Pema

ihatescreennames said:

Pema said:

That said there is no reason why Apple cannot add a feature to Apple Car Play to distinguish it from Google Car Play in order to let the motorist cast the phone screen to the head screen.  

No reason except that in most US states (all?) it is illegal (to show video that could be distracting to the operator of the vehicle). 

How is that even remotely enforceable? If you have turn-by-turn navigation on your head screen you are intermittently looking at the screen anyway so you anticipate your next step along the way. 
If you are casting CNN or any other news, it would be similarly distracting to viewing a talking map. Would it not? 

All these improvements to Apple Car Play is utter and total nonsense. The app does nothing more than mimicking a few minor functions that are of little value to the motorist. 

I use Google Maps and Google Search. If I am planning a destination I simply go to Google Search, find the location, then click on directions which then get cast to the head screen and I get there quickly, efficiently and safely. 
I will never, ever use Apple Car Play not since the fiasco with Apple Maps when motorists where directed off the road to an embankment then to an airport in front of airplanes. Apple Maps is like Microsoft Bing never, ever to be used or trusted. 

The only thing that will ever improve my experience and make me consider even looking at Apple Car Play is if they introduce casting. That means that if I am watching the news or any other program while I am driving I can occasionally glance at the screen when it safe to do so and then continue driving. 

When I had an Android Pixel Phone I could do that. The reason that I replaced it with an iPhone is because of security. Android is bug ridden everyone knows that. 

That said there is no reason why Apple cannot add a feature to Apple Car Play to distinguish it from Google Car Play in order to let the motorist cast the phone screen to the head screen. Not minor, silly functionality. 

Incidentally Google Car Play does not do that of itself. You have to root the phone. 

22july2013 said:

On July 12 it's available in Canada for a whopping C$5000 + C$200 lenses + C$600 storage option + C$700 AppleCare + C$845 tax= C$7345. And yet I'll probably get one.

That's $5400 USD. Wonderful. When you are done purchasing the Vision Pro please write to me about the Humane AI Pin. I can probably organise one for $1000 USD. 

This all looks great. What isn't great is that the Vision Pro is too expensive. There are no tiers like with any other major Apple product. You can customise the latest MacBook M3 to your budget. Likewise you can select the iPhone you can afford/or need and customise that to your budget. 
Not with the Vision Pro. It's like Henry Ford's mantra: you can have any colour you like as long as it's black. 

I cannot begin to imagine Apple releasing just the one iPhone model: iPhone Pro Max specced to the hilt at $2200 USD. For starters not many people can afford to spend that much on a phone, neither do all users need that level of iPhone. 

The Vision Pro looks to be a truly revolutionary product in the mixed reality headset space, but at $3500 USD per unit it is too rich for me. 

The other problem is the buyer needs to go into the Apple store to be fitted for the product. Another impediment. 

There is no trade-in for the Vision Pro! to bring the cost down. 

I would suggest that somewhere along the line Apple botched this product from wow to go. 

Tim Cook needed a headline grabbing product and pushed for its release before it was ready. Hopefully when Apple re-releases the Vision Basic in 2025/2026 it will have refined the product to the point of where the main features of the Vision Pro trickle down to the Vision Basic, plus the hardware costs will have been streamlined and on mass production cost less. 

I am a buyer at $1500 USD. That's it. 

Can I afford to wait to 2025/2026? Well, I haven't been lying back dreaming I must have a mixed reality headset that will drain my wallet out of $3500 USD. 

The iPhone is a different paradigm. I often do think of the next release and what it can do for me. The iPhone 16 looks like a winner. And I will be upgrading. And after the trade-in it will run me appx. $900 USD. I can stomach that. 

The good news is that Apple is not a one-trick pony like Humane who put all their eggs in one basket and now are shopping their omelette for a buyer. 

Most likely HP. They usually buy obsolete technologies. Palm O/S - remember that?

Xed said:

lordjohnwhorfin said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Trump winning its a given at this point.

The world needs it.

The world needs a felon with 34 criminal convictions who is incapable of stringing two sentences together in charge of the US? I don't think so.

Not that Biden is dong any better with speaking these days, but at the end of the day I'm going to vote for the person who actually believes in a democracy, not a fascist and wannabe dictator.

Neither are you mate. Dong? What is dong? It would appear that you are as bad as Biden.