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rotateleftbyte said:

This is what it all about
However, Google intends to use its own data centers to remotely process and render graphics that are then to be transmitted into the headset.

This data will be used for Google's main business... selling your data and sending you ads for all sorts of bovine excrement that you don't want, can't afford etc etc. They'll have you by the short and curlies as in a captive audience. This must be their holy grail, a captive audience. 
The next step will be google brain implants, an easy way to get ads to the inner part of the brain. 

“You seem to have dropped that screw behind the chair. Can order you a new one? Look down to proceed.”

payeco said:

entropys said:

Nice, now to wait for the au version.

There’s really no reason you would need to wait. The plug isn’t built in to the charger. The charger itself
supports worldwide voltages. It’s powered through an included cable with a two prong IEC C-7 connector on the end that goes into the charger. So you would just need your own cable with Australian plugs on one end and IEC C-7 on the other end, which you could get from dozens of online sources, and this would work fine there. 

darkvader said:

maltz said:

So the suit boils down to the fact that the screen is made of glass, and broken glass is sharp?  Good luck with that...

No, that's not what it boils down to at all.

It boils down to the design of the watch not allowing for an expanded battery (which can be anticipated to happen with a certain percentage of batteries of the type used in the Apple Watch) and therefore the battery is breaking the glass and creating a potentially hazardous condition.

I suspect they'll have a hard time if they can't prove actual damages, meaning if the glass didn't cut somebody there isn't an injury.

It absolutely IS a defective design.  If the battery expansion (which, again, can be anticipated) causes damage to the device, it's a problem.  And it's a problem that's affected every portable Apple product for years.  Apple really should have to pay for any damages caused by battery swelling when they designed the product in such a way that a swollen battery can damage other hardware.  There's an easy fix Apple could have implemented - batteries that are easily changeable by the user could implement a locking catch system that would automatically unlock and release if a battery swells enough that it could cause damage.  There's no reason for Apple not to do that other than their idiotic thin fetish.

MacsWithPenguins said:

There have been a lot of open source projects maintained by Apple, for well over a decade and even longer than that (I just don’t have a timeline in my head to refer to right now). The fact they are promoting this now is promising, though. 

It could mean they are going to add something significant to the list of projects which weren’t published in the open previously. Perhaps it will be related to ARKit to try increase interest in their upcoming big push for AR, or when pigs starts flying: releasing a portable GUI toolkit to make it easier to build Swift GUI apps for Windows 11 on ARM64 and Linux aarch64 (something dull-looking and simplistic that doesn’t compete with the powerful AppKit and SwiftUI frameworks).

xbit said:

Tim Sweeney, who made his fortune ripping off the work of an indie developer and who continues to rip off the work of indie developers, has no place in a true App Fairness Coalition. The man is a hypocrite.