No one asked for 1,000 songs in your pocket. Or a phone with a non-mechanical keyboard.
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'Apple Glass' Rumored to Start at $499, Support Prescription Lenses, and More
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No one asked for 1,000 songs in your pocket. Or a phone with a non-mechanical keyboard.
Yeah right. Like that “innovative” POS they called a keyboard for FIVE YEARS.
Not to mention the nearly-as-pathetic emoji bar they still hobble their so-called “pro” computers with.
Wow. Way to completely miss the point. Macintosh was a flop??
And with nine tenths of everything else on your list: Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it a flop.
Oh yes...the butterfly keyboard was really Apple doing it right where everyone else did it wrong. Many others are really copying that keyboard 😂 The Touchbar has also really caught on big time...
Exactly this.
Everyone saying this will flop doesn’t get Apple and why Apple is so successful.
Tesla vehicles record everything that happens around them. Nobody seems to care about that.
I presumed that Apple would distort faces and voices of people who did not consent to being recorded. Apple could require users to give some gesture or make some face to consent to being recorded - without that they're just an unintelligible blur (consider the episode of Black Mirror in which people can physically block each other.)
Unlike general phone access, I expect Apple would provide some means of retrieving the unobscured video, especially for the purpose of when your recording contains evidence of a crime, where obviously a criminal giving consent wouldn't be expected.
People largely complain because they don't want to be recorded going about their daily life without their consent. That already happens all the time with phones. Obscuring people gives their privacy back.
Also, I should mention cultural norms have majorly shifted since Google Glass. People under 20 don't seem to mind the idea that everything they do is filmed and will end up online... they grew up with everyone having phones recording and uploading all the time. They have no idea what privacy is.
Ok Ballmer
I didn’t say Apple gets everything right... No... correction... you’re right I did. So ok I take back the “every” parts of my comment and correct that to “nearly every”. Fair enough?
That said, you kinda missed my point. I was referring to whole products and markets. Those two examples you gave are two features, not entire products. That’s to say that your comments about those features are reasonable but they don’t negate my comments about products and markets.
So fixed version:
“Nearly every time Apple does any new product, they do it right and home run it where everyone else did it wrong and flopped.”
(For the record, I agree the Touch Bar mostly sucks. Personally I hate it and wish it was optional. Butterfly keyboard: I never had any problems with it in both 2017 and 2019 versions. The 2017 was too hard. The one in the 2019 15” is pretty decent. I’ve had that since August last year and it’s ok. But my colleague’s 16” with scissor KB is definitely better and I’m looking forward to getting mine later this week.)
Ballmer likely has more cash in his 23rd sock drawer than the total of your worldly assets so be careful who you insult
i dont care what it does as long as it is Apple and have prescription, I will buy it.
Ok....glad to hear you are a discerning consumer who examines potential purchases carefully. All the best.
Personally I'm hoping they can enable/disable the prescription in a smart substrate so I don't have to take them off when not at the screen.
...and of course I hope it's good
...and of course I hope it's good
As soon as those folks get old enough, they'll be wearing reading glasses
Might as well get a head start with Apple Glass. Maybe these will truly be "reading glasses" in that you could read a digital book projected in the lenses. That sounds odd, though, but cool if doable.
Imagine watching your favorite pr0n channel while sitting in a meeting. Or on a bus. Or while having dinner with your annoying in-laws. Bless me Apple for I will sin.
They do occasionally, but most of what they make is phenomenal. Latest gaff was air power.
You may not realize that's merely a component within a product, rather than a new product category (that would be classified as innovative or not).
That said, the butterfly keyboard in my MBP has been superb, in many ways, letting me type faster and more accurately, for more than three years.
I was skeptical of the AW at first but won't be on the glasses. It might be silly at first but maybe later one of those things we will want to have.
Another thing about skepticism that “anyone under VP level” would know about this: let’s not forget that months ago they had a company town hall at SJ Theater about the glasses strategy with LOTS (at least 1000) of people, as reported in November...
And let’s not forget about how harder is keeping secrets in the new work from home reality..
And let’s not forget about how harder is keeping secrets in the new work from home reality..
I feel like courts have consistently rules that there is no right to privacy in public.
I would prefer that there wasn't cameras recording all over the place, but that ship sailed a while ago with smart phones.
Now, I fully expect a future where everyone has recording devices attached to their person for safety.