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Apple slashes Vision Pro goals as manufacturers struggle with product design - reports

Firm is now preparing to make fewer than 400,000 units of the headset in 2024, down from its original target of 1 million

Vision Pro: The headset is Apple’s latest move to sustain sales momentum and try to propel a mixed-reality industry that for years has struggled to make it into the mainstream

Apple Inc. is slashing production targets for its Vision Pro because manufacturers are struggling with the novel gadget’s complex design, the Financial Times reported.

Apple is now preparing to make fewer than 400,000 units of the $3,499 headset in 2024, it said, citing unidentified people close to Apple and Luxshare Precision Industry Co., the Chinese firm that’s initially assembling the device. Two China-based suppliers of components said Apple was only asking for enough parts for ...