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9secondkox2 said:

Peleton is a phenomenal company. Their products (and services) are top-notch. 

I had read so many derogatory things. on forums about them by people who don't own their products and then one day I was in an AZ mall looking at the Lucid Air. As I walked out, I saw a Pelotonn store. Didn't even know they had retail stores. As a fitness buff, I decided "Why not?' and went inside just for the fun. of it. After trying out the bike and the. treadmill, I was impressed. The manager answered my questions with aplomb and it was quite shocking to see the quality of services on offer. Far better than the Apple or Nike offerings.

After that, I decided to always judge for myself and not what some agenda-riddled post, article, or whatever had to say. It's a lot like what Apple has to endure actually. How many doomsday news articles, TV shows, etc. have Apple had to put up with? I've lost count. Same with Peloton. 

They are the Apple of the fitness world, both in quality of product and service as well as with unjust criticism. Any company trying to succeed will get knocked down, but the get back up, learn from it, and get better. I think this describes not only Apple but Peloton as well. 

I never even heard of Peleton until some commercial came along where a beautiful woman was gifted a Peleton. Then the backlash-"oh my gosh! how dare they make it seem like that lady needs to exercise! How dare she be in that commercial, body shaming other women!" And on it went. As if exercise was a bad thing or inspiring others. to get healthy was morally repugnant. LOL

Back in the day, I was a WinTel guy, building computers for myself and everyone else and laughing at Apple all the way. I'd worked for HP, ATT, and Verizon, and thought Apple was crap. A joke. Then one day a friend of mine who was a pastor challenged me on a project, saying he wasn't even a "tech guy" and he could do what I was doing in half the time thanks to Apple's OS and software. In the end, my entire team was shocked. So. I bought a Mac to test. Fell in love with the thing and ditched the WinTel world, only coming back occasionally when a friend or client desperately needed it. If I had stayed listening to the news or tech pundits, I would never have discovered this vastly superior way of computing life.  

I feel it's the same with Peleton. Everywhere I turn, I hear something negative, but it's not substantiated. It's always, "Well, they had this disaster years ago" or "They're just the devil" or something along those lines. As if no other great company has had disasters or values that don't align with someone else. Heck, some of Apple's values boggle my mind, but it doesn't detract that they're the best at what they do. 

When I first saw this. article's headline, I thought "Bummer. Peleton is removing Apple Watch functionality. Then I saw that they. just using theirs. own Apple Watch app to overcome Apple's limitation on not beignn able to do mixed-focus workouts. It's fine. It's still on the Watch. It's just more theirs now and more capable than what Apple was offering. That's fine. Better even. As I do strength training and cardio together, it's baffling that Apple hasn't recognized this limitation and upgraded their app. 

Peleton is stepping up where Apple is uncharacteristically lagging with the Fitness+ limitations. 

This may end up a. double win for Peleton actually, considering the rumors that Apple wants to start selling exercise hardware. Peleton gets the added benefit of not feeding a competitor free R&D info. Win for customers and win for Peleton. Everything is great in the end.  

mike1 said:

Is this the last gasp of a dying company?

Xed said:

MS has HoloLens 2 and plenty of healthcare partners, but I don't they sought out MS or if MS sought them out to try to force-legitimize the platform.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/industry-healthcare

What I haven't seen —and maybe I simply missed it — is anyone looking at Meta Quest in the sam way.

It'll take many years, but this will get integrated into many industries  in ways that I don't think we even guess at this point.

Because many doctors and dentists own Macs, iPhones, Apple Watches and iPads, the Apple Vision is just another Apple tool, but Apples integrated ecosystems across devices are way ahead and leave most of the competition in the dust. The Apple Vision M3/R2 and M4/R3 versions are going to be absolute monsters. Refining the software for Apple will be the easy part.

MS has put HoloLens on life support/mothballed and Google, Meta data vacuuming ways present privacy problems and leaves them out in the cold they are utterly unfit for hospital settings/medical office/research facility settings.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1akhj97/surgicalar_app_on_vision_pro_looks_incredible/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BV9Xy6L_rlM  Some people in the medical profession see this, Apple or a third party company is going to expand the functionally......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8R2T1cNP-k.   Molina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ7flQhzvnQ.  Fibi third year math major

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yO9lWrke9oE  GoodNotes, and Notability future looks brighter when they release their programs on the Apple Vision (a Medical student taking notes on a iPad Pro).

Using a Apple Vision in this way records/information in hospital setting/medical office/research facility also means Apple is going to need to get into servers too.