Increasingly Unfamiliar Apple Cringe Objects
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 21:21 (four weeks 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.
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 (four weeks ago) link
I mean they launched the iPod right after 9/11 and that was OK
― stet, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:48 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
Philip... thank you
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:21 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
M4 iPads, great, my M1 iPad is just way too slow at reading PDFs and watching YouTube videos.
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:32 (two weeks ago) link
haha i was gonna say. tremendous upgrades for something that is user-hostile for anything other than watching netflix in bed with
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:50 (two weeks ago) link
even that isn't ideal if you want to eat some popcorn at the same time
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:02 (two weeks ago) link
Apple deletes San Francisco highway to better advertise new iPads
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-ipad-launch-sf-highway-19444449.php
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:10 (two weeks ago) link
That new version of Final Cut getting some screen time
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:13 (two weeks ago) link
new Logic Pro adds AI!!!!!!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:14 (two weeks ago) link