mrstep

jeff fields said:

mrstep said:

tiredskills said:

AppleInsider said:

"As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to look before we leap,'" executive producer and star Sudeikis said in the release, "in season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it's exactly where they're meant to be."

What a bizarre message.  I predict this will continue the final season trajectory of the show to the absolute pits.

I got about 2 episodes into S3 and quit. Season 2 was already nowhere near season one - having the 50-something team owner sleeping with an early 20's player was a true WTF plot concept, and had it been man/woman instead of woman/man, that would have been quite differently handled - and 3 was just unwatchable.

OTOH, Slow Horses is excellent.

Waddingham was around 47 at that time and the actor playing Sam was 25. That's 40s and mid-20s. If you have to exaggerate to make your already lame point, that kinda shows you didn't have a point at all. Also, if you are too closed-minded to handle that kind of relationship, that's a problem with you. Not the show. Obviously.

Lol, ok, I'm sure they would have romanticized it if an older male team owner was sleeping with a young female player. Just saying it was a poor plot choice, but obviously that's too radical for your delicate constitution.  Enjoy season 4.

tiredskills said:

AppleInsider said:

"As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to look before we leap,'" executive producer and star Sudeikis said in the release, "in season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it's exactly where they're meant to be."

What a bizarre message.  I predict this will continue the final season trajectory of the show to the absolute pits.

I got about 2 episodes into S3 and quit. Season 2 was already nowhere near season one - having the 50-something team owner sleeping with an early 20's player was a true WTF plot concept, and had it been man/woman instead of woman/man, that would have been quite differently handled - and 3 was just unwatchable.

robin huber said:

Jeez, must have stumbled into the Ageists Power website! 

It's pretty funny to watch.

anonymouse said:

avon b7 said:

ihatescreennames said:

AppleInsider said:

Apple draws a clear line in the sand that it would never allow such an app on the App Store. While it is true you'll never find an app for PornHub in the App Store, there are plenty of popular apps filled with explicit, pornographic, or otherwise adult material all over the App Store.

The statement is even more bewildering given that Safari enables easy access to porn from the jump unless specific steps are taken to block the content. If the device is owned by a minor, certain filters are automatically in place, but even those aren't enough.

Serious question: what apps can I download from the App Store that are “filled with” pornographic material?

Also, it isn’t bewildering at all that Apple doesn’t want to carry porn apps in the store that carries Apple’s name and is associated with Apple. I seem to recall some Apple executive even making a comment about how things are accessible in Safari that aren’t in the App Store because Safari allows full access to the internet. Maybe I’m conflating things but that’s what I recall. 

That's fair comment but I suppose there are plenty of apps that allow users to see and share porn. Especially in the IM group of apps. 

Tumblr? 

It's actually fine for Apple to not want to offer this or that. The reasoning behind the decision isn't even necessary. In that sense the 'it's their store...' line is OK. 

The root problem for me is that no mention of App Store limitations is made prior to purchase (or of any of the other limitations for that matter) and that Apple doesn't allow other stores to even exist.

That has changed now at least in the EU. 

Yes, it's so great that the EU is solidly behind the exploitation and objectivization of women.

You mean empowerment! (This is a schizophrenic issue for society in general.)

Wesley Hilliard said:

surf monkey said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

pulseimages said:

It’s a flop.

surf monkey said:

Tech bro garbage that no one wants. 

I don't feel that way. I doubt Apple thinks it is a flop. If Apple sold the entire inventory during pre orders (supply chain info shows they did) and that was north of 180,000 units and we're not counting upgrades or accessories, then that equates to about 10% of Meta's total profit from Meta Quest 2 in opening weekend. Apple sold an estimated 400,000 units in 2024. That's about $1.4 billion in the first year compared to $7.2 billion in the entire lifetime of Meta Quest 2.

Tough to call that a flop.

Meta just said it has lost $60 billion since 2020 on its headset division.

I think Apple and Apple Vision Pro are doing fine by all metrics. It may not be a blockbuster, but comparing everything to iPhone is a waste of time.

How is Vision improving anyone’s life? How does it align with Apple’s stated desire to enable creativity and support “the crazy ones”? What is it beyond a very expensive toy that’s bound to fill up garbage dumps sooner or later? I mean, seriously. We can all see what’s going on in the world right now. This kind of nonsense isn’t advancing anything useful for society at large. 

Tech bros looking to scoop up more money. Vision is a flat out flop. Kill it. 

In the upcoming AppleInsider Podcast, I talk to someone that uses it while holding his child. It's one of the only platforms that lets you use it easily with one hand.

Improving life? The device in its own is a whimsical triumph. I smile when I put it on, it brought tears to my sister in law that got to relive her wedding via spatial video, I can play chess with a friend halfway across the country and feel like they are in the room with me.

The crazy ones? The ones that break away from the status quo of computing to seek something exciting and new? Sounds like Apple Vision Pro fits perfectly into Apple's old marketing campaign.

Apple Vision Pro is letting people navigate their electric wheelchair using head gestures and voice. It's allowing users trapped in a tiny cubical to work from a beach. It's telling stories in ways we've never been able to experience without being there in person, and I don't know about you, but I can't go feed baby elephants in Africa right now.

So no, I utterly disagree with your assessment. 

It's amazing to use and certainly feels like the future.  It also needs a v3.0 sooner than later for things like 'window spaces', better window management in general (tighter UIs - e.g. infinite canvas is not infinite when the calculator along takes as much of your FOV as a 32" monitor, window snapping, remembering where you laid out windows on future launches), controller support as you mentioned, etc.

Aside from 2.3 feeling like maybe 1.0 (maybe still slightly less given lack of native apps), there's the difficulty of conveying how stunning it is despite rough edges - spatial media is truly magical, spatial SharePlay feels like a sci-fi movie come to life, a spatial workspace is closer to how we actually work - and seeing faked infomercial-feeling videos of someone using those just don't convey the actual experience at all.

And it's 1.0 hardware - so was the first iPhone, but that had a lower price and lower friction to use & demo, it may take AR glasses to hit the broader use case.

But every time I put it on, I'm blown away. It's not general consumer ready, despite everything packed in it's still first-gen hardware and software, but.... just damn, still incredible, and hopefully part of Apple's path.