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  • Apple Vision Pro is motivating a giant California health provider

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    I think the potential is great, but the interaction with the patient I find problematic.  I think it's strange for a doctor to talk to a patient while wearing this headset.  It's just seems cold and distant.  The interface though is amazing.  I know this is a first-generation product and it will get refined in the upcoming years.  If they can miniaturize this to one day be similar to regular glasses, then that would be amazing.

    Yes, VR headsets have been around for ages.  It is irrelevant that they others "did it first".  What Apple did, as they always do, is come in later and actually make it useful, and exciting.  This is a seriously cool piece of tech.  I'm excited to see where this goes in say, ten years.
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  • Looks like YouTube will make an Apple Vision Pro app after all

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    Considering all the moronic behavior that YouTubers are doing with the AVP, it comes to no surprise that YouTube wants to get into the game.  It is certainly making quite a bit of revenue from all those engagements.

    It's pathetic that we live in a society where reckless behavior is what drives revenue for social media companies.
    williamlondonthadecAnilu_777watto_cobra

  • Phil Schiller warns third-party app stores are a risk to iPhone users

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    He's right to a certain degree.  Users are stupid, and will blame everyone and anyone else before pointing the finger at themselves.

    It's going to happen.  Someone is going to side-load a seemingly innocent app, only for that app to hijack their data, possibility gain access to their financial details, etc... User (and the media) will blame Apple for allowing this to happen.

    When the iPhone was still a few years into its introduction, every news organization and faux-"news" sites like Gizmodo and Cnet, etc... they were all on the bandwagon about a user that had their phones hijacked and information stolen.  "How dare Apple allow this?!"...   The main headline was all about how "insecure" the iPhone is, blah.. blah...

    I clearly remember one article I read.  At the very end of the article, in the most smallest of font starting with an asterisk, it was disclosed that the iPhone was jailbroken and the app came from Cydia.

    Yeah... I don't give a f**k if a user wants to go out of the App Store to get their sketchy apps.  What I have an issue with is these morons turning-around and blaming Apple for having Android-like security - meaning "none".


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  • Only Apple could have made Apple Vision Pro, say firm's design chiefs

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    Xed said:
    That's not entirely true. Huawei and Samsung can do it... after they get ahold of Apple's designs and tech specs.
    If there's one certainty in life is that iKnockoff companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, and Huawei bought the VisionPro and reverse-engineering it.  Without Apple's top-quality software to go with it, they will fail.
    Bart Ywilliamlondonwatto_cobrajony0

  • Browsers like Chrome and Firefox can abandon WebKit in EU with iOS 17.4

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    What I think will happen is that hardly any users will do any business outside of Apple's own App Store due to better safety, smacking pie in the face of the EU.  The result will be the EU demanding that Apple open up the App Store to 3rd-party apps because whiny developers.  
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