daveinpublic

I love the direction Apple is going with this.

I think they've realized they have an open lane to the finish line here, a set of features they can release with zero competition. Because they have the only business model that allows this type of innovation.

But, still, I think Google and others will follow. Just more slowly and cautiously. And that's the reason I love it, it's going to make privacy more asked about, a more main stream and desirable feature. Companies will start competing on privacy, not wanting to be the most egregious offender. And I do think you'll see die hard Android geeks switching over, noticeable amounts.

In the past, it almost seemed like companies were competing to have the most violations of privacy. Facebook is obviously a troll in this area, but what really upset me was how they bought Oculus and then recently required a FB login to even use your Oculus headset. They did this around the time they started banning FB users for sharing any Hunter Biden stories. And at the same time, they started saying that you have to have a FB login in 'good standing' to use your Oculus headsets. What's the worst thing that could happen, if my social media site has complete control over whether I use my entire OS or not?

Beats said:

What a mess. It calibrates according to the user looking in a direction for a certain amount of time?

What if user is talking to someone? What if they’re looking down at their iPhone? What if they’re in the kitchen?.....

If the user is sitting off to the side and not directly in front of the TV will the objects follow their assumed panning? (Admittedly this would be cool).
For example you’re on the left side of the room. Batmobile speeds off to the left in the movie. It sounds like you’re gonna be ran over. 

I’ve wanted a TrueDepth camera array for Apple TV for years pre-Spatial Audio and the lost benefits are compounding. The camera would have solved these problems.

I think it will work fine.

I do think Facebook provides a valuable way for small business to get in front of the faces of the right people. I work for a company that uses Facebook ads to get leads. And I have a family member who uses ads for her small business, it allows her to get in front of the right people, as well.

But, Zuckerburg needs to suck it up. People advertised before Facebook was a thing. It was a little more of a blunt process, but it worked fine. It's just a dialogue box asking if you're ok with apps tracking you. How can you be against that? What's wrong with giving people a simple choice? Is it worth spending millions of dollars trying to bash Apple and spread terrible narratives about them? Because they give people a choice of whether to share data?

The reason Apple is doing this now... I personally think, Apple is doing this because it's right for their users. And I think there are other reasons, on top of that. I think Facebook is dipping their toes in the water of making their own operating system with Oculus. I think they've awoken the dragon by working on a pair of AR glasses, which I think Apple is doing, too. Apple has a little experience with their developers creating their own operating systems. It always seems like a small deal at first.. Microsoft was just another dev. Google was just a search engine and powered a YouTube app. But, I think they learned their lesson. And I don't think they want to personally fund their entire AR division. So, it's about taking some of the wind out of their sales.

Also, I think Apple is planning on selling high level data. Not giving companies access to your name or address, or any personal info about you, but info about anonymous users. Like... somebody wants to get their product in front of X people with X characteristics. Apple gives them some ability to do that. They already do this a little with the App Store. This is just something I've heard. I don't know much about it. But, by cutting off Facebook, they're also making their own data offering more attractive. Maybe making it a pay to access sort of a thing.

Not sure, but either way, this is a good thing for users. Whatever Apple's motivations are, purely money or purely altruistic, I don't want Facebook to have any more of my data. I don't like that they can be installed on my phone once, and then buy more info about me through their advertiser network and connect it to my name... making it far more valuable. I don't like that any app can do that. I don't think many people even realize the apps on their phone can do that. And getting rid of that functionality is all we need to have some privacy again.

Sounds great, but it didn't look great.

Seems like the only difference will be the massive file sizes you'll be working with, as the finished product still looked like it was filmed by a phone.

I had the same feeling when I watched the Sony A7sIII announcement. All the specs made me think this was going to blow everything out of the water, then they rolled the footage and it looked like every other DSLR. Apple may be coming up against the physical limits of shooting with lenses and image processors that small.

"No, you can not, I repeat, CAN NOT get Apple Music by itself anymore. It's been CANCELLED."

jk