Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

is it good when retailers are trying to dump stock 3 months after launch and no software is being released?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-is-selling-the-apple-vision-pro-at-a-rare-200-discount-and-i-dont-expect-it-to-last/

I thought Woot sold returned / refurbished stuff

after the early starry-eyed reviews, not sure I've heard anything I would qualify as good news for the Vision Pro

is this good?

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/05/tim-cook-sells-nearly-200k-aapl-shares/

In 2015, Fortune reported that Cook planned to "give away all his wealth."

That’s $34 million …nbd

https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564

no surprise. regular people aren't going to adopt AR/VR until it's the size and weight of a pair of sunglasses.

Tbf I don’t think they expected this to be a hit with regular people yet, but it’s not going to be a hit with tech nerds in the meantime if there is nothing you can do with it because they make no news apps themselves after launch, and their hostile behavior has driven away the developers they need.

At rhe stores they have these little circular seating areas for anyone who doesn’t care embarrassing themselves to sit and try it out .,, also there’s an espresso machine there to help with point of sale

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After I posted that I said something similar to a friend of mine who bought one and he basically said what you did: Apple messed up the launch. The codec they use for immersive content was kept secret and they haven't released anything themselves since the day it launched.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-cuts-vision-pro-shipments/

Apple has dropped the number of Vision Pro units that it plans to ship in 2024, going from an expected 700 to 800k units to just 400k to 450k units, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

Orders have been scaled back before the Vision Pro has launched in markets outside of the United States, which Kuo says is a sign that demand in the U.S. has "fallen sharply beyond expectations." As a result, Apple is expected to take a "conservative view" of headset demand when the Vision Pro launches in additional countries.

A swing…and a miss. Good try though

From where did they build their expectations?

Increasingly Unfamiliar Apple Cringe Objects

no surprise. regular people aren't going to adopt AR/VR until it's the size and weight of a pair of sunglasses.

I tried the demo at a store -- the eye tracking and peripheral-free gestures are mind-readingly "this changes everything" magical but yeah, it's so heavy that the thought of watching a whole movie in it immediately felt like a chore.

They'd already separated out a heavy, bulky battery pack -- why not offload the computing hardware and weight itself onto a separate portable computer? they could have made the headpiece lighter and possibly carved out a headless portable mac category for people who don't even care about VR.

If that also helped cut down on development time, they could have released this during the pandemic and likely would have definitively "won" the VR space but maybe having your signature product be emotionally tied to a global catastrophe is off-brand for Apple?

I mean they launched the iPod right after 9/11 and that was OK

Ha! I guess in retrospect U2 did more reputational damage to Apple than Al Qaeda

Philip... thank you

I dont think it’s the computing hardware that’s the weight but rather the glass and metal accents (purely aesthetic) vs thr quest’s use of plastic

M4 iPads, great, my M1 iPad is just way too slow at reading PDFs and watching YouTube videos.

haha i was gonna say. tremendous upgrades for something that is user-hostile for anything other than watching netflix in bed with

even that isn't ideal if you want to eat some popcorn at the same time

Apple deletes San Francisco highway to better advertise new iPads

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-ipad-launch-sf-highway-19444449.php

That new version of Final Cut getting some screen time

new Logic Pro adds AI!!!!!!

AI, anyone?

"Hey Siri, call goomah"
"CALL MOM?"
"No! Call goomah!"
"CALLING MOM"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNG2--GczI

I was going to outburst "I remember when you saw actual code in the WWDC keynote" until I realized that it's like complaining that MTV doesn't show videos anymore.

when they led with the Vision Pro stuff I thought for a moment they might do the funniest thing: tell the devs they'll get more API features on all the other platforms as soon as they start shipping apps for the headset

Apple takes a page from AllTrails and will have hiking maps of all 63 U.S. National Parks available.

Which is great, if you live within 1000 miles of Cupertino. The rest of us will be using them to get around the city of Hot Springs and the Gateway Arch museum, I guess.

The popular location app will also have voice guidance for trail directions

I'm bringing bear spray just for the moment I hear Siri yapping in the Flatside Wilderness.

the only national parks are on the west coast? news to me!

well they’re very concentrated in the west. here in the northeast we have acadia and that’s it.

the only national parks are on the west coast? news to me!

Who said they were?

You said this hiking trails feature is only useful within 1000 miles of cupertino

Hmmm mmmm. And you know what I didn't say?

https://i.imgur.com/dwuAkAs.png

Look, I love national parks. I love to hike. But it's a little unnecessary to include all this!

It sounds like Apple seeing a cool app out there and attempting to blow them out of the water in some sort of hamfisted way.

Hahaha I think it’s very telling that Apple is now at the point where one can say “this app is most useful within 1000 miles of Apple’s headquarters” and everyone assumes it’s because of an app limitation and not because the dataset powering the app fits that paradigm

pour one out for platt national park

Hiking the St. Louis arch

Which is great, if you live within 1000 miles of Cupertino. The rest of us will be using them to get around the city of Hot Springs and the Gateway Arch museum, I guess.

can someone dumb this down for me

they're not really hiking locations

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the country!

Look I'm all for shitting down Apple's neck but I don't think this is a sound line of critique

many of the national parks not within 1000 miles of cupertino kind of suck (i.e. gateway arch is a manmade monument that was made into a national park for political reasons and that the NPS was against making into a park, hot springs is actually a resort, indiana dunes is just like a lake beach? and cuyahoga valley is a superfund site) and as mh said don't really have hiking

Also I love cell service please, sir, tell me, is there cell service in gates of the arctic?

Sir, I must know, do batteries do well in the cold?

Sir, I can no longer wait, tell me what the hiking trails are for the reefs in the US Virgin Islands

i didn't mention congaree, which i actually like, but many people dismiss as just a big swamp. for comparison, compare the number of trails available in congarees in alltrails with those available in, say, glacier:

https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/south-carolina/congaree-national-park
https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/montana/glacier-national-park

anyway i don't really agree with pp's criticism but i understand where it's coming from. this is a feature that is much more likely to be dreamt up in cupertino than in hoboken. but as a parks guy i think it's cool and welcome it. and it gave me an excuse to talk a bit about congaree, which has a mosquito meter.