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miiwtwo said:

AppleInsider said:

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Please try not to quote the entire original article - Jason

so basically you try to convince that it's price is correct, WRONG, doesnt matter, the rest we can wait until 2025, i'm sure that Apple gonna release the "base model" and maybe drop the actual Pro,

AppleZulu said:

sflocal said:

As a developer myself, the 30% fee is chump change when you consider what us developers had to do prior to the App Store, and prior to the modern smartphone.  We had to advertise our software, handle payments, and provide packaged software products, etc... it was hard.  For Apple, its bread-and-butter are the customers that buy its products and works hard to keep those customers coming back for more.  Customers are where Apple keeps its focus on, NOT developers.  Developers have the privilege of accessing hundreds of millions of those hard-earned customers on a platform that is provided, maintained, and improved upon BY Apple.  Developers nowadays have it easy, yet a vocal few demand that Apple provide that entire infrastructure for free.  Screw you.  You're an embarrassment to us legit developers.  

Those losers essentially want the iPhone to be like Android.  Good luck with that.

This right here is it. Only sixteen years ago, the software market was a lot harder for developers and likewise, a lot harder for customers. Because of the reasons above, it was usually expensive, and particularly when considering buying a program from a small, unfamiliar-to-you developer had a real downside risk. Would it be compatible with your hardware, or your operating system, or your other applications, etc.? Would the UI be confusing? If ordered from the software vendor, could you trust them with your credit card info? Software was generally expensive, particularly for small developers, because they couldn't rely on volume sales, so recovering up-front costs for printing, packaging, payment systems etc, had to be priced in, which immediately decreases the number of customers who will take a risk and try something new.

By eliminating complications and costs for developers, the App Store presented a marketplace with a lot of active customers, and a low per-unit distribution cost, resulting in inexpensively priced apps that are easy and low-risk for customers to download and try. It's only 99¢ and I pay for it through Apple, who already have my payment info? There's no risk it'll crash my phone? I can completely delete it if I don't like it? Okay! I'll try that! That's not how any of this worked only sixteen years ago. Now, there's a multi-billion-dollar market built just on that. 

wood1208 said:

I am sure they have good reason/intention finding terrorists hidden in our community pretending like good American citizen but planning for future terrorists attack. Prevention is better than cure.

dewme said:

designr said:

I'm going to be totally honest here: Using this thing for "productivity" in my work (application development) looks like a nightmare scenario. If I want/need more space, I'll get a second monitor.

As for entertainment? I'll watch movies on my large screen with my wife—and, occasionally, my extended family—by my side thank you very much.

VR? Eh.

There's an awful lot of wishful thinking surrounding this thing. 

I probably have a similar set of pragmatic nuts & bolts level of concerns. It may sound trivial, but what’s the typing experience on the Vision Pro? I’m kind of a lousy touch typist. I don’t need to crank out 90 wpm but the typing experience still has to be comfortable and intuitive even if I have to look at the keyboard occasionally. The keyboard and mouse coordination is totally ingrained in my brain and something I don’t even think about. Things like text selection, cut, copy, paste, drag and drop, reformatting text, accessing context (right click) menus, shortcut keys, etc. I know you can use a physical keyboard with the Vision Pro, but what will this really feel like? I’ve never sat at a keyboard while wearing a helmet or face mask.

I can definitely see where having a near infinite palette, design surface, and desk space would be helpful for software design and debugging, especially if you don’t have luxury of being able to attach a 2nd or 3rd monitor to your workstation setup or you’re traveling or working away from the office, say at a job site. I’ve frequently used the iPad Pro as a 2nd monitor while traveling with a notebook computer.

I see a lot of conjecture about possible medical applications using future Vision Pro. These are all interesting ideas and I have little doubt that we’ll see applications for similar technology to Vision Pro in the medium to longer range timeframe. I just wouldn’t bet on Apple being the driving force behind the more elaborate scenarios. If you believe that Apple is struggling to build a car in the timeframes we are accustomed to seeing consumer products hit the market, the prospect of Apple taking on the type of challenges that domain immersed medical systems providers like Siemens, GE, Medtronic, etc., are currently doing seems far more daunting.

I think there are nearer term, even current, applications that the Vision Pro could serve in patient healthcare. For example, letting people who are undergoing dialysis, chemotherapy, and other lengthy and debilitating therapies may find some level of relief by being immersed in the kinds of experiences the Vision Pro offers. 

13485 said:

twolf2919 said:

....Developers, like Apple, are in it for the money - they will only develop for a platform if they can see a potential profit.  Such potential does not really exist when the total addressable market is less than a million for the foreseeable future.  Maybe a few large development shops will bite because they can afford to take the long view, but not the little developers that have made iPhone such a success.

I'm not sure where you came up with the claim that the total addressable market is "less than a million". Based on what? Apple may see the potential entirely differently than you.