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Controller and game engine support are nice to have features for the visionOS feature set, but what would really help is Apple actually publishing games that people want to play, and have hardware that are at mass market prices. 

While skeuomorphism is helpful for transitionary periods, there comes a point where designs can be refined. Generation Z, or kids born between 1997 and 2012 have largely grown up online, with many of them having interfaced with smartphones and tablets from a young age. This goes doubly so for Generation Alpha.

How do you know this is true?

This was the narrative at the time, but it just sounds stupid. Was it a post-hoc rationalization from UI designers to change UI "fashion", and that bled into the media?

Humans are humans. We have like the most homogeneous set of behaviors across 8 billion beings and even across 50,000 years of time. You can magically transport someone from 20,000 years ago to today and they will adjust, and have many of the same mannerisms that we have today.

Remember reading above these "tourist" items being sold in Roman Britain. Like a pen, and their were inscriptions on them that were, in effect, saying the very tourist thing to say, like "I was in Britain". Or graffiti of all kinds from thousands of years ago that were just trolling people.

Broken record. I would like to have cameras that are flush with the back please. Like, put 4 or 5 24MP cameras of varying focal distance, color, aperture etc and fuse them all into a 24 MP image. Nokia tried years ago, but it was too slow. The computing power should be available now, plus they can shortcut it with a trained ML model now.

The size of the lens are just every increasing, both in Z-height and in number.

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Likely a speaker with a screen. An ai Alexa. 

What else is a third device “on your desk?”

doesn’t sound like a wearable. 

Saw the Ive and Altman commercial yesterday on YouTube. They sounded very bullish on this as if it were the next great thing. 

As much as I don’t personally care for where technology is heading as it removes humans from the equation more and more, my interest is piqued concerning this. As it always is when Jony Ive is involved. The man always produces the best hardware designs, whether it’s a computer, a music player, a smartphone, a tablet, a watch, wireless earbuds, and even a paper red nose. Whatever he makes, it’s either revolutionary or st worst, best in class. 

Oh, Jony Ive has had his misses. There are times he's given a shit sandwich of components and what came out wasn't great. He couldn't save it. It boiled down to being a systems problem, with Jobs ultimately responsible, or Ive himself in the early Cook era as CEO. Ive was given carte blanche on product marketing and product design, including the GUI after the 2012 reorg, and that 2013 to 2018 era or Apple products had a lot of misses.

The iPod 3rd gen was 4 capacitive buttons on top of the capacitive scroll wheel. That sucked. It was mostly fixed with the iPod 4th gen with a capacitive scrollwheel on a rocker that could be mechanically clicked at the corners.

The iPod shuffle with no buttons was an obviously misfire of design and product marketing. Button clusters dangling from headset cords are not good at controller audio functions, especially the double and triple clicking. Reverted in the next model.

The 2013 Mac Pro was a bad design, bad marketing all around. Ive was particularly proud of it, but it didn't serve the Mac Pro's customers well at all, and apparently did not serve the hardware engineering time well either.

The MacBook 12 was Ive's baby too. They tried really hard to get it to sell, to replace the MBA. Never took.

I'm not a big fan of the 2D UI look introduced with iOS 7, but other people really like it. Me, it was too much like web page design, or flat design, with words that were buttons but didn't look like buttons. Who knows who drove the decision for the slide-left from anywhere on the iOS lockscreen to get to the camera.

I think the Apple Watch was Ive's biggest design hit. It only had the wart of the premium tier of gold cased Watches. The band design, the UI, the case design, all has stood the test of time.

It was only after 2018, when Ive checked out, where Apple's hardware finally returned to its generally solid state.

It’s small stakes for Epic. iOS, and iPadOS, was about 7% of Fortnite’s revenues back in 2018. That share has been smaller and shrinking since 2020, whenever Epic lost their developer license. It’s been 5 years now.