Stabitha_Christie

9secondkox2 said:

Alex_V said:

9secondkox2 said:

As long as there is beef, there is leather. Beef isn’t going anywhere, so better to utilize what would otherwise go to waste. It’s more efficient use of resources, more respectful to the sacrifice of the animal, and results in better quality products. 

I see that there is an industry-sponsored website that argues your exact point. What a coincidence! The website wants to convince us not to trouble our little heads on the subject leather. Still, leather is not merely a by-product of the beef industry. It is an integral part of the business. A significant proportion of the world’s population is vegetarian. I live in a place that is substantially vegetarian with a significant proportion of veganism (no dairy, no eggs etc.). Every bakery has eggless items on sale here. Vegetarianism and veganism are on the rise in the West, driven by health, environmental, and ethical reasons. On the other hand, meat eating increases as populations get better off, notably in China.

interesting. Didn’t know. But it’s nice to have my point reiterated. 

So what if an industry touts the benefits of their products - especially used in an efficient, respectful manner that is actually desireable. 

You sound like the EU: “something making sense must be wrong.” LOL

and leather is definitely a byproduct. 

That meat isn’t going to waste. Come on msn. Yet harder. 

Beef is what’s for dinner. And there is enough of it consumed in America alone to provide leather the world over. Add china, Russia, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, and on and on. Shame to let that much leather go to waste for no reason. 

danox said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

opplo said:

The problem with Apple and AI is that they will not take advantage of it the way they should. They are still in this 'Siri mindset' where it's a cute thing to ask a question and get an answer or have AI do some nifty little task on an iPhone.

Apple should really be taking inspiration from something like Devin, and training models to build apps end-to-end in Xcode with no coding knowledge, songs in Logic with no music production knowledge, films in Final Cut Pro X with no filmmaking knowledge.

They are squandering their true advantage (their legacy of powerful, feature-packed professional desktop software that could now be driven by AI if Apple were not so clueless).

Hey Apple: train your AI to use the mouse and cursor on macOS, and on how to use your operating system and entire suite of apps. Either that, or prepare to lose hundreds of billions in value as the tech world passes you by. WAKE UP

Is this satire? Please tell me it’s satire. 

Apple has been incorporating AI across their products for the better part of a decade. That you think AI is limited to Siri means you either haven’t been paying attention or don’t really know what AI is. 

You also don’t appear to use some of the apps you are talking about. Logic/Garageband introduce AI musicians awhile along. Final Cut Pro/iMove have AI features and iMovie  will make a move based on whatever clips you throw into it. You don’t need to know anything about editing. That kind of feature doesn’t make sense for FCP. FCP is for people that want/need more control over editing. iMovie is the tool for people that are new to it. 

Apple approach to AI will be/is subtle and very effective Microsoft, Google, Meta, Qualcomm and Samsung will be the equivalent to the hot air of the Intel inside ad campaign......

How much money has EPIC lost by taking this stand against the App Store? I think they were one of the most popular games on iOS before they broke TOS. 

9secondkox2 said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

9secondkox2 said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

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. 

So it’s 100% rushed but you don’t actually point out anything that makes it rushed. You just seemed to think that if you repeat it enough you will be correct. 

The only thing we can gather from the rest of  your comment is you are relatively to Apple and believe some myth you have heard about how Apple ran under Steve Jobs. 

Jobs completely created the culture of controlling the narrative and very much had things to say to and about naysayers. If anything Apple is more tightlipped now about critics than it was then. 

The one thing that has been consistent is there is always some knob that thinks they know what Apple should and shouldn’t do and really doesn’t know what they are taking about. For a long time it was Ric Ford of Macintouch fame, then there Bill Palmer and his various website with screeds about how gerrijg rid of the eMac and keeping the Mac mini was going to cause the company to fail … now we got you. 

I've said enough in previous posts and YouTube is full of the info you need.  But you prefer to bury your head in the sand - or in Apple speak, power on your reality. distortion. field.

And no Jobs didn't control the narrative. Sure, he made some stupid comments about holding the iPhone 4. wrong, etc., but that was the rare miss. And he. didn't get. out. in. front of rumors at every. opportunity. Instead, he waited until reveal/launch day, made some jokes about rumors floating. around, revealed a compelling. product, and let that be. the. punctuation mark, cementing why. the pundits were stupid. big difference from running around publicly addressing hearsay every day. When Jobs had to address something, he. either did it with a new product, or it was done behind the scenes with legal takedowns, etc. None of this knee-jerk stuff we get now.  

