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AppleInsider said:

I also missed the larger screen more than we expected, and the battery life was incredible. [. . .] I go through phases where we just... forget it exists.

I really appreciate this review but I have to say the first person plural for such a personal device and review felt forced, and was particularly distracting when toggling between singular and plural, sometimes in the same clause.

Enjoyed this article. I appreciate the personal anecdotes and particularly the thesis that the fact that AVP being a fully realized product should bode better for it than some of the other false starts in the AR space.

That said, AVP mainly seems like AirPods Max for the eyes. (Which would actually be pretty handy for me working from home as media professional being able to have a truly compact dedicated work space.) but hard to roll the dice in a 3.5k purchase at the moment.

I think the real question here is what new use cases are enabled by headphones for your eyes that we haven’t imagined yet. And will culture eventually adapt to accept folks wearing these things in public as it has with headphones (that back in the day could be a symbol of being anti-social, showy, or both)

As to the author’s last prompt/question. I have a broad one: what’s the balance between enhanced functionality/experience through integration vs sticky-walled-garden/monopoly? This question itself is a bit of a cliche I know, but I’d be interested in the current take in 2024. Is apple’s careful curation preventing us from being able to be sufficiently foolish?

not to quibble but disabling a feature seems more a workaround than fix.

anoylla said:

"I strongly dislike the facelift of System Preferences in Ventura. Older is better." I totally agree! If the purpose of updates is to make users' lives easier, then one thing is certain, System Preferences (System Settings in Ventura) has made users' lives a nightmare.

I wouldn't say older is intrinsically better, but it does feel like the apple faithful are being asked to accept a number of downgrades of late, in the name of... progress? the new system preferences is a prime (if relatively innocuous) example of this. 

Anyone know if Sync.com will be affected? doesn't seem like their end to end encryption would be compatible with this new API