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  • Apple Vision Pro with M5 may arrive before the end of 2025

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    There are a few important reasons why they would upgrade to M5. 

    The current M2 is definitely being pushed to its limits when mixing multitasking with environments for example, leaving little headroom for eg. Apple Intelligence or AIV editing. 

    The AVP will also need to have a stronger chip than the AV Air which will likely come out before a new design iteration of the AVP. 

    But above all, the AVP lives and dies by being the best XR headset around. With Google/Samsung’s new headset and Meta’s rumoured headset, Apple needs to have a chip that’s better than any competitor. 
    thtSmittyW

  • Future Apple Vision Pro rumored to be directly connected to a Mac

    sloaahsloaah
    $799-999 could work. Mac Studio pricing does not. 

    This sort of pricing is a pipe dream. There’s no way that Apple will abandon internal computing and make this just a monitor that you wear on your head. 


    The vision of “spatial computing” is fundamentally sound; inevitably we will be interacting with our computing devices in a spatial environment. It’s just a matter of when it comes to maturity… whether it’s in the next five years or in the next fifteen. Probably it’s the latter.


    For that spatial computing paradigm, the cost of a laptop makes a lot of sense. I can imagine that Apple sees in the long run users owning iPhones, iPads and Visions - whilst the Mac becomes an increasingly niche product.

    neoncatwatto_cobra

  • Apple's former hardware chief and current Apple Vision Pro lead is retiring

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    JamesCude said:
    The positive spin at the end of this article is kind of embarrassing. AVP is obviously a huge flop to anyone not immersed in the Kool Aid. Though of course, Apple will be just fine with its many other successful products.
    From a sales perspective it’s been pretty much bang on target with strong international demand, contrary to lots of initial negative reports. Latest IDC reports say that Q2 sales have risen by over 11% vs Q1, and should be on target for roughly 400-500k units this year. Prior to launch, supply reports said that production for year one was limited to roughly 400k units due to Sony’s production capacity limits for the displays. 

    If anything it’s just a reminder of how crazily accurate Apple is at anticipating consumer response. No other manufacturer can achieve sales within a 10-20% margin of their original estimates when it’s a completely new device. 

    Personally, my own view is Vision Pro sadly hasn’t received the developer attention that it needs, but I can’t see how anybody would call it a huge flop on the metrics which actually matter to Apple (sales). 
    mattinozdewmewilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple Intelligence wasn't trained on stolen YouTube videos

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    wdowell said:
    macca said:
    Correction England doesn’t have a Parliament. Its the British Parliament
    It’s not British Parliament - it’s UK parliament - (Northern Ireland..  ) https://www.parliament.uk/
    The majority of Northern Irish (ie non-republicans) would describe themselves as British, so colloquially it’s fine to say the British Parliament. After all, the island of Ireland is part of the British Isles. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • iPhone 16 Pro rumored to get hugely better ultra-wide sensor & optical zoom

    sloaahsloaah
    The fixation on the 120mm equivalent is a bit of a shame. 77mm is a much more useful lens - it sits within the classic 70-90mm range of portrait lenses. 
    muthuk_vanalingamRonnyDaddywatto_cobra