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  • Apple supplier Foxconn replaces 60,000 workers with robots

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    If manufacturing becomes more automated and relies less on human workers, is there any reason to continue to do it in China?
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  • Apple Vision Pro is motivating a giant California health provider

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    Wow, this seems like quite a big investment they’re making, given that the Vision Pro is not yet a mature platform. 

    IRC, the iPad didn’t make its way into the hands of doctors and nurses until a few years after its debut. 

    If this kind of interest in adopting the Vision Pro spreads across other fields of work,  this may be Apple’s most successful launch of a new product category to date. Exciting to think about!
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  • Adobe releases Photoshop and Premiere Elements 15 for Mac with new automated tools

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    Why do I get the feeling that the frown is the photoshopped picture, and not the one with the smile...
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  • Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees

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    I’d guess that Apple’s decision to not produce a car was about not only low profit margin, but also whether they could bring enough innovative technology to a car that would warrant a higher profit margin. 

    I can imagine Tim Cook saying in a closed door meeting, “Our current and near-future machine learning algorithms for an autonomous self driving system are not good enough to make a truly safe car experience, so we’re not going to bring it to market.”

    On a side note, this seems quite different from what Elon Musk and Tesla have done regarding their autonomous self driving system. Even letting Tesla owners be guinea pigs and risking their own safety to test their system. 
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  • Everything went Apple's way at the annual shareholders meeting

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    I don’t believe it’s Apple’s responsibility to push for privacy and human rights in China, Russia and abroad. 

    Of course I believe these should be respected and protected by law everywhere, but we should not be asking a business to take part in foreign policy. 
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  • Morgan Stanley dubs Apple Vision Pro a 'free call option on spatial computing'

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    omasou said:
    What is going on with the world?

    I have NEVER seen as many journalists, reviewers, etc. focus on the positives and potentials of an Apple product!

    Instead of the norm reporting that focus on the negatives and how the product is a failure. This time they explicitly stating they instead understand that this is a Gen 1 product and that the negatives will eventually be resolved going forward.
    I feel the same way. I can’t recall any investment analyst being this positive about a first gen Apple product before. Perhaps this is a testament to how impressive the Vision Pro is, even in its first iteration. This gives me high hopes for its future prospects, both as an investor and as an Apple enthusiast. 
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  • Apple will reap the rewards of the cancelled Apple Car project for decades

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    The parallel made in this article to Apple having been rumored to produce a TV set is apropos. 

    Many pundits thought it was a good idea and kept beating the drum and spreading rumors of its imminent launch. However, those with intimate knowledge of the Apple way knew that making a TV set ultimately didn’t make sense. And now, we have the Vision Pro, which revolutionizes the TV experience. 

    I suspect the fate of the Apple Car will be similar, meaning that it may be put on hold until a time when Apple can introduce a car that will be so advanced technologically that it will revolutionize the car experience. 

    IMO, these kinds of decisions to not release a product until it’s insanely great, is a testament that Tim Cook learned well the lesson from Steve Jobs about saying no in order to stay focused. 
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  • Apple Vision Pro one month review: a new reality is setting in

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    I think because of Steve Jobs’s influence, gaming is not a priority for Apple, and it appears this is still true with the Vision Pro. 

    I suspect, in the past, Apple has chosen to focus on making productivity devices over entertainment devices. I think this was a trade off that Apple had to make, to focus more on CPU (general computing) power and less on GPU (strictly graphics computing). But I think this has been changing, with a sea change with Apple Silicon. 

    With machine learning and artificial intelligence relying heavily on graphics processing power, and Apple moving in this direction, the processing power needed to make games on par and even better than Windows games has and will continue to exist on Apple devices. 

    The remaining element is to kick start a gaming revolution on MacOS and VisionOS. This may come with the convergence of two events: an affordable Vision device comes to market, and Apple buys a game studio and releases its first game. 

    But before this can happen, Apple probably needs someone to champion gaming on their leadership team. Someone pragmatic enough to see that gaming is an Incredibly powerful driver of growth in computing, and be willing to lead Apple down this path. 
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