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  • Tim Cook: Apple Vision Pro tech is mindblowing, and will be too expensive for many

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    kestral said:
    When you consider that the goggles literally give you a high quality monitor the size of your entire width and depth of vision, it's way cheaper than a Pro Display XDR. That feature alone justifies the pricing.
    If you have the money, which I do not as a retiree. I do good to update my MacBook and iPad Pro every 4-5 years, pay for iphone upgrade program with monthly payments.  And as a retiree does not fit with what I do at home with my wife (kids all grown and gone) in terms of watching TV or whatever.  Now as retired geologist if I were working  (maybe consulting) I could see some cool computing uses and not needing space for all the big displays. But at 72 not planning such any more (thought about consulting when I retired in 2007 but things did not work.  So probably not justifiable for us right now or near future. Down road who knows.
    byronlwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Tim Cook: Apple Vision Pro tech is mindblowing, and will be too expensive for many

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    JP234 said:
    Future tech is never cheap. When the future becomes mainstream, the price drops, usually precipitously. Every $500 drop in the price of Vision Pro (or Vision Amateur, whatever they decide to call it), will bring in tens of thousands of new endusers. My price is about $1,500-1,750 (AppleCare included) same as a new laptop. And I need to see new, dedicated apps that I can't get anywhere else. I may have to wait a long time, may never at all. I'm OK either way.
    Yeah maybe then.  $1K (applecare and such included) and on a plan or way to update my iphone also every other year and you got me LOL but also need to see as retired geologist what use one of these would have for me.
    williamlondonJP234

  • Steve Wozniak 'can't tell the difference' between iPhone 12 and iPhone 13

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    xyzzy01 said:
    Woz is right.

    Sure, 13 is better than 12: The CPU is faster, the screen is a little better on some, the battery life is improved, the camera is a little better. However, all of these were pretty good already. This is evolution, not revolution.

    It's not like the early days when we got 3G, then retina displays, next year touch ID - and exciting new designs every 2 years.  The tech is fairly mature now.

    Same with the software offerings - the novelties in this year's release were very minor. E.g. I don't expect to ever bother using SharePlay.
    True but the improvements for me were a bit more important in the 12-13 ProMax evolution than what I felt I got in the 11 to 12 ProMax evolution as good as they were.  But as we can all agree the importance of the evolutionary changes probably varies for each person. If they did not do the iUP program I probably would wait more like I do in my iPad and MacBook (every 3-4 years leaning towards 4 years). So for the M1 MacBooks for example my late 2018 15 inch MacBook Pro still does all I need so I will wait several more years and just save up for new model as it gets to have issues and not allow me to use features and new updates. More important is security since I do on line banking and orders although I can keep most of that to iphone and ipad and keep MacBooks even longer
    muthuk_vanalingam