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Apple Vision Pro will be the platform for the killer VR app, not Meta

thedba

March 2024

dewme said:

"Even app developers that pretend they want an "open App Store" really just want Apple to run the App Store and iOS platform at its own cost, like a shopping mall that lets vendors set up shop to profit without paying any rent to cover the shared costs of running a marketplace.
Epic Games and the EU's Spotify don't want to build their own platforms or use a free platform like the web. They just don't want to pay Apple for delivering a platform of premium customers and building and maintaining their development tools.
The are, effectively, App Store squatters."

Nailed it.

The battle for Epic and Spotify, isn’t really about getting a free ride on the back of the App Store, no matter how much they would welcome such a ride, if Apple were to drop their surcharge.

It’s more about getting access to the (paying) customer’s data and credit card numbers. Selling data to marketing firms is added revenue to them and marketers know that iOS customers are more likely to pay for their services.

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

thedba

February 2024

slow n easy said:

I'm not sure I would have ever bought an Apple Car. Knowing Apple, they would probably want to get rid of the steering wheel or some crazy shit like that. I would never even consider a car that I couldn't drive myself. I'm sure that Apple would also consider performance to be a low priority, and for me, performance is a high priority. I did consider the 2024 Model 3, but rejected that car because of a lack of instrument cluster screen. I don't want one gigantic iPad like screen. I prefer 2 or 3 different screens and the car I recently bought has a head-up display, which I love. Also, in the Tesla, you can't turn off adaptive cruise control. I tried it in my Integra, and I absolutely hate it. I turned that off along with pretty much all of the other active driving stuff. I don't plan on buying an EV until around 2034.

A lot of assumptions about the Apple Car, that was actually never released and only existed as an internal R&D project.

What's wrong with adaptive cruise control? Don't you want your car to keep a safe distance between you and the car in front while you're speeding down the highway at at least 100 km/h (=60 mph)? Besides there are least three or more settings to most cars (my terms ==> safe, safer and safest).

HomePod with big touchscreen likely isn't coming in 2024

thedba

February 2024

nubus said:

StrangeDays said:

hmurchison said:

Tim Cook

It's time to retire. Go out on top Make the Vision Pro your swan song.

Why on earth? One of the most successful and effective CEOs of the century. (Please don’t confuse the role of a CEO and a product manager, despite Jobs being a product manager. It is not common nor expected.)

Tim Cook was a fantastic COO. What has he added as CEO? He gave us 6 years of butterfly keyboards. He killed the Mac Pro, made it Trash, forgot about it, "offered" wheels for it, and then made sure it couldn't be expanded. He launched iPhone 12 and then nothing happened for generations. This is not innovation. Is he a good CEO? His track record as on global politics is terrible. He has lost in every possible way to the EU-lady (Vestager) while investing everything in communist China and he is now forced to invest again to get away from them. He bet everything on TSMC and when they didn't deliver, we got no upgrades for 2 years. Both the stock and Cook have stalled. Jobs made Apple the globally most valuable company. Cook lost it and gave the crown back to Microsoft (!!).

AVP feels a lot like when Sculley invented the future with Newton and General Magic. It can't continue like this.