Apple Focusing on Sports, Gaming, and Fitness Apps for AR/VR Headset

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

This is the first Kudos devise from Apple for a long while, whilst expensive, it's surprising what people pay for Kudos, I expect Apple to knock it out the park and sell at least 10 million 😊

God I hope. The VR community really needs Apple Reality to succeed

 

[Macalway]

This is the first Kudos devise from Apple for a long while, whilst expensive, it's surprising what people pay for Kudos, I expect Apple to knock it out the park and sell at least 10 million 😊

What?

Is some meaning I'm missing? Just curious. It's device also. Maybe a translator? Probably.

 

[nt5672]

A device create to solve a problem we don't have. And give us need we also don't need.
Instead of innovation in the iPhone let's do this to get more money!

The only innovation left for the iPhone is to get it all moved over to the watch and ditch the phone.

 

[Macalway]

The only innovation left for the iPhone is to get it all moved over to the watch and ditch the phone.

Never happen. Simply because you can't stare at a watch for 8 hours straight. Your arm would fall off. Then again you have two!

 

[4odomi]

Why are people rooting so hard for this to fail?

They are NEGS (short for negative people) and most don't understand the technology and how different it will be, to what is out already.
For eg; you can ski in goggles, but you can't exercise in goggles 🤣

 

[Rogifan]

Reminds me of the 1st gen Apple Watch keynote where they spent so much time focusing on apps. The only Apple Watch app I consistently use is the workout app.

 

[nt5672]

Never happen. Simply because you can't stare at a watch for 8 hours straight. Your arm would fall off. Then again you have two!

I spend less than 30 min/day on my iPhone, so this is a foreign concept, but, now that you mention it, it does seem like the norm.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Reminds me of the 1st gen Apple Watch keynote where they spent so much time focusing on apps. The only Apple Watch app I consistently use is the workout app.

That's the Apple first gen curse for ya. It takes a generation or two for a new Apple Product category to find it's footing and really see mass appeal. People forget the iPad didn't kick off until the iPad 2 a year later when it finally got cameras.

 

[Rogifan]

Why are people rooting so hard for this to fail?

What problem is this solving?

 

[4odomi]

Because it's a distraction and waste of resources that could be better spent on improving products and services that Apple already has. They've neglected bug fixing and actual improvements to take on something that they clearly aren't prepared to do while ignoring customers who've already spent thousands of dollars on products that actually exist and serve a worthwhile purpose.

So,
tell us all, which bugs they haven't fixed???
Because, I have an iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBook, AirPods Pro and HomePod 2 and they all work fine for me 😊

 

[Macalway]

You know what's really scary? I'll bet you Apple's presentation is so slick people will actually want this stupid thing and buy it!

Crazy, I know.

 

[Rogifan]

That's the Apple first gen curse for ya. It takes a generation or two for a new Apple Product category to find its footing and really see mass appeal. People forget the iPad didn't kick off until the iPad 2 a year later when it finally got cameras.

I think this is more about Apple having an app-centric view of everything. I believe the tagline for 2010 WWDC was ‘there’s an app for that’. So they’ll release this headset at WWDC and expect developers to come up with use cases for it.

 

[wilhoitm]

That's the Apple first gen curse for ya. It takes a generation or two for a new Apple Product category to find it's footing and really see mass appeal. People forget the iPad didn't kick off until the iPad 2 a year later when it finally got cameras.

The iPhone too a lot of time too. People forget the iPhone did not even have an App Store when it launched. The iPhone did not even have copy & paste or even multi-tasking until a while later!

 

[4odomi]

Never happen. Simply because you can't stare at a watch for 8 hours straight. Your arm would fall off. Then again you have two!

It won't happen, because APPLE isn't in the product consolidation business 🤣

 

[4odomi]

It needs to focus almost entirely on gaming. At least at first. The video game market is the one that is heavy into early adoption. Which is what they need for this to take off.

If it focuses on gaming only, it will fail for sure.
I personally think, there will be huge waiting time, because there will be millions who want the first new Apple product in 10 years

 

[Kierkegaarden]

Nobody outside of Apple knows what this product will look like, what it will cost, or what the focus will be.

Anyone that is speculating on the failure of a product based on made up or unconfirmed information is a fool.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

The iPhone too a lot of time too. People forget the iPhone did not even have an App Store when it launched. The iPhone did not even have copy & paste or even multi-tasking until a while later!

The first gen iPod used FireWire and could only be used on macOS. Wasn't until a year later that Windows support was added.

Apple Card at launch didn't even report to credit bureaus. Wasn't until a year later they fixed that.

Even the Macintosh in 1984 faced the first gen curse. Remember the Mac took a while to catch on and it caused Steve Jobs to get fired. We forget how much of a mess of spaghetti code Classic Mac OS was until Steve came back and introduced the iMac and Mac OS X.

 

[zubikov]

There's only one type of media that can save this headset. I won't say it, but you know what it is

It saved VHS, and Blu-ray. Can it save VR?

 

[cicalinarrot]

This is going to bomb so hard.

Or maybe it’ll be a hit and you’ll be ridiculed for this comment like people who thought the iPhone was gonna fail!
(Ok, I actually agree with you. But I sincerely hope we’re all wrong…)

 

[4odomi]

I’ll hold my opinion until it’s revealed. This may be something I feel like I don’t want right now but may have a change of heart once I see what it could do.

First Common sense comment on here

 

[lovehateapple]

MLB in VR on Apple TV anyone?

Eventually it will be all sports, not just MLB and MLS. Looking forward to virtually attending the Masters! 😇🤞

 

[DelayedGratificationGene]

I hope they don't use the same processor for four years only changing its name. Then again, I don't really care about this thing, so...

So….then why are you really wasting your time here?

 

[4odomi]

Cut to next year and everyone is watching porn.

Very possible with side loading 🤣

 

[wilhoitm]

The first gen iPod used FireWire and could only be used on macOS. Wasn't until a year later that Windows support was added.

Apple Card at launch didn't even report to credit bureaus. Wasn't until a year later they fixed that.

Even the Macintosh in 1984 faced the first gen curse. Remember the Mac took a while to catch on and it caused Steve Jobs to get fired. We forget how much of a mess of spaghetti code Classic Mac OS was until Steve came back and introduced the iMac and Mac OS X.

Yes they threw out all of the existing Mac OS code and started over using the NeXT operating system that was created when Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple from when he started his own spin off called Next Computer. It has not always been pretty. However, Apple is great at course correcting!

 

[lovehateapple]

This is going to bomb so hard.

If it sells a million units or anything close to it, apple will consider it a success. Curious what your over / under is? I think a million is reasonably possible worldwide.