I trust Elvis's experience on this. Our sample size of two probably doesn't compare to having to address a much greater number
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:45 (two months ago) link
they should have made the little tube bigger. there fixed it somebody make me head of design at apple inc
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:51 (two months ago) link
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 (two months 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 (one month ago) link
I thought Woot sold returned / refurbished stuff
― calstars, Friday, 5 April 2024 18:47 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
That’s $34 million …nbd
― calstars, Saturday, 6 April 2024 07:36 (one month ago) link
https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564
― 龜, Monday, 22 April 2024 18:51 (three 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.
― beard papa, Monday, 22 April 2024 19:03 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
A swing…and a miss. Good try though
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:11 (three weeks ago) link
From where did they build their expectations?
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:41 (three weeks ago) link
Increasingly Unfamiliar Apple Cringe Objects
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 21:21 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
I mean they launched the iPod right after 9/11 and that was OK
― stet, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:48 (three 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 (three weeks ago) link
Philip... thank you
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:21 (three 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 (three 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
That new version of Final Cut getting some screen time
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:13 (one week ago) link
new Logic Pro adds AI!!!!!!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:14 (one week ago) link