Pema

I like and remember Arquette fondly from Medium. I eagerly waited for this show to start. After cringing through ½ an episode I switched to another show. It was simply unbearable and unwatchable. 

Apple is slowly but surely eroding Zuckerberg's platform. First they took away his advertising revenue. So he changed the company name to Meta. Now they have stolen the limelight with Vision Pro. Soon he will change his company name, again, to Beta. 

Skeptical said:

FFS!!!!!! It’s not magical. It’s scientific and engineering. 

Every ground-breaking product commands an exorbitant price. When the first flat-panel telly came out it cost $29,990. The operating unit was separate from the telly itself and was tethered by a bunch of cables to the main display. But, if you wanted to have a telly that looked noticeably different from the furniture box that was the common product, had the money you went out and got one.

 

With time, the price of the componentry went down; the technology evolved and number of flat panel TVs on the market grew exponentially, so much so that even cheap motel rooms have clones of well-known brands on offer.

 

The only place you see the boxy telly is on the side of the street with the other garbage or if you have a grandparent that is an octogenarian and doesn’t stream anything other than urine.

 

Early dissension at Apple indicated that some insiders were not happy with the launch. Others felt that Apple needed a new product other than the iPhone of iPad or Mac or Watch. So they took a gamble on this. Risk, reward type of thing.

 

At $3799 I am not buying one. Even though I can easily afford two: one for me and one for my partner.  

 

There is an simile theorem that goes like this: ‘The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. 

 

That’s what Apple has done here. They have oodles of cash; some of the best engineers on the planet and can cobble together known componentry: sensors, chips, screens, software etc. etc.

 

But in all of this cobbling together there is nothing revolutionary, just evolutionary bundling together of existing componentry by using their skill set and software nous.

 

The folks at Apple that dissented felt strongly that what the goggles need is another invention that is yet to be unleashed that will simplify the product and make it cheap enough to be affordable and successful.

 

In my view the early adopters of this product will be like the ones that bought into the $29,990 flat-panel telly. They helped pave the way with their wallets to products that can now be had for as little as $499 at a big box store.

 

 

That's great. Get your McYuk Chook and then get a reading on your cholesterol. 
Why not buy a fresh chook and cook it yourself? Every product from McYuk is either frozen, loaded with sugar or high in cholesterol. 
It is the new tobacco.

Microsoft (of DOS & Windows infamy) that has more bugs and malware than there are pebbles on the beach. They are so busy swatting their sheit, when do they have the time to debug others?