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If Apple is focusing upon markets with larger margins that is great news. Apple might want to disrupt the Hearing Aid market next, I know someone who paid handsomely for some recently that are pretty poor quality despite costing thousands. 

Hopefully there’ll be a larger 15” iPad Pro don’t mind if that’’s the one that is $400 more

I can’t see blood oxygen mattering anymore for more than 99% of people, it was an important thing during the Covid era, but now I think hardly anyone ever uses it.

I’m very,very health conscious especially due to my heart and circulatory issues and even I probably only used it once in the last 6 months and even then more as a point of interest whilst bored. 

I think if Apple replaced blood oxygen monitoring with either blood pressure or blood sugar that would be a far more compelling product. 

Yep, the weight is not in the M2 chip or the R1 chip. The weight is in the case/lenses/cameras. We might see some of the camera tech being paired back for example as the optimal and most important use-case scenarios emerge. 

When using the AVP such as being sat at a desk using a MBP and with AVP screens to supplement is realistically no different to someone sat at a desk with 3 or 4 physical monitors - for the AVP wearer.

For other people in the room the eyesight feature will be essential to overcome the perceived social isolation. So I think this is a very important feature that will need to improve over time. Gradually making more parts of AVP transparent, or making the AVP device smaller, will help with this issue too.

Funnily enough, when in film school in the 90s I made a short film called “The Drug of the Future” - which was about the potential negatives of VR, so this tech has been a long time coming for me and I’ve long foreseen and looked forward to the pros and cons. 

That said, many thought that people would look stupid with Airpods in their ears - if the use case for AVP gets established then it will quickly become normal to see people wearing them imho. I say this as someone who still gets laughed at when I’m playing a game in a PSVR2 and that would still be the same for someone playing a game on AVP - but someone watching movies or working with one of these on I think will become normal quite quickly. 

That leads me to say that the AVP is priced around the price of 2x Apple Studio Displays so the price of entry isn’t too bad - if it is a device you will use - which is pretty much true for all tech? It’s only over-priced to you if it provides you personally with no value. My Macs and Apple monitors are tools that I use to make money, same could be true for AVP, eventually. I see a future where 3D sculpting in ZBrush with Mac/AVP would be amazing; but we are at version 1, there’s a road ahead to travel. 

I can’t see it happening. The apps will have to be notarized by Apple and Epic might not even be allowed an Apple Developer account 😂