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What you need to order Apple Vision Pro from Apple Store online? A healthy bank account and quite a bit of optimism.

I’m not quite sure what these tests accomplish- since the alerts are passive it’s not like people are going to phone in and say “ hey, I didn’t get the alert”. And seriously, if there is an emergency where you need to alert everyone ion the country that something bad is happening or is about to happen, then reading about it probably not going to help much.

Gah! Photoshopped Eddy Cue is super creepy IMO. Plus, c’mon Apple you made this of Eddy like a decade ago - update his portrait to his current trollish visage I imagine he’s become.

Agreed on how nonsensical this all is. I imagine it is to build more hype and interest about the “amazing experiences” yet to come with AV but it rings so hollow.
As another commenter rightly points out, the device is mounted to your head already and the band wraps around near the ear. Why would we need a wireless earbud for this? I like the idea of a jack so you could choose between over the ear or in-ear buds assuming they would be offered as options.

Also, if the quotes from the article are accurate, is it just me that finds Eric Treski‘a comments complete fluff and nonsense? I mean, he’s Director of marketing? Marketing is generally bs but there are gradations: AAA to to weak AF. This was closer to the later - not too good at his job.

Also, they are saying that 2.4 band is too noisy and crowded so the move to 5gig will improve the situation? How’s that? All modern WiFi is typically 5ghz though you have the legacy (ie 10 years ago) when 2.4 was the standard). 5GHz certainly would give them more bandwidth but shorter range and probably uses more power. Also, since this is supposedly being done as as some prelude to the VisionPro do people really have so many 2.4 gHz devices in there immediate vicinity to cause a problem? Doubt it.

“Apple doesn't "scan" user photos stored on device or in iCloud in any way.”

well, this is a patently false statement. If Apple weren’t scanning photos in any way how could the For You memories feature in the photos app exist. All our photos are being scanned for content, period. This is such a farce it’s sickening.

New article here on AI (Apple insider) just popped up on Apple’s use of AI (the sorta scarier one).

In part it talks about AI use in photos app: “Facial recognition in images is possible thanks to machine learning. The People album allows searching for identified people and curating images.

An on-device knowledge graph powered by machine learning can learn a person's frequently visited places, associated people, events, and more. It can use this gathered data to automatically create curated collections of photos and videos called "Memories."

You don’t have “curated collections” without content scanning.