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  • Apple Vision Pro is already a win for Apple & consumers

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    designr said:
    There's an assumption built in here that so-called "spatial computing" is a real thing that anyone really wants.

    That's still to be determined.


    Being a long time Mac user, from way back in the day, many, many people considered the Mac a toy because of its GUI and they didn’t see the benefit of it because they couldn’t think beyond a command line. So doubting Apple and their vision is a fool’s errand, especially considering the several times they’ve released something that was doomed to fail only to end up to redefining (or owning) their respective markets. Apple doesn’t just throw a device out onto the market without thinking about the entire ecosystem or platform that does or will go along with it.

    The unfortunately aspect of the product is that it sat in R&D for so long, it got stuck with an M2 instead of an M3 (Although as far as SoC’s go, I think the rejiggered M3 Pro was designed to end up in this device.). 
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  • Netflix says use Safari on Apple Vision Pro, because you aren't getting an app

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Netflix not jumping in both feet first on a hyped new platform means they’ve taken a gander and weren’t impressed. 

    Kind of like everyone else not selling apps for it. 

    The effort and engineering power going into the VP is astounding. Unfortunately, it’s just fundamentally flawed as a concept. 

    Yeah, that’s not what that means. Netflix has a history of being hostile towards Apple’s platforms.
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  • The best Apple Vision Pro productivity apps at launch

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    Rogue01 said:
    According to the first picture, they claim PCalc is going to make Vision Pro worth buying???  A $3500 calculator?  Really?

    There is no such thing as spatial computing.  That is Apple's marketing spin for AR.  Look up the definition of AR and that is exactly what Vision Pro is.  Apple will really have a hard time claiming their device is not AR, when it actually is AR.  "Augmented reality is an interactive experience that enhances the real world with computer-generated perceptual information."  That is exactly what Vision Pro does.  Another article had the best description for Vision Pro - It is an answer looking for a question.  The AR space is dead, always has been.  Plenty of surveys have been done and once the novelty wears off, the goggles sit in a bookshelf.  No one wants to wear goggles for hours.  No one wants to spend $3500 for a pair of goggles to run iPadOS apps, or PCalc.  No one will put on goggles to create a Word or PowerPoint document.  This is a product that doesn't solve any problems because no one has any interest in AR.  And that is Apple's marketing problem.  They won't be able to convince anyone that it is a 'needed' product.  It is not an iPhone solving a problem with bad smartphones.  For $3500, I would rather buy a Mac Studio and a Display and do so much more with it.

    The killer tech at CES was the transparent Micro LED TVs.  Those demos were incredible.

    So you want us to look up the definition of AR, but you can’t be bothered to look up spatial computing? Right.

    https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-spatial-computing-a-basic-explainer
    https://www.coursera.org/articles/what-is-spatial-computing
    https://www.uctoday.com/unified-communications/what-is-spatial-computing-the-basics/
    https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/corporate/what-is-spatial-computing
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_computing

    Sorry, this is not some Apple marketing naming ploy to get people interested in something [not] new. Apple has used the term AR for years, there’s no reason they wouldn’t continue to do so if that’s all they were doing and, they actually still do use “AR”, but their headset is more than just an AR headset, it’s a general purpose computing device that has an intereface that exists in an AR environment.
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  • M3 Ultra Mac Studio rumored to debut in mid-2024 -- without a Mac Pro

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    TSMC customers that include Apple will increase orders for second generation 3nm process wafers

    Not so sure this applies to the M3 Ultra; the next generation 3nm process is not compatible with the first generation, which is why so many other companies have opted to pass on it and wait.

    The A18 will make the switch as will the M4.
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  • Apple's flavor of RCS won't support Google's end-to-end encryption extension

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    lmasanti said:
    Maybe… just maybe… Apple convinced GSM to put E2EE into the standard.
    Then… Apple will be include RCS in its Ones.

    Simple!

    Apple can even ‘help’ in the effort.
    Apple gave its tech to build Qi2, Matter, the new key standard…

    Apple has not adopted RCS for the simple fact that the GSMA group has not developed a standard E2EE for it - they have said so several times. And what the article is alluding to is that Apple is in fact working with them to implement one. Google currently has their own proprietery E2EE extension to RCS that Apple flat out refuses to use, and for good reason. (Apple actually has stated they will not support ANY non-standard extensions to RCS.)

    People also need to understand that end-to-end encryption only means that between you and the other user, the message remains encrypted. That does not mean that same message cannot be sent somewhere else unencrypted. Google is a company that thrives on data, forever looking for new data streams to mine. You can be sure, ANYTHING that passes through their E2EE extension will be harvested and mined.
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