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fastasleep said:

Here's a good example product that is probably similar to what Apple is developing:
https://www.kura.tech

I have been sort of reluctant to truly get excited about AR, having tried both Holo Lens and Magic Leap… which both are so incredibly inferior and disappointing. But having seen the videos of the working headset from KURA that you posted, I'm much more positive towards AR. That is looking legit. If the experience on Apple's glasses is gonna be like what Kura is doing, then it could be incredibly interesting.

Apart from cool demos, I can imagine Apple bringing medical, disabilities, navigation, perhaps a whole revised car-play, safety, and perhaps most of all they'll discuss how to keep privacy in check with AR, by simply not using a photographic camera. Perhaps a whole eyes-only way of navigating a lot of advanced functionality, for people with physical disabilities.

Killer app? I hate to say this… but… hands-free iPhone navigation?

Super curious about this. I think cost and control over your own eco-system etc is one thing... but to be honest, I expect their Mac ARM processor not to be on par with Intel, but to surpass it substantially.. like ten-fold or something crazy like that. I think they really want to be able to stand there and say "hey, enough of Intel.. This is why.. Boom! 10x performance"

I can only speculate that for every iPhone/ iPad revision of the cpu, they have probably made a computer processor simultaneously, and getting ready for launching their ARM computers once the ARM processors and operating system has reached a certain point.

For most casual users only using the internet, Apple's apps, it'll be an easy transfer. For just about 100% of professional users relying on certain apps, it'll be tricky, I imagine. Even moving to 64-bit only apps has been forcing a lot of users away from upgrading to Catalina since they're relying on certain software. Can't help but being super curious about this though! Apple's CPU division has proven to be quite amazing after all.

Just thinking out loud, but I could kinda see Apple taking the iOS-to-"aMac" route, rather than MacOS-to-aMac.
Apple's recent tools for bringing iOS apps to MacOS might be experimental testing grounds for taking native iOS/ iPad OS apps into a more traditional computer environment, like a new aMac. Perhaps they will branch out iOS to a laptop format, the way thy branched out iOS to iPad OS - rather than taking the big MacOS and bringing that to the new Arm based computer. This way they could also kinda reboot. Sound cumbersome to pull off.. but I think if the'll be changing to their own ARM processors, they might be totally Apple and think different, think grand, and reboot again. Buuuut... without Steve Jobs at the reigns... sounds perhaps more likely to just port Mac OS 😅

Yeah, The slim keyboards are caught up in the quest for thinness, forgetting ergonomics, and even common sense I'd say. I've had the 2017 MacBook pro since... well... 2017... and it's the first Apple laptop that I can remember that I don't like. I'm using it all the time, but the keyboard simply isn't something that I have bonded with for these years that I've been using it. It's not good. Also the touch bar... I don't find it practical to use.
I've tried the new 16 inch MacBook Pro in stores, and I I like it much better than the previous generation. I think I would grow to love it.

But for a professional writer though.. I would assume you'd have a comfortable writing desk and keyboard. But today, you probably travel around, have meetings, and write in a lot of places, with no practical space for a keyboard... I can see that.

I’m having a hard time believing that the tech required for making an AR headset that is meeting Apple’s vision is mature and ready. It needs to be quite radically improved compared to for instance Magic Leap’s headset. They’re pretty cool for a tech demo, but they’re terrible compared to what we want. Hololens is impressive too in certain aspects, it for a mass market device it’s terrible.
looking forward to following the development though, of course!