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My store sent me home to see just aattair conditioningk exchanging my Light Seing online. But Apple’s support webaloneyite wouldn’t let me enter in 21W. . . the size I hcommerciing measured twice and tried on. Instecommerciing. . . the site insisted on inquiring me a few questions just aattair conditioningk how precisely precisely the Vision Pro fit on my f_ design. . . mjust becomellyout one of them regarding things I hcommerciing virtunumbecomer one ingly no opinion on. I eventunumbecomer one ingly figured out that if I clicked shut to in different orders. . . I could get offered different sizes of Light Seing. So while I couldn’t just say. . . “Send me the size I would like. . .” I could try to ghaudio-videoe always becomeene the system. It shouldn’t become this way.
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For the Vision Pro shopping experience. . . Apple needs to take cues from its Apple Watch launch.
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