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  • Amazon Alexa making appearance in $1000 Vuzix augmented reality smart glasses

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    These at least look like a plausible set of eyewear, unlike many of the monstrosities to which we've been subjected.
    I think an important consideration to keep in mind is that these glasses aren't tracking your head movement, are unaware of the environment, and are using your cellphone for some of the computing. The monstrosities out there like Hololens and the upcoming slightly less monstrous Magic Leap One are packed with an armada of environmental depth mapping cameras that enable inside out positional tracking so you can move and AR objects remain realistically positioned in the real world. This takes a higher spec on-board computer (or dedicated belt-clip compute unit thingy) to handle high frame rate, low latency 3D rendering like that.  Apple is going this more advanced route supposedly, most likely with good looks even better than this pair in the article here.
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  • Apple Silicon will force industry to reconsider use of Intel chips, says ex-Apple exec

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    Apple's potential for success with this transition seems possible only because of all the custom narrow-function silicon and software stacks built on top of the base ARM architecture that they've constantly refined with each new iPhone and iPad SOC over the years. While not impossible, I would be shocked to see anyone be able to compete in performance using ARM anytime soon.

    Best case scenario, Microsoft has had a skunk works project going for many years developing a similar custom SOC based on ARM that we don't know about yet, but no amount of money can substitute for the experience of having production hardware and software in people's hands for the better part of a decade.
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  • Review: Logitech nails it with MX Keys keyboard, MX Master 3 for Mac and iPad

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    I'm a bit baffled by the changes to the Apple version of the MX Keys. Aside from the change in tone to match the Apple hardware, the original keyboard seems superior in a few small ways.

    The original universal version of MX Keys has split opt/start and cmd/alt buttons with the Mac keyboard iconography and omits the redundant right-side OPT button, opting instead for a FN (function) key. The Mac version FN key replaces the Insert key up near the home/end/delete/page buttons. Also because Mac keyboards apparently still need a dedicated disc eject key for some reason in 2020 (?!?!) the Mac version loses the dedicated 'minimize all windows' button on the F5 key. I understand this is probably necessary to comply with Apple's standards for stuff marketed as "made for Mac" or whatever they call it now, but that seems like a unfortunate technicality.

    Perhaps 'Insert' and 'minimize all windows' isn't supported in Mac OS, but either way, you'd be buying a version of this $100 keyboard with amazing multi-device capabilities and losing general cross-OS functionality while gaining nothing Mac-specific. If you expect you'll never hook this up to a Windows machine and especially care about the aesthetics, I can see the appeal of getting this version. Otherwise, get the (better looking IMO) slightly darker gray universal version.

    Also FWIW, the MX Master 3 mouse is the same exact one that's been on sale for the last year or so. Alluding to it as a Mac version is purely a marketing play. But that hardly matters, it's a super badass mouse no matter how it's labeled. That scroll wheel alone makes it a true magic mouse.
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  • Tim Cook's leadership style has 'reshaped how Apple staff work and think'

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    I'm not a Cook apologist by any means, but I think it's worth remembering that Apple have allegedly had at least two major, potentially market shattering projects very credibly rumored over the last decade; the car and the AR glasses.

    Jobs' oversight of the relatively rapid evolution of technology from the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad makes sense because there's a degree of natural iteration from one to the next. The stakes were high for the company and all three were groundbreaking in their own right.

    Cook seems to have placed major bets on some very long plays that may or may not pan out (the car development sounds like a bumpy road), but to say they're not focused on Jobsian-levels of innovation seems off the mark. They not fighting for their life anymore so they don't need to be scrappy, rapid innovators. I reckon Apple are swinging even harder for the fences than they ever have, only with much higher odds of whiffing if they don't take the time to nail it perfectly.
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