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Nevermark•23 minutes ago
The Vision is a disappointment, in my opinion, only because the software effort was so bizarrely unambitious compared to the hardware effort.

Just the Mac display capability gives it great value. But if they had positioned the Vision as the more powerful cousin of the Mac, in interface and OS, instead of shoehorning iOS into 3D it would be worth the money. And more.

If they shipped with:

• Ultra

• More RAM

• Hot swap batteries, larger sizes, with optionally longer or shorter cables, and daisy-chaining capable.

• Keyboard+trackpad slab that looks like the bottom half of a laptop

• Spacial pen, pens, finger tips, or if possible, incredibly precise finger tip tracking. And a fast fingers-writing system.

• Any number of independent Mac-like windows, but with full spacial components, first-level entities, instead of flat and in a "screen" container.

• Enabled Mac-level flexibility and access, enabling serious interfaces and development

I would pay $5000 or more for that today.

Cook whiffed on what could have been an amazing legacy, suitable for Steve Jobs' successor: A Mac superior device. Instead his legacy: Wasting groundbreaking hardware on another media + toy app kiosk, service-fee lanyard. "In 3D!"

andsoitis•about 3 hours ago
> in an all-new product category

VR has been around for a very very long time. AR too.

The argument that Vision Pro is something other than VR is wishful thinking and a disconnect from reality, which, not that I write it out, is perhaps apropos.

adampunk•about 2 hours ago
This is a lovely time capsule.

Used to be the case that Gruber had the best sources in Apple. He went corporate and started doing managed PR for them and now would you believe he no longer has the inside scoop?! It’s hilarious.

The reason he doesn’t think this is happening is because he doesn’t have sources anymore, he has handlers.

hyperhello•37 minutes ago
I don’t know if he was captured and made to produce pro-Apple content. He does that on his own. But reading that did make me question why he wrote it. Why does he care?
adampunk•5 minutes ago
I don't think "made to" but as someone who followed his blog for many years, there was a before he did a special episode of his podcast with an apple VP and after. And clearly after he had a different perspective. It's IMO just not hard to imagine why. Every giant company has a procedure on how to manage journalists and every ex-journalist turned mouthpiece thinks they're too savvy for that.