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Apple Vision Pro $3,499 mixed-reality headset launches at WWDC after years of rumors
Well, it just saved me from buying more monitors, so it's pretty cheap. 3D camera capability looks fun.gatorguy said:It does not seem like a very Apple-y product, but that's not unexpected either. It's a first gen, and according to reports was intended for developers anyway. Three years out they may have something. At the moment it seems like it was pushed out to the retail market before it's fully hatched, and I'm not sure why altho I could guess there's some other nearly-finished products from potential competitors coming before the year is out.
No doubt some regular users here will rush to buy a Vision Pro anyway; after all, it's from Apple. By the time it's fully developed in gen 3 I would expect it to be half to a third of the current price. That's when it may capture my interest. Or not.
Meanwhile, Google and Meta are furiously working back at the drawing board... Another Oh shi! moment for those guys, just like with iPhone and Apple Watch.
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Editorial: Apple survived 2016's onslaught of fake news and failed competitors
Excellent article, as always, from DED.
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HomePod occupies 4 percent of smart speaker market as sector growth soars
I's like to see the same graph but based on profits.
As an aside, I now have Alexa, Goggle assistant and Siri on my iPhone and after hours of asking them all the same questions it is pretty amazing for me to discover Alexa and Google assistant are just as prone to the 'I don't know that' as Siri.
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Apple Watch sensor has racial bias, claims new lawsuit
I can't see what Apple could do? If they improved the sensitivity wouldn't that just make measurements better for light skins too, thus maintaining the differential? It's physics not bias.
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CNN to compete with Apple News+ via own news subscription service
I guess we can see who all the Fox Faux News aficionados are.
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European Union evaluating if Corning monopolizes the smartphone screen market
Here is some fun history:The story goes that in 2006, while developing the first iPhone, Steve Jobs knew he wanted the screen to be made from glass rather than plastic. Plastic scratched too easily, and he wanted a product that would feel and look high-quality, something that would age well. So he reached out to Corning Inc., a company known for its expertise in glass manufacturing.
Jobs met with Corning’s then-CEO, Wendell Weeks, and told him that he needed a tough, scratch-resistant glass. Weeks told Jobs about a glass formula Corning had invented in the 1960s called “Gorilla Glass.” Though it was incredibly strong, it hadn’t been commercialized because they hadn’t found a market for it back then.
Jobs was determined to make Gorilla Glass a reality for the iPhone. According to the story, Weeks initially thought it would be impossible to produce enough of this glass in time for Apple’s planned iPhone launch. But Jobs, with his famously persuasive style, told him, “Don’t be afraid. You can do it.”
Corning quickly ramped up production, reactivating the Gorilla Glass formula and scaling it to meet Apple’s demand. By the time the first iPhone launched in 2007, Gorilla Glass was ready, and it went on to become a foundational material in smartphone design, not just for Apple but eventually for much of the mobile industry.
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What happened during the troubled Big Sur launch, and why Apple can't let it happen again
How about you just go.stafsergeant said:I think it’s time for upper echelons to go starting with Cook.
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US DOJ attacks nearly every aspect of Apple's business in massive antitrust suit
So, after so many years of being called a walled garden (and derided by the then more popular Android crap users), many here voluntarily joined that garden experience. Then, jealous others sue to get access to the garden. Now, it's a monopoly. Just wonderful!
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Apple Vision Pro $3,499 mixed-reality headset launches at WWDC after years of rumors
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Facebook app accesses iPhone camera without user's knowledge
Gosh what a surprise.
