Rogue01

Why would you waste your time with reviewing Beta software? It is incomplete, buggy, and everything about it is subject to change.  You made it sound like this is the real deal, yet Apple can change many things before final release.

Smaller fonts do not make anything easier to read or find.  It is a step backwards, not forwards.

Why is it the size of an optical drive?  How big is that NVMe SSD module?  Not exactly portable since the enclosure is so big for a tiny blade SSD.

Apple does ‘coerce’ the user to use iCloud backup by defaulting the feature to ‘on’ and only giving a measly 5GB storage which is not enough space, so iOS constantly prompts the user to buy iCloud.  Many people do fall for it.  Apple did that on purpose.  

Developers are not really interested in making apps for a platform that no one is interested in buying or using.  AR/VR has never been popular or something that consumers feel they need.  3DTV bombed because people did not even want to wear glasses, let alone big heavy goggles.  And consumers are not spending $3500 on a product they don't 'need' in their life.  Apple did not solve any problems with this device.  They are better off just killing it and putting the resources to improving iOS, macOS and iPadOS, the systems that consumers actually use and upgrade over time.

Even watchOS is dead and developers have pretty much abandoned that platform.  The last 5 versions of the watch were uneventful with very little to offer.  I don't even wear my Watch 5 anymore.  Just sits on a charger.  Has some cool fitness apps, but much easier to just look at my phone.

Some may not agree, but that is the reality of it.  Any time I have been at an Apple Store, people are looking at phones and Macs.  They don't even look at the Vision Pro because it is so stupidly expensive, and they don't have a need for it.

Finally an update to AppleTV that is worth getting excited for.  An AV receiver will do a much better job with the sound processing than the AppleTV.  I did not realize the AppleTV wasn't already doing the passthrough over HDMI for a receiver to handle the processing.