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Apple Glasses Rumors Resurface as iPhone Supplier Tapped to Make Parts for Augmented Reality Product
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The Holy Trinity is coming together. Apple Watch + AirPods + AR Glasses.
As the computer on our wrist grows more and more powerful and as Siri takes over as a productive personal assistant that can take on more and more tasks, AppleWatch and AirPods will be able to replace a lot of what we use an iPhone for. What's missing is a way to capture and view photos, videos, and move towards a future of augmented reality. Apple Glasses will fill that missing role.
As the computer on our wrist grows more and more powerful and as Siri takes over as a productive personal assistant that can take on more and more tasks, AppleWatch and AirPods will be able to replace a lot of what we use an iPhone for. What's missing is a way to capture and view photos, videos, and move towards a future of augmented reality. Apple Glasses will fill that missing role.
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I think Apple might include bone conduction audio tech into the glasses as they rest above the ears, so no need for AirPods either?
A lot of things are changing at Apple. They might will come up with an Apple glass. Not sure though.
If I see any person looking at me wearing any types of these glasses I’ll rip them off there face.
I miss the days when Apple Computer made... well, computers.
The problem is that your definition of "computers" is outdated. Computers have continued to evolve, just like they did from rooms of hardware to an all in one Macintosh. Apple still makes computers. Pocket computers and wrist computers. Those are the reality today and wearable tech is the future of computers.
Do you often assault people who look at you? Do you attack people who are taking photos that accidentally catch you in the background?
I miss the days when Apple Computer made... well, computers.
Don't get me wrong; glasses or no glasses, the technology Apple and their peers continue to develop is stunning by any objective standard. No one alive 100 years ago could have imagined how fast the world would change in the coming century.
But computing used to be (and still can be, if you choose wisely) about empowering the individual and bringing down the barriers to creation and communication. As it stands now, "empowerment" is only a word used in lip-service, if that – a hollow shell scraped of its former meaning. Big business (of which Apple is certainly a part) has discovered that enough glitz and glamour will compel most of us to trade in real freedom for the illusion of it; and those of us who speak out against it are liable to be held as luddites, sophists, et cetera.
"Our civilization is wonderful, in certain spectacular and meretricious ways; wonderful in scientific marvels and inventive miracles; wonderful in material inflation, which it calls advancement, progress, and other pet names; wonderful in its spying-out of the deep secrets of Nature and its vanquishment of her stubborn laws; wonderful in its extraordinary financial and commerical achievements; wonderful in its hunger for money, and in its indifference as to how it is acquired; wonderful in the hitherto undreamed-of magnitude of its private fortunes and the prodigal fashion in which they are given away to institutions devoted to the public culture; wonderful in its exhibitions of poverty; wonderful in the surprises which it gets out of that great new birth, Organization, the latest and most potent creation and miracle-worker of the commercialized intellect, as applied in transportation systems, in manufactures, in systems of communication, in news-gathering, book-publishing, journalism; in protecting labor; in oppressing labor; in herding the national parties and keeping the sheep docile and usable; in closing the public service against brains and character; in electing purchasable legislatures, blatherskite Congresses, and city governments which rob the town and sell municipal protection to gamblers, thieves, prostitutes, and professional seducers for cash. It is a civilization which has destroyed the simplicity and repose of life; replaced its contentment, its poetry, its soft romance-dreams and visions with the money-fever, sordid ideals, vulgar ambitions, and the sleep which does not refresh; it has invented a thousand useless luxuries, and turned them into necessities; it has created a thousand vicious appetites and satisfies none of them; it has dethroned God and set up a shekel in His place."-Mark TwainBut I digress. I don't wish to hijack this topic, merely offer my three cents.
Last I checked Apple still makes computers. Looking at the past with rose colored glasses are we?
Yes, Apple obviously still makes personal computers, as they are commonly referred to. And yes, the term "computer" can refer to nearly any programmable piece of technology: phones, tablets, calculators, et cetera.
I wouldn't say my definition of computers is outdated, so much as it is different from the prevailing connotation of the term; although, as I indicate above, I freely grant that the definition encompasses quite a lot. (I'm no luddite.)
You say that wearable tech is the future of computers, and you are very likely right to a large degree. However, many of us seem to forget that the future is largely up to us; inasmuch as the products of human industry are a logical consequence of human decisions to make them. We may be swept up in the tide of "progress" toward some technological objective, but we mustn't forget that it is our choices that bring us there. This means that the future we arrive at will always be one of our own making, and if we find it is not to our liking – morally or practically – than we will only have ourselves to blame. (At the same time, this means that it will always be within our power to change, if only as it concerns our individual self.)
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No, but I'm looking at the future with a critical eye.
