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entropys said:

If buying this kind of workstation, why on earth would I be interested in a comparison with a four year old machine? I would be comparing it with what else is currently in the market to perform similar tasks.

Regardless, this machine is an expensive, crippled embarrassment, not able to do anything a Mac Studio can do at much lower cost. 

It is not the Mac Pro anyone should be looking for.

exceptionhandler said:

I’ve never understood the desire for widgets.  I’ve tried using some form of them since the old dashboard back in snow leopard to ones currently in iOS (I’d rather have more room for apps on my screen than have a widget take up that space). The utility they add just seems too cumbersome, and at which point why not just open the app? Just my personal experience/opinion; I’m sure there are many who swear by them. 

I guess somewhat related are the “complications” on Apple Watch.  I do use some of those on my watch faces.

id be curious to hear about people’s use cases and workflows around widgets.

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danox said:

This is another Apple buying opportunity, just that simple. Most people are still in the dark about the Apple Vision Pro……. But Zuckerberg isn’t he is slowly coming to the realization that the Quest is over.

I don’t think Quest is over. Just as cheap Android phones and cheap Windows PCs have a place in the market, so will cheap VR solutions.

Neither the Meta nor Quest branding will be what buyers look to for state of the art VR solutions, and Meta will now (likely) never be able to corner the market ifor high-end  VR or AR, bo matter how much money they throw at it while Apple gets a healthy profit from their investment and likely the only company making it a viable product, which will just further more advancements for Apple.

if anything, Quest will get a sales boost BECAUSE of Apple Vision Pro as it puts a spotlight on VR. The same happened to the Blackberry. It was clearly the beginning of the end for them, but they had they had their best sales AFTER the iPhone was on the market. Partially because they were pushing their clearly inferior products to carriers almost nothing, but also because it put a spotlight on the smartphone market.

 It’s really over see attached the Quest is dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjoE-6LdViQ

Why don't you explain why you don't think Meta's sales have now dissolved into nothing instead of pushing a YouTuber's video without any explanation. I went into detail as to why I believe that Meta will now sell more Quest units than every before for a certain timeframe as a result of Apple Vision Pro, but you're saying they will no longer have sales or dissolve that entire department and product category, I guess.

The person in charge of the software (and the entire software team) for the Quest, look at the video the UI interface is complete crap, what do you think gonna happen next monday or maybe this weekend? Zuckerberg‘s gonna hug him and say nice job dudes thumbs up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Wc0cEQs_M    7:22 into the video……a Scott Forstall moment reminiscent of Apple Maps, actually worse.

Again, why do you believe that Quest will not have any sales and/or why Meta will decide to kill their Quest development and scrap all the units they're trying to sell?

Pointing out that they are a sub-par VR experience isn't proof that they are "dead", as you put it. As previously mentioned, Blackberrys sold more units after the iPhone was announced and for several years after its release BECAUSE the iPhone gave the nice category gravitas. I expect Apple Vision Pro to do the same for Meta Quest and none of that is me claiming that Meta Quest is a good experience, but I don't think Android or Windows is either, but that's another discussion about what will fill in the non-Apple path Apple makes. It may even be a revamped Meta device that takes up the mantel as the cheaper, other option.

What is there to prove the UI and the its performance or lack of says everything, no different than a Windows phone, a BlackBerry or a Nokia phone once the iPhone came out, all of them were dead men walking, which is why Google upon seeing the first iPhone changed their whole strategy, 180°.