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future man said:

I think that the progression of time has passed the Kindle device as an all-in-one iPad device offers so much greater device utilization!

The Kindle and iPad are great complements to each other.  I regularly switch between my iPhone, ipad and kindle when reading a book depending on my location.  When traveling, I generally don't have to worry about my Kindle's battery for a week long trip, its always ready to go.  If I could only have one, I would take the ipad, but would definitely recommend an Kindle to anyone who is an avid reader and is not tied to paper.  

slow n easy said:

dantheman827 said:

I wonder how many of those are users who have no choice because they use iOS?

There is a choice. You can download Chrome on iOS.

Chrome on iOS is not Chromium based, its Webkit based.  Apple requires other browsers to use the Webkit rendering engine, they do not allow other rendering engines on iOS(IE, not chromium based browsers).  So essentially, your using a skinned version of Safari if you opt into chrome.

lorca2770 said:

Sad that there is not Safari for PC, then, it would be different

Safari used to be available for PC, however support for it ended due to "lack of interest" around 2012.  It had a marginal market share in the PC browser space.

Beats said:

bulk001 said:

 

“They haven’t done much of anything”

I love how people pretend Apple Watch and AirPods aren’t some of the biggest inventions in human history and didn’t just happen within the past 10 years.

Heres some world changing products I can randomly think of from the past 2 decades:

iPod
iTunes
Nintendo Wii
Apple earbuds with mic
iPhone
iPad
Siri
Tesla Cars
ApplePay
Apple Watch
AirPods

People expect Apple to create a world changing product every 2 years but that’s just not probable. I mean if you look at the last 2 decades it’s hard to string that many products referencing ALL tech companies COMBINED.

But buying EA, a software company that doesn’t build hardware will be a revolutionary product or revolutionary decision? Come on man….

I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with you, mainly because I don't think half of your list is "world changing".  I think its safe to say that the iPod was a revolution in the MP3 player market, but it was the iTunes store model that was truly market changing, resulting in standardizing market pricing and making purchasing music just as convenient as pirating.  The iphone and ipad were true revolutions, I would throw the M1 chip in their as its a revolution in performance per watt and gives you desktop performance(in many metrics) in very efficient/portable devices.  While I think its a stretch to say Applepay was world changing, it did helped popularize NFC based payments.  However, this already existed and was much more widespread in Europe using cards with NFC built in.  Siri has never lived up to the promise and has languished.  Apple Watch is the best device in its category(though I would argue for Garmin if your really serious about exercise tracking), but even it had to shift to a health and fitness device from the original fashion device category.  And airpods are top tier bluetooth headphones and very popular, but I don't think they are world changing, as brands like Sony and beats already existed in that market with basically the same feature set, other than the custom chips for pairing with iphones.  I also think the Wii was an absolute dead end and the Switch would go on my list as more revolutionary, but all this is just my personal opinion.

Sorry, long winded response, but I do agree that apple gains very little from EA.  Any creativity that EA used to have is gone, they are more likely to put out iterative, loot box containing sequels instead of anything exciting and new.  They have blundered multiple online game launches, had to strip out pay to win features after fans revolted, and continue to make a big chunk of their revenue of the Fifa ultimate league, which is pay to win.  So no, I don't see much good in buying EA.  Also, someone else mentioned EA's proprietary Frostbite engine, but I have always heard that it presents a ton of development headaches and has been forced onto the various development teams.  I think Unreal Engine 5 is leaps and bounds ahead of other engines, and we will see less and less proprietary engines.

I think at this point for a stand alone headset that people would actually wear throughout the day, AR is far more likely than VR(weight, latency, FOV, etc).  What I would like to see is integration across devices so that the AR would be useful.  IE, if I get it my car, it recognizes its in my car and will overlay mapping detail, speed or other useful statistics.  If I am at my desk at work, it will work with my Setup and allow me to place additional screens or assigned notifications or somehow be additive to my workflow, but continue to keep me up to date on emails/messages when I am away from my desk.  If I was at a live sports event, it would give me something like the "Fox Box" with scores, stats, etc.  Basically, I am not necessarily looking for a highly interactive experience at this point(in fact, I would find that dangerous for driving or even just walking around).  I would just like something that intelligently puts the relevant information in to a my field of view, but not in a extremely distracting manner.

What I would really like to see is all devices and stores(cars, motorcycles, computers, grocery stores, etc) start to incorporate a standard communication platform similar to "Matter" for the smart home.  One of the simplest explanations I could give is if I went to Lowes and wanted to know where the plumbers putty is, the glasses could interact with information from the store and guide me to the location(just spent 10 minutes walking around the plumbing section of Lowes to find it at an end cap by the sinks...).