Apple Vision Pro: A New Design with a Unique Connector

The Apple Vision Pro is set to launch soon, and it comes with a distinctive feature: a wired battery pack. While this design may not be perfect, it certainly stands out. As the first Apple Vision Pro headsets enter the market, we are learning more about this peculiar design element. Some aspects are commendable, while others are less favorable.

One of the positive aspects is that the cable connecting the Vision Pro can be detached from the battery pack using a simple paper clip or SIM removal tool. However, it is worth noting that this cable is unlike the typical Lightning connector found on Apple devices. Instead, it sports a wider 12-pin connector, as opposed to the usual 8 pins in the Lightning cable. To emphasize the size difference, a comparison between the new cable, Lightning, and USB-C has been shared by Ray Wong from Inverse.

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The reason behind Apple’s decision to adopt this bulkier connector instead of the more common USB-C remains unclear. Some speculate that it may be a strategy to discourage users from using third-party battery packs, compelling them to purchase Apple-approved accessories exclusively.

Official Vision Pro batteries are priced at $199 each, while charging cables are available at $19 for a 1-meter length and $29 for 2 meters.

Some have also pondered how the European Union (EU) might respond to this unconventional cable, considering their mandate for USB-C adoption in smartphones. However, since the Vision Pro falls under a different category as a headset, it may not be subject to the same regulations. Currently, the Vision Pro is only available in the United States, and it is uncertain whether it will be released in the EU.

Despite potential concerns with the cable’s durability, the fact that it is removable offers the advantage of replacing just the cable if it breaks, rather than having to purchase an entirely new battery. Nonetheless, it is disappointing that Apple continues to introduce proprietary connectors, rather than standardizing like other companies in the industry.

The Apple Vision Pro brings innovation and distinctiveness to the world of headsets. While its wired battery design and unique connector may have their pros and cons, they undoubtedly contribute to the overall appeal and individuality of the product.

Apple Vision Pro๋Š” ๊ณง ์ถœ์‹œ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์€ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ํŠน์ง•์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ์œ ์„  ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒฉ์„ ํƒ‘์žฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ์ด ๋””์ž์ธ์€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋…๋ณด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Apple Vision Pro ํ—ค๋“œ์…‹์ด ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ, ์ด ํŠน์ดํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ ์š”์†Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ์นญ์ฐฌํ• ๋งŒํ•œ ์ ๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ธก๋ฉด ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” Vision Pro์™€ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒฉ์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์ด ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์ข…์ด ํด๋ฆฝ์ด๋‚˜ SIM ์ œ๊ฑฐ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์€ ์• ํ”Œ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ Lightning ์ปค๋„ฅํ„ฐ์™€๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์€ ๋ณดํ†ต 8๊ฐœ ํ•€์ด ์žˆ๋Š” Lightning ์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ๋Œ€์‹  ๋” ๋„“์€ 12๊ฐœ ํ•€ ์ปค๋„ฅํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, Inverse์˜ Ray Wong์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”, Lightning ๋ฐ USB-C ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋น„๊ต๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Apple์ด ๋ณดํ†ต ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” USB-C ๋Œ€์‹  ์ด ๋” ํฐ ์ปค๋„ฅํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„ํƒํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์•„์ง ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์ด ํƒ€์‚ฌ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒฉ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์–ต์ง€๋กœ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „์šฉ ์•ก์„ธ์„œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์• ํ”Œ์—์„œ๋งŒ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋„๋ก ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ถ”์ธกํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณต์‹ Vision Pro ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 199๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ถฉ์ „ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์€ 1๋ฏธํ„ฐ ๊ธธ์ด์— 19๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, 2๋ฏธํ„ฐ์— 29๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์—ฐํ•ฉ(EU)์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์‘ํ• ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์—์„œ์˜ USB-C ์ฑ„ํƒ์„ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” Vision Pro๊ฐ€ ํ—ค๋“œ์…‹์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์— ์†ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ Vision Pro๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋งŒ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, EU์—์„œ ์ถœ์‹œ๋ ์ง€๋Š” ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์˜ ๋‚ด๊ตฌ์„ฑ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ž ์žฌ์ ์ธ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์€ ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”์ด ๊ณ ์žฅ๋‚˜๋ฉด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ์ผ€์ด๋ธ”๋งŒ ๊ต์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์ ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์• ํ”Œ์€ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋‚ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ์ „์šฉ ์ปค๋„ฅํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‹ค๋ง์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Apple Vision Pro๋Š” ํ—ค๋“œ์…‹์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ํ˜์‹ ๊ณผ ๋…ํŠนํ•จ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์„  ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋””์ž์ธ๊ณผ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ปค๋„ฅํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์žฅ๋‹จ์ ์ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋งค๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋…์ž์„ฑ์— ํ‹€๋ฆผ์—†์ด ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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