but you'll ruin the aesthetics!
― koogs, Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:55 (two months ago) link
I’ve had the same thing happen with metal flashlights, especially those maglite multiple-D cell models. Any battery that decides to corrode and expand will jam it up.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 March 2024 13:43 (two months ago) link
Larry David uses Siri in the new Curb season… pic.twitter.com/7Cat3a8qQU— Ryan Jones (@rjonesy) February 26, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/04/m3-macbook-air-two-displays-lid-closed/
hallelujah
― 龜, Monday, 4 March 2024 13:48 (one month ago) link
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/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 April 2024 18:44 (three weeks ago) link
I thought Woot sold returned / refurbished stuff
― calstars, Friday, 5 April 2024 18:47 (three weeks ago) link
after the early starry-eyed reviews, not sure I've heard anything I would qualify as good news for the Vision Pro
― default damager (lukas), Friday, 5 April 2024 20:36 (three weeks ago) link
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."
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 6 April 2024 04:05 (three weeks ago) link
That’s $34 million …nbd
― calstars, Saturday, 6 April 2024 07:36 (three weeks ago) link
https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564
― 龜, Monday, 22 April 2024 18:51 (one week ago) link
no surprise. regular people aren't going to adopt AR/VR until it's the size and weight of a pair of sunglasses.
― beard papa, Monday, 22 April 2024 19:03 (one week ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 April 2024 19:08 (one week ago) link
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
― calstars, Monday, 22 April 2024 19:18 (one week ago) link
xpost
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.
― beard papa, Monday, 22 April 2024 20:34 (one week ago) link
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.
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.
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:41 (one week ago) link
A swing…and a miss. Good try though
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:11 (one week ago) link
From where did they build their expectations?
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:41 (one week ago) link
Increasingly Unfamiliar Apple Cringe Objects
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 21:21 (one week ago) link
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?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:04 (one week ago) link
I mean they launched the iPod right after 9/11 and that was OK
― stet, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:48 (one week ago) link
Ha! I guess in retrospect U2 did more reputational damage to Apple than Al Qaeda
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link
Philip... thank you
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:21 (one week ago) link
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
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:58 (one week ago) link