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  • Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees

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    dutchlord said:
    $10bn gone, no Apple Car, nothing. Whose head is gonna roll? Insane expensive hobby…..
    $10b over ten years compared to Apple’s revenue, cash flow or bottom line profits (take your pick) is like me buying lunch for a friend once a week for ten years.   It’s not going to adversely affect my overall finances, but I might gain some valuable insights in
    life, investing, technology, etc from our weekly conversations, as Apple no-doubt gained much from its basic research.  
    williamlondondewmeh2pwatto_cobrabyronl

  • What's the value of Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing?

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    When smartphones incorporated calculators and calendars and alarm clocks these app versions didn’t come to exist alongside the physical products.  They obviated the need for the physical products.   It became absurd to own a physical alarm clock that could break or fall on the floor.  Instead, these devices BECAME virtual devices.  But the above are still essentially information devices.  

    With Apple Vision Pro we enter an era of replacing physical devices that require physical interaction.  A DJ booth requires the muscle memory of a long acquired skill.  A surgical robot surgeon interface requires the same.  Vision Pro’s advanced spatial accuracy and scalability of the human physical interaction interface allows makers of what are now interactive physical products to recreate these products as apps.  No longer would you want a physical DJ booth that requires transportation and can break.  This will exist only as an app.   Same for other physical interfaces that require dexterity and skill to operate.   

    Some of us never bought an alarm clock or calculator.  Future generations will never buy a physical surgical robot front end or musical instrument.  But we may interact with these devices using the same dexterity and motions we learned on their outgoing physical forms.  


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  • Phil Schiller warns third-party app stores are a risk to iPhone users

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    Xed said:
    Tower72 said:
    As someone that ping ponged between iPhone and Androids since 2007 (currently with iPhone for a few phone models now and 15PM), let the consumer do what they want BUT add a disclaimer. If they install a 3rd party app outside of the App store and their phone goes all wonky on the software side,  Apple will NOT fix it and the consumer has to accept responsibility .  I have rooted all of my Android phones and jailbroke my old iPhones in the past, knowing full well that my actions could have consequences and I could install something that I probably should not.  I dig the walled garden approach Apple has but honestly, I do miss the freedom I had with Android devices sometimes and if my devices ever went nuts, I simply restored from a backup and lesson learned. 

    Still though I think this is a scare tactic, as installing things from outside of the official app store, will cut into Apples profits. 
    Except this generation has been taught that nothing is their fault and there’s always someone else to blame. 
    OK Boomer.  It sounds like you're denying all the issues the older generations caused that the younger generations are constantly fighting to resolve. Climate change, housing market, Roe v Wade, social security, immigration, Citizens United v. FEC, and on and on and on.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/boomer-greed-ruined-economy-gen-z-millennials-labor-shortage-inflation-2023-3?op=1
    It’s not a generational thing, it exists at all ages.  Sam Bankman Fried is a pretty good example of not-a-boomer.  
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  • Echoes of launches past: Tim Cook likens Apple Vision Pro to iPhone launch

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    MplsP said:
    Xed said:
    I don't see that. I'd liken it to being more like the original Mac launch since it's very expensive with most people still wondering what they could possibly do with this bleeding edge tech. 
    agreed. The iPhone was the right product coming into a waiting hole in the market. Virtual reality and augmented. Reality is still trying to find its place and a use and such Apple has much more of an uphill climb with Vision Pro. By all accounts it’s an extraordinarily well-designed product. I just hope there’s a market for it.
    Agree, with one caveat.  The iPhone came into a nascent Apple ecosystem with tens of millions of Mac users and maybe 150-200 million iPod users.  Vision Pro is joining a world with 2.2 billion active Apple devices and a gigantic library of existing apps.  Its challenge to reach critical mass is eased a bit by this fact.  Countered, of course, by its far more narrow scope of use cases and its physical challenge of being a relatively bulky headset.  But the installed base of Apple devices and the wide variety of existing apps will help.  
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  • Xreal's attempts to rival Apple Vision Pro boosted with $60 million of new funding

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    I kinda trust that when the glasses form factor is viable it’ll be Apple that does it right, bringing the Apple ecosystem of apps and continuity along for the ride.  But go ahead and spend, other companies, to try to lead the way; in the end it won’t much matter.  
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