the best-selling smartphone models, iPads are the best-selling tablets, and the Apple Watch is the best-selling watch worldwide. Apple is incredibly successful with certain products, but has significant problems with many new ones.
If we look at history, in all cases of successful Apple products there were already certain variants of them. This applied to smartphones, tablets and smart watches. But in all cases, Apple came up with an original and his own vision that aroused such success among his customers. In all three of these cases, Apple redefined the market.
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Price has always mattered and will matter
But if we look at the HomePod, we already had smart speakers here before it, and quite capable speakers at that. Both Amazon and Google offered them, and HomePod didn't actually come with anything different or new compared to them. Its only advantage was full integration into the Apple ecosystem and the presence of Siri. But Apple killed this product by itself, with its high price. There was actually no killer function here.
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Later, the HomePod mini came to the market, which has already become really successful. Several factors could be responsible for this, the most important of which is of course the significantly lower price (regardless of the fact that it is small and plays really well). So the classic HomePod died and Apple replaced it only with the passage of time with its second generation, which is also far from the success of the mini version. It is from this that we can easily deduce the success and failure of the Apple Vision Pro.
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There would be a slight parallel here
We have many headsets on the market, and Apple certainly did not establish a segment with its product. Although the visionOS interface looks nice, many would argue that it is not revolutionary either. That revolution can take place mainly in the control, when you don't need any controllers for it and you can do with gestures. Like the first HomePod, the Apple Vision Pro also has technical limitations and is above all unnecessarily expensive.
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So it looks like Apple didn't learn from the HomePod and followed in the same footsteps. First, introduce the "big" version for the appropriate WOW effect, and then relax. We have many rumors that a lightweight model is on the way, which could come in 2026. We can really expect sales success from it, even if it will also be technologically cut down, the main role will be played by the lower price, which customers will surely hear.
