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  • HomePod with big touchscreen likely isn't coming in 2024

    thedbathedba
    nubus 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.

    I wouldn't say that.
    - Apple Watch - 2015;
    - Apple Music - 2015;
    - AirPods - 2016;
    - Apple Silicon Macs and transition to - 2020;
    - Vision Pro - 2024;
    Have all been minor achievements

    Add to that the entirety of Apple services (Music, TV, News, iCloud etc.)  which are still growing.

    The rest of your rant seems very personal: Politics ???, EU???, China???, TSMC not delivering???
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple Vision Pro Travel Case review: too-expensive precision cushioning

    thedbathedba
    Going 3rd party is probably the way to go on this. 
    I'm sure these will hit Amazon soon. 
    grandact73

  • Unsurprisingly, Mark Zuckerberg believes Meta Quest 3 is the 'better product, period'

    thedbathedba
    Those are some serious Mike Lazaridis/Steve Ballmer vibes emanating from Zuck.
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  • Apple Vision Pro has finally arrived

    thedbathedba
    Apple Vision Pro is available now, starting at $3,499. Pre-orders sold out within minutes, though, and Apple was believed to have only made a few units, compared to a typical iPhone launch. 

    Well no kidding.
    Can you name another product in Apple’s lineup that comes even close to making as many units available, at launch, as the iPhone?

    I’ve seen reviews from Joanna Stern, John Gruber, MKBHD and iJustine and this looks like a very compelling 1.0 product.
    Not sure that many people will bite at that entry price, but enough will, to keep development going and in 2-3 years give us version 2.0.

    Oh and the competition are warming up their copy machines.
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  • AirPods' 2024 refresh could include two Gen 4 models, AirPods Max update

    thedbathedba
    StrangeDays said:
    thedba said:
    If the only upgrade awaiting the Airpods max is USBC and additional colors, then muted isn’t the adjective I’d use.
    Grossly underwhelming would be more like it.
    What do you want them to do for you, besides play audio? Should they have a new shape too? Maybe triangles? Triangles are new. Should we do triangles?
    Really? Nothing you can think of?
    Let’s see 
    1) A way of turning them off or putting them in low power mode without having to put them in the bra case.
    2) A better/actual carrying case
    3) Longer battery life 
    4) A passive wired mode ie. they keep on working when the battery’s dead
    5) Lossless playback

    To name a few. 
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