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Apple Vision Pro: for me, epic failure
DiTBho:
As usual, not only are the materials and workmanship with which it is built NOT worth the money spent, but there is no attempt to prevent them from ruining.
A bit like the disgusting iPod Shuffle headphones, "cool" as soon as you take them out of the box, then they become rubbish (easy to make dirty, difficult to clean, easy to damage when you try to clean) with daily use and you have to replace them.
DiTBho:
Apple Newton : Apple iPhone = Apple Lisa : Apple Machintosh
Apple Newton : Apple iPhone = Apple Vision Pro : (x)?
what is (x)? :o :o :o
Whatever (x) will be, my vibes are, in short, the Apple Vision Pro is here to test the interest for (x)
ebastler:
--- Quote from: DiTBho on February 07, 2024, 09:32:54 am ---Apple Newton : Apple iPhone = Apple Lisa : Apple Machintosh
--- End quote ---
I don't think the above equation quite pans out.
With the Macintosh, Apple did indeed follow up on the Lisa quickly, and managed to secure at least a part of the "personal computer for non-techies" market. In contrast, Apple lost the PDA market entirely to other players, who came out with much simpler/lighter/cheaper (and less capable) products. That lasted for well over a decade, until the iPhone came back into that market via the "iPod + phone + web device" back door.
DiTBho:
... after a few days of "wow effect", Ania is already thinking of reselling the device for 4400 USD.
+400 USD to cover part of the fly return ticket, 2 days in hotel, etc.
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I would say "expected" :-DD
Why? well, because frankly it will take at least another 5-10 years to develop lightweight frame "glasses".
I don't know if "all in one" like the Vision Pro, or with a "dumb video terminal" which receives a framebuffer (compressed H265?) from a processor hidden perhaps in a bag, or in the backpack together with the batteries.
Otherwise there is also the question of batteries! They must take up less space, be light and be able to store a lot of energy.
The lenses of the (X) glasses must be of the same type used on military aircraft, semi-transparent, high contrast, high resolution, able to project images.
All impossible things with current technology, just as it was impossible to develop an "Apple iPhone" in the days of the "Apple Newton" :-//
DiTBho:
--- Quote from: ebastler on February 07, 2024, 09:44:26 am ---With the Macintosh, Apple did indeed follow up on the Lisa quickly, and managed to secure at least a part of the "personal computer for non-techies" market.
--- End quote ---
In my opinion, the Macintosh differs from Lisa in a number of tricks with which they made it economical: from ~10K USD to ~3K USD
Starting from the removal of the MMU, to the flat-filesystem, whereas between Newtown and iPhone there was basically not enough CPU power, because the StrongARMs of the time were not able to handle the "native-handwriting"(1) recognition algorithms, which was supposed to be *THE* killer feature.
(there is even an Simpson episode, making fun of it)
The point is that either they are technological reasons for the state of the art of the technology available, which is not enough, or they are cost reasons, that is, there would be the technology to do it, but it would cost so much that it would only be of interest to a few.
I didn't specify the nature of the ":" operator, so either reason works in the equations.
(1) vs user forced to learn "Graphiti", developed by Palm, for PalmOS-devices.
I remember, it took more than two months just to learn and train to write with the stylus in the way Graphiti required, but in the end it was a stretch that made the device economical (300USD (Palm) vs 2000USD (Newtown))
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