Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

they should have made the little tube bigger. there fixed it somebody make me head of design at apple inc

but you'll ruin the aesthetics!

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.

Larry David uses Siri in the new Curb season… pic.twitter.com/7Cat3a8qQU

— Ryan Jones (@rjonesy) February 26, 2024

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/04/m3-macbook-air-two-displays-lid-closed/

hallelujah

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

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.

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