Wait longer before releasing this product to market? Hold for breakthrough in battery tech for longer lasting user experience when on the go, and reduce footprint of the Vision Pro itself so you’re not wearing a gigantic dorky swimmers mask.
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Apple 'Magic Battery' Will Power Vision Pro Headset
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You are right, it’s a battery. A battery that you are calling a “train wreck” and you call giving it a fancy marketing name “lipstick on a pig”. So you obviously think there is something fundamentally wrong with the battery, and not just the name.
If you are going to wait until better tech is available, you will be waiting forever. Original iPhone was slow and lacked 3G. Original Macintosh was starved for RAM. Original Apple Watch was very sluggish. They all got better, fast.
It’s not meant to be used when you are on the go. Sure, you can take it with you, and use it in various locations. But in every use case you are more or less stationary, and the device can be plugged in in that kind of use. One exception might be airplanes.
And there are no battery breakthroughs on the horizon, just iterative improvements.
Ah, you want something like regular eyeglasses, with AR? That kind of tech is long, long, LONG ways off. You might have something like that if you just use some simple HUD-like interface. But that’s not what Apple was going for, they wanted a full-fledged GUI with robust apps.
But hey, apparently this device does not suit your wants and needs. There is a simple solution to that: don’t buy it.
Just. Plug. It. In… problem solved! 🫶🏻
I swear people want all new tech to be perfect from the get go. The whole point of this is getting it to market and developing it year on year. There is amazing future with this tech and it will only get stronger year on year. It's why it's at market now so developers in the end can develop for all different apps. Obviously not all developers will be on board yet until it's here and the interest is there. Once there is then it will only from strength to strength.
In Apple parlance, Pro is for profit, same for Max and Ultra. Magic is when you're stuck with insurmontable design challenges. They went "here we go, ready or not", even if they had to append this dangling battery. More "Vision" needed, for sure.
No, that isn’t accurate. Breakthrough technology needs an obvious use case. Tim’s Newton Goggles don’t have that.
They do? Odd, since the primary take on the device is that it’s a solution in search of a problem.
The problem here the timing, aligned resources, library of content established, and right pricing. It's not at all similar to the fascination that the initial iPhone created. Back when we had MacWorld and thousands could hear speeches and see exhibits it was all magical. Yes that is a shot I took art the time.
Compare that to what Apple is doing now, you're mostly watching an annual WWDC video instead of being able to see it in an exhibit. This was when the iPhone first came out. The Vision Pro is not even the final product and its still a secretive prototype that is shown in a very limited circumstances so majority of people have not had a hands on or seen specifications, or seen the VisionOS working. It's akin to a CES keynote by some big manufacturer where possible examples are exhibited and it's somewhat expensive. There is a complete lack of assurance towards consumers that its the final deliverable product as it forecasted to be sometime 2024. So Apple has to contend with consumers wanting new tech to be perfect when it launches, instead of new products that will evolve. Yeah we are spoiled and Apple has a lot higher hurdle to meet now.
I’m sorry but it is accurate. Nothing like this with this level of tech has been seen before. Eventually you will be able to do things that your iohone, iPad, Mac can do all in one. That’s the long term vision.
It is accurate. The device isn’t breaking new ground and it lacks an obvious use case.
And really, who cares if it’s “breakthrough” technology if no one wants to wear the thing?
Who says they don’t? This thing will likely sell out. It’s got plenty of use cases. Watching films, sport games, dealing with spreadsheets and general browsing with massive sized windows is a great use case.
Basically everything you do now on your devices but in a better way. Is the tech got plenty of room to develop? Yes but the vision is there long term to be really great.
Just like foldables when they came to market. It’s something different and new
Yes
Maybe the problem is with you, and not the device? Maybe you just don’t get it?
iPhone was also “solution looking for a problem”. I mean, we already had smartphones, and people liked them. Apple just released their own take on the device that was way better than anything else on the market. Same thing with iPad.
It’s either people are just stuck in the mud and don’t want to see new things or they think it’s too expensive for their budget so it’s trash
Someone’s podcast doesn’t really prove anything.
It’s goggles. Goggles that have no killer app. The barriers to adoption of “spatial computing” are many and very high. I applaud your enthusiasm but I’d suggest that a dose of realism might be in order.
Name an Apple device that’s does. iPhone broke no new ground, it was a version of existing product type, just better. Same thing with iPods, iPad, Apple Watch, hell, just about anything Apple makes. They don’t come out with something totally different from what came before, they “just” come out with something that is way better than what came before.
It’s first hand experience from someone who actually used one. And there are other similar comments.
And iPhone is a phone, what’s your point?
Entertainment as a whole is such a killer app.
That rings a bell…
I did? Where?
It’s a kind of device we have already seen, just orders of magnitude better than what came before it.