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9secondkox2 said:

anantksundaram said:

This is not good. 

Overall, it reeks of being a rushed product,  notwithstanding the very good initial reviews. 

It was clearly rushed. Reports of apple internal staff not being sold on it was a big red flag. 

The reveal wasn’t compelling and now that it’s in the wild, it’s pretty much another headset in the market. But with better hardware. It has its limitations and flaws, but it’s a good headset overrall. 

I think if Microsoft launched it or meta came out with it and called it the quest ultra or whatever, it would be reviewed well but the price would be laughed at and it wouldn’t sell outside of a tiny group. Only apple can command the really big dollars with something like this, niche or no. 

Decent effort? Sure. Rushed product? 100%

I think apple leadership is at this weird place where they feel like it’s run by a committee instead of a clear focused vision. Too many cooks in the kitchen nowadays. 

Old apple used to allow the naysayers to go around… naysaying. Then at Macworld or whatever, they’d drop the nuke and laugh all the way to the bank. 

Nowadays they feel like they have address misperceptions, control “the narrative,” and get ahead of bad publicity. 

The Vision Pro seems to be a reaction to “hey guys meta is going to change the whole digital landscape. We neees to do it better. Oh and HoloLens is getting a pro market. This vice thing is really up there with the specs so we need to beat that. But let’s not use any entrenched vocabulary. We want to build a better headset but avoid comparisons with headsets ok guys? This is not a headset from now on ok?” 

Apple shouldn’t have released a headset. They should have learned from the process and kept secretly getting it into glasses/sunglasses, or I don’t know, something really out there like bio powered contacts. Something truly magical. Not… a headset. 

But here we are. It’s ok. Nothing groundbreaking. But it’s good for what it is. 

It’s not a bad product. It’s just not “apple.” Would be better if they launched experimental stuff under a sub brand like Beats or something. Actually, I think that’s a viable solution for current apple with stuff like this. 

Apple used to be the adult in the room amongst the chaotic wannabe fad products, the doomsayers, the two-day trendsetters, etc. then when the children were done spazzing out and running around the room, patient apple steps in, laughs “silly little children,” and shows them why they had nothing to worry about, reveals the thing they never knew they always needed/wanted, and paves the way forward for the entire industry. 

Whoever the next ceo is, I hope it’s a product guy, but someone with the supply chain understanding of cook or at least humble enough to have an equally humble and trusted “right hand man” working with him who is a supply chain/managerial genius to see those product done justice. 

Cook has done wonders in building decent sized apple into megaladon apple. But it’s looking a little shaky on the product front with only the tubby iMac and dissing the big iMac peoole for the Mac Studio which also disses the max pro, then the Vision Pro, the continual lag of Apple TV +, the fiasco that was Apple Music for a while, etc. the watch I think was actually a big hit. I don’t think many of us realized that when it launched and the initial reliance on iPhone was a pain but it’s kind of a must have now (especially once the glucose situation gets sorted - FDA recent politics notwithstanding). If and when the apple car materializes, that will be a very big deal also-but it will be a substantial energy investment as apple can’t just develop the car and ride it out. They’ll need to continue to improve, release new hardware and software features, models, etc. so cook hasn’t been without product vision. It’s just not his major forte.

But a new/old guy with product line as his gift would be most welcome. Get things back to making sense and pushing the envelope - only to open when it’s clearly ready. 

ex-cdn said:

Entilzha said:

The title of this article should be “Senator’s JUSTIFIED paranoia” fyi. 

+1. Just search for "EFF + Senator + Wyden" or read his Wikipedia page. 

I understand the author may be unaware of US politics, but the tone of the piece is exactly the opposite of what we need today to fight disinformation.