The problem with your pointing to your other comments is that you often get things wrong. Not your opinions but things that are objectively verifiable. For example you went on and on about how Apple having to do a 30 minute tutorial of the product when purchasing it was proof of how bad it was. The problem with that being that Apple wasn't doing a 30 minute tutorial as parting of the buying process. They were offering 30 minute walk throughs to people that were interested in the product and wanted to see how it worked. So, I'm going to pass on reading your comment history since what you get wrong, don't know or misunderstand could fill a very large hole. I have watched some YouTube reviews, MKBHD in particular and he has said nothing about the product being rushed. Mostly though I am going on my own experience. I have one and I have used it daily since the day after it was released. I feel like first hand experience is going to be far more informed. 

The Vision Pro is a fist generation production and has the limitations of a first generation product. Just like the original iPhone (Couldn't arrange icons, didn't have cut and paste, no GPS, limited to EDGE, poor battery life, chunky, no apps not even web apps, the awful handling of MSS via weblink), just like the original iPad (heavy, a screen that was unusable in daylight), just like the original watch (slow, no GPS, no cellular, no apps), Mac OS X 1.0 (Apple wouldn't  even install this on new computers, that happened with 10.1)  None of these things were flawless but their flaws didn't indicate they were rushed. The Vision Pro and its limitations are most reminiscent of the original iPhone. The hardware is what it is is but there is plenty of room to work on buffing out the software and I'd impinge Apple will do this quickly like the did with what was then called iPhoneOS. 

If you want to look at truly disastrous products from Apple then check out the TAM or Powerbook 5300. And if you want to see a complete train wreck of a product that was released by modern day Apple, look no further than Mobile Me. That one led Steve to say something like  "...why would you trust the company that brought you Mobile Me?

Apple under Steve very much had it's moments of chasing the market and following trends. iTunes was Apple playing catch up to what others were doing, Ping was Apple's lame attempt to jump on the social media bandwagon In the .mac announcement Steve specially called out other people doing Internet service so Apple was going to do them asl well. The xServe and xServe Raid was Apple chasing the enterprise market with products that weren't terribly compelling or unique. 

As for controlling the narrative, Steve Jobs in Katie Cotten were very active in working with the press whenever a journalist said something unflattering.  They also didn't wait until keynotes or product releases to get in front of things. Steve's "Thoughts on Flash" is a good example of Apple getting out in front of a narrative that was bubbling up that Apple didn't like. Another example is when Greenpeace led an effective PR campaign against Apple and Steve addressed that head on as well.  Steve was also very much was interested in what pundits would say. In particular he was fond of Walt Mossberg  and would  bring him up his quotes about Appel in keynotes and interviews.

So, yeah.... thanks for confirming my suspension that you are newer to Apple and depend on the mythological version of the Steve years rather than the reality.  

Talk about disingenuous. Not only are you wrong, but you lie on purpose. I posted about the demo in an article about it. Since the info at the time was that it would be part of the purchase process, that’s what I commented on. You knew that but wanted to pretend I invented that thought just to advance you false narrative. But that’s not new for you. 

I’ve pointed out enough hard facts as to why it’s rushed -as you know since you follow me around. But I also mentioned the fact that it’s also all over YouTube. Even mkbhd has pointed out the limitations that make it seem not ready for prime time. It’s so underwhelming that all anyone can say is “this is good news for 2nd gen.” Not a glowing endorsement. 

And no I’m not new to apple. But you’re not interested in honesty. Only in stories. Tell another one. It’s nearly bedtime. 

i get that you really really want so badly to believe that this is the greatest thing since scrambled eggs. You really really want it to be better than it is. You really want others to think that too. 

But the reality is it’s just a first gen headset thst doesn’t really do much different than say a meta quest. 

It’s a nice, niche little vr headset that works like a vr headset, but is priced like a pro mac. 

You can’t rate the thing based on what you hope it will be someday. You rate it based on what you have in front of you. 

There was an article on this site where it was claimed that an apple employee was frustrated that the majority of vp returns were “the &@$!# YouTubers!.” 

So… the YouTubers who make money reviewing the Vision Pro were so unimpressed they didn’t want to keep it? Just another indicator that it’s not the next big thing. 

Certainly that wouldn’t have been the case with the first iPod, iPhone, etc.