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A luxury airline says it'll hand out Apple Vision Pro to select passengers
1) I'm not sure how else to point out that this is clearly a marketing idea and that my statement of "gain some press" is to attract passengers.MacPro said:
Or attract passengers? Sounds like a great marketing idea to me. I hope every airline does this, and soon, we are flying a first-class round trip to Europe in July; I'd love it if this were the case on our flights.Xed said:This isn't a criticism per se, but this does read like a cheap attempt by this single-plane airline out of the Maldives to gain some press off of the Apple Vision Pro.
2) Why not just buy your own instead of hoping that an airline has them and the correct right lenses and light seal combos? You’d also have to deal with the setup and configuration on the flight and wouldn’t have any personal settings unless you wanted to brave putting in your personal passwords into a device you don’t own. How exactly is entertainment going to be streamed with the device?
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A luxury airline says it'll hand out Apple Vision Pro to select passengers
In your scenario are these people being Zeiss lenses for AVP and also getting fitted for and buying their light seals for AVP, but not buying the full AVP all because they plan to fly on this Maldives airlines enough to make it worthwhile, or are they simply not bringing the the computing part of their personal AVP on their trip, which is the part that stores all their data and has their personal setup already in place for use on the plane and anywhere else they may be residing? I don't think either scenario is something that would ever be done.iOS_Guy80 said:I could foresee passengers bringing their own light seal and lenses, just like people bringing their own headsets on flights.
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A luxury airline says it'll hand out Apple Vision Pro to select passengers
This isn't a criticism per se, but this does read like a cheap attempt by this single-plane airline out of the Maldives to gain some press off of the Apple Vision Pro.
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Unsurprisingly, Mark Zuckerberg believes Meta Quest 3 is the 'better product, period'
It has Android. And, yes, they reportedly have given up on their own OS. That will forever be a problem for anyone trying to compete with Apple, along with the lack vertical integration of HW components.danox said:
Does the Meta Quest have a proper OS under the hood? I don't think it does didn't Meta try to build something and then gave up? Long term this lack of basic hardware/software fundamentals due to simply not having the undercarriage built in from the ground up will be Meta's downfall. Android tablets/ChromeBooks also have the same fatal flaw.FileMakerFeller said:The AVP is a low end disruption device. It does fewer things than the Quest, but it does those things EXTREMELY well. And a lot of the things the AVP does not do right now are clearly going to be available via software updates - the processing power on this thing exceeds that of an iPad Pro, where several such features already exist.
Just like with the iPhone, Apple wants to be sure it has nailed the interaction model and can build on a solid foundation so it can scale to tens (if not hundreds) of millions of users.
As for Zack's comments about the mobile space being 'closed' because of what Apple did... (a) there's a company called Google, you may have heard they have a mobile OS; (b) despite the protestations of several developers there is still money to be made in mobile; (c) a significant number of customers prefer Apple's approach; and (d) Facebook is charging a larger platform fee for the Quest than Apple does for iOS.
https://www.androidcentral.com/new-oculus-quest-os-canceled
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AirPlay-compatible TVs rolling out to hotels starting 'later this spring'
I'm surprised that people even care about in-room TVs at this point. I just use my personal devices.
