In Silicon Valley's long tradition of visionary patience, Apple executive John Ternus last week recast Vision Pro not as a stumbling product but as the early chapter of a platform story still being written. Speaking against a backdrop of modest sales and market skepticism, Ternus invoked the same temporal logic Apple once applied to the iPhone and iPad — that transformative technologies are judged not by their first years, but by the ecosystems they eventually make possible. The statement is less a defense of what Vision Pro is today than a wager on what spatial computing might become.