ddawson100

I agree that a subscription mouse is absolutely absurd but their CEO hasn't said anything about subscribing to a mouse. She mentioned the concept of a a quality "forever mouse" and mentioned that it's possible that people would want to pay for software updates to go with their hardware. It's maybe cynical to hear (read about) these two topics in an interview and conflate them. Logitech has never required you to pay for their software and if they had something good enough I imagine they could incrementally increase their revenue.

Their newer Logi Options+ is making it easier to assign multi-step macros to their mice & keyboards. Some of these macros duplicate other things I'm doing with paid software. If Logitech could compete with those other ones and do it better then I'd consider buying from them, too. But that's not a subscription mouse.

alterbentzion said:

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing this. 

Chalk it up to his optimism, but one thing Jobs did get wrong (a bit more than halfway through) was his lack of concern for breaches of privacy. 

For the first couple of decades, the focus was much more on interconnectivity and broadening access. It would have been wild for anyone to be thinking about USING computers at all never mind uploading personal data. In the forseeable future, from the vantagepoint of the early 80s, access to electronic databases would only have been reachable by anyone in physical proximity. Simply getting people to see the possibilities is what Steve was after.

"You know, by '86, '87, pick a year, people are going to be spending more time interacting with these machines than they do interacting with their big automobile machines today. People are going to be spending two, three hours a day sometimes, interacting with these machines." 

Oh, my sweet summer child... : )

Uniquely Bay-area problems can be solved by Bay-area agencies, corporations, and people getting together. I applaud Apple for contributing to solving local problems.

TBeaubien said:

As outlined on DaringFireball.net in early May, John Gruber pointed out that there's no capacity for making more than around 450K VisionPro units and any "expectations" from outside bullshit artists are just that - bullshit.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/06/vision-pro-sales-are-going-just-about-as-expected

Thanks for the informative (and your first post), TBeaubien. I found this very interesting. Snip from the post:

TheElec reported last June that Sony only had the capacity to manufacture 900,000 OLED panels per year for Vision Pro, which, if true, would cap Vision Pro headset production at 450,000 units. The Information reported in August that this display bottleneck “is one reason why Apple plans to make fewer than half a million Vision Pros in the first year of production”.