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jcs2305 said:

What's interesting to me is where the belief that this unannounced product will somehow cost $3,000.00!! That is a very specific amount for something that can't even be verified to exist! Yikes!  Even Sony's VR2 which getting good reviews and is being considered a pretty solid offering is $549.00.

It’ll be interesting to see if the Apple VR system is stand alone. If it is, then we would need to consider that the PSVR requires a PS5 which also costs 500 dollars. So to do anything with the PSVR 2 requires a 1000 dollar investment. Still a huge leap to 3000, but not as drastic as 500 to 3000.

hexclock said:

That’s why Asian and Indian Americans are the most successful minority groups in the US. They work very hard in school, and at their employment. The rest of us should emulate that. 

I am curious what the data is on third generation immigrant families still possessing that same work ethic is. I suspect that they would be less like their grandparents and more like the cultural norm. 

dysamoria said:

How many of you take advantage of being able to type long iMessages with paragraph breaks? Does it not bother you that you cannot scroll that text box (you know, to do proofreading; people do proofread, right??) without iOS getting “confused” and “assuming” you want to close the keyboard? Just me, huh? Because that’s what it feels like.

It feels like I’m the only person who uses this device enough to notice the mountain of bugs and conflicting gestures that it has become. It feels like no one at Apple actually uses their own products and that people on these Apple forums cannot see flaws.

Today’s Apple is not the same company as the Apple being showcased in the years of the iPhone’s first few years. I want that Apple back. There is no Steve Jobs to have back, and there’s also a lot of lost vision and attention to detail that seems it’s never coming back as well. It’s depressing.

Am I missing something here? To scroll, just touch and hold the spacebar. The keyboard turns into a trackpad and you scroll to where you want to make an edit. Or are you referring to something else?

I share your sentiment as I have my own frustrations, but I disagree with your conclusion. When comparing current day iPhones with the iPhone as a new product there are many details that cannot be glossed over. One that conflicts with your statement of Apple not caring, is that the first iPhone was extremely limited. These imposed limits that Apple chose to put on the original (and earlier) iPhones is what made it ‘just work’. It wasn’t trying to be everything, it was doing 3 things well. As time and competition caught up, additional features come into the fold. More features = more places for bugs to hide. Whenever, I start to get frustrated by something that I feel Apple should be doing better at, I look to my friends that have Android or Alexa and see that they also suffer from their own bugs/limits.

Unfortunately that Apple no longer exists. It is one of the biggest, wealthiest and most successful companies in the world now. They are no longer maintaining a single vision from which to grow; but, rather, a larger and all encompassing one. They can no longer be a company that will surprise everyone with a new piece of tech, like AR/VR glasses, that will revolutionize the industry and be unlike anything from Apple that we have ever seen. Everything they do in this space has to about being a piece of the larger picture for Apple, which is to say how does AR/VR fit into what and where Apple is currently headed. And for that, IMO, Apple can never be what there were 20 years ago. It can be seen as a sad reality, but such is life. I cannot be my teenage, carefree, and self-absorbed me ever again; I have seen and experienced too many things. No matter how hard I try, I can never be that again. 🤷‍♂️

bloggerblog said:

When Jobs introduced Siri he said it’s going to be a conversational AI assistant. I know it could be hard to do, but it’s been 10 years! Siri had a huge head start, it should be better than the competition in every way. 

While Apple may have appeared to have a bit of a head start, Google had the advantage in most ways over Apple. The foundation that Google could build their assistant off of came from their work with predictive search, scanning the worlds books, digitizing and cataloging everything else, and all the work done with targeted, personalized ads. All Apple had as a potential base to build off of was, IMO, finder. Apple’s business model and all their learnings over the years are not very transferable to the creation of a voice assistant; Google’s (and Amazon’s and even Meta’s) are transferable. Using this as a potential predictive model; if one knew Microsoft’s business model, could they have predicted where they would fall in advancement of Cortana? I would say yes. Microsoft did try to pivot a bit with the release of Bing, but they were over a decade behind Google in Search. 

I use Siri daily, and while she has gotten better, the more proficient and comfortable I am becoming with speaking my thoughts instead of taking the slower time of typing them down, the more aggravating it is as I hit up against more boundaries of her abilities. I do hope that the work that they have been doing with Maps and Siri suggested search results starts to expand Siri’s portfolio. Luckily for Apple, I really don’t know what I am missing, yet, as I am invested in their ecosystem and most of my immediate and extended family and friend groups are too. Those that are using Android, are not using Okay Google in any meaningful way either. But for how much longer… I do hope Apple steps up their game in this area and soon too. Perhaps the release of a significant upgrade will be coincided with the release of their AR headset? 🤷‍♂️🤞

Cheers.

DAalseth said:

Well, rats, I was really hoping the new ipadOS would be out today. 

Ditto. 😕 

Six more days it is.