y2an

It’s clear. They want to control video and don’t want to create competition on the Mac from video card suppliers. Makes sense, if you want developers to produce write once, run anywhere code for all Macs, you hold off on the custom video cards. This is as has been said for specialist expansion needs only. 

It’s VisionPro for a reason. High price point (deliberate, to encourage only the serious to buy at launch), and expect Vision at a more reasonable price later. This is a potential Meta-killer by raising awareness of the issues around eye tracking data privacy. 

Photo Stream is showing its age for lack of ongoing development, not anything which couldn’t be addressed with ongoing investment. This change by Apple is a pure monetisation play, intended to drive up iCloud storage fees. The AI article could frankly have been written by an Apple product manager wanting to use the press to assuage the public’s angry reaction - where is objective and critical journalism when you need it?

And people wondered why some iPads were upped to M1. There’s always a reason Apple does things, even if it’s a long time coming. 

GM and this article miss the boat. It’s about my data, not streaming audio. My phone has my life on it. Ask to take me to a friend’s house, it does without any cross-keying of data. Call a friend? Likewise. It’s the data, dummy. The data.