A outstanding provide chain analyst claims mass manufacturing of the successor to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will start in late 2025 or early 2026.
Ming-Chi Kuo, who has been reporting on Apple’s provide chain for greater than 10 years, launched a report right this moment with quite a few claims about Imaginative and prescient Professional’s success and Apple’s future plans for it and future fashions.
Again in January Kuo claimed Apple would solely have 60,000–80,000 models obtainable for launch day, and that Apple had 160,000–180,000 US preorders.
Kuo says he expects Apple to ship a complete of 200,000–250,000 models total this yr, and predicts Apple will launch Imaginative and prescient Professional, at the moment solely obtainable within the US, in additional international locations earlier than June.
For comparability, in October Kuo claimed Meta would produce 2.5 million Quest 3 headsets by the top of 2023.
Kuo additionally experiences that regardless of some media sensationalism about widespread returns, refurbishment line sources recommend Imaginative and prescient Professional’s return charge is lower than 1%, matching Apple’s different merchandise.
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Whereas earlier experiences from Kuo and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have talked about Apple engaged on a less expensive non-Professional Imaginative and prescient headset, Kuo now says Apple hasn’t but superior this mission to the stage of speaking with suppliers or assemblers, suggesting that headset remains to be very early in improvement.
Alternatively, Kuo experiences Apple is already planning manufacturing of a Imaginative and prescient Professional successor with Foxconn, the Taiwanese firm that manufactures iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, to start in late 2025 or early 2026.
Kuo claims this Imaginative and prescient Professional successor will concentrate on “enhancing the effectivity of manufacturing and provide chain” to cut back prices and enhance manufacturing capability, moderately than including new options or making vital spec adjustments. Mark Gurman has beforehand stated Apple’s prime precedence for the Imaginative and prescient Professional successor is making it smaller and lighter. The heavy weight and ensuing poor consolation is arguably the largest draw back of the present Imaginative and prescient Professional, as we mentioned in our evaluate.
Given the manufacturing timeline, this Imaginative and prescient Professional successor might launch within the first half of 2026, round two years after the present Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
