Talk:Apple mixed reality headset

Independent notability

Reams of reliable sources have written on Apple's development of augmented/mixed/virtual reality technology, regardless of whether the product is ever officially announced. As such, the topic is covered as a development process rather than as a forthcoming product, so crystal balling should not be an issue. I see more than enough content to suit the general notability guideline but please discuss other potential merge options here as alternatives to deletion if need be. czar 17:55, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Apple Watch estimate

Explanation for this edit: our sentence focuses on what Apple planned, which is 1 mil (per FT), while the 500k is an analyst estimate.

40 mil was an upper-bound estimate before the Apple Watch's release; analyst range was 8 mil–41 mil. not sure why NYT picked 40 mil. I chose 19 mil, which is a retrospective estimate by Counterpoint Research of Apple Watch "Series 0" unit sales, and seems more relevant than pre-release estimates. I got the "19 mil" number by counting the pixels in the FT's chart, since Counterpoint's report isn't public and I found no WSJ or FT article writing the number out. The chart can also be seen here hosted on John Gruber's Daring Fireball blog (taken from this post criticising the FT article I added). DFlhb (talk) 23:30, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Found out that in his 2022 book, Mickle (same author as the NYT piece) said the 40 million was Apple's internal estimate. I still think it makes more sense to compare to estimated units sold rather than the pre-release estimate. DFlhb (talk) 00:03, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

It works best as an operative comparison if it's comparing the internal sales estimates in advance of launch, mainly as a point of reference with another Apple mass consumer product.

Also a note on text–source integrity: If the info/citation changed for the latter clause, is the sentence's initial clause also verified in that new citation? If not, the NYT citation should be kept to source the earlier part of the sentence. czar 04:21, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Disagree, because the headset forecast incorporates knowledge gained from the missed Apple Watch estimate, so it makes more sense to compare the headset forecast with realised watch shipments, as the FT did (more reliable on finance than NYT, whose editors didn't catch Mickle's contradicting his book). I'll revert it if you insist, since this is subjective.

"D'oh" on that last point; should have thought of that, fixed — DFlhb (talk) 07:24, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

merge with Apple Vision Pro

Page should be merged riffic (talk) 19:00, 5 June 2023 (UTC)