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The company doesn’t break out sales data on the product, but revenue in Apple’s wearables category fell 7% in the fiscal year ended September 2024—the year the Vision Pro went on sale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Think of it the way you might think of eggs: not as a single category, but as a spectrum of doneness, of mood, of purpose.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Healthcare surpassed housing and utilities in early 2023 as the fastest-growing category in the personal consumption expenditures price index, or PCE, the inflation measure that the Fed watches most closely.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Both fall under the category of "mundane job simulations", an ever-growing gaming genre in which people carry out routine and - on the face of it - not very exciting tasks.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Or is there a third category that, ethically speaking, is not so clear-cut?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell