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Apple Smart Glasses: Everything We Know About Apple's Answer to Meta Ray-Bans
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The same ones Apple wants to partner with, yes.
Apple as always is late to the game and the phrase of "late but doing right" that's BS.
Apple is lead by old bags, Apple is out of gas, the innovation is dead. Meta Just hired a top AI guy from Apple and Apple didn't even bothered matching the guys pay, Jeff Williams is leaving too; "retiring" right. Apple is in Chaos right now and lots of people are staying for now but as soon as other tech giants level Apple in security and optimize OS, which that will be soon, people will jump.
Apple is lead by old bags, Apple is out of gas, the innovation is dead. Meta Just hired a top AI guy from Apple and Apple didn't even bothered matching the guys pay, Jeff Williams is leaving too; "retiring" right. Apple is in Chaos right now and lots of people are staying for now but as soon as other tech giants level Apple in security and optimize OS, which that will be soon, people will jump.
All that will matter is if customers stop buying their products. That’s the only metric that will count.
Wait five years and if their sales and so share price crashes, then you’ll be proven right.
If that doesn’t happen, you’ll be proven wrong.
At this stage, though, polemics won’t make any difference either way.
Why did you quote me?
(mistake?)
I made no assertions or predictions to prove "right" or "wrong", that I'm aware of.
Which of these 10 features is not available on an iPhone?
Yep. He’s very “uncanny valley”, but he’s an actual human being, which is very very wierd. It being “played for laughs” doesn’t make it less weird at this point.
I randomly met Billy Joel in a pub in Dublin about 25 years ago (maybe 30 years ago? - it was in Grogan’s - if anyone here knows the pub you’ll understand why it’s not unbelievable how normal people can bump into famous people there) and it was similiar He didn’t look real even though he was in front of me and I was looking at him with my own eyes. In today’s terms, he looked like they had overdone the photoshop filters, but it was real life.
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I feel like they will have 3 products going concurrently, with AVP, a AV SE/Air product, and lastly Apple Vision, which is what I’d imagine they name this. I can see them intentionally making it so you can’t record people, or at the very least, a green light would indicate when you are.
Sounds like at least 20 good "product was cancelled" articles we'll be able to comment on eventually!
Not exactly... because Meta is creepy and doesn't integrate as well with Apple services.
I want smart glasses. But I'm not going to buy something from Meta. AirPods didn't anything really different than any other bluetooth headphones that were out. Yet they just worked so well will iPhones and were designed by apple so they took off.
AirPods don't have a screen.
It fits perfectly with Apple's "it's 3 things" pattern they used for iPhone and Apple Watch.
- it's a [phone, watch, glasses]
Product with a form factor that people already know and often want/need. - a [widescreen iPod, communication device, open ear headphones]
Another thing people already want/need - and a [internet communication devices, fitness tracker, first person hands free camera]
Unique thing that this product can do better than other products.
agree about having a spread of products covering different form factors and uses.
But a camera that can't take photos or videos of people would be pretty useless in my opinion. That's the majority of the reasons I take photos and video.
Apple showcased a dad taking videos of his kids as if wearing a bulky headset was totally normal. Spatial video makes some much sense for this product. Something that realistically a person could be wearing and ready to record a cute or candid memory of friends and family.
Yeah you are probably right. It would definitely have some kind of indicator light though.
What? You don't see how clearly obvious the value is. You mean there's a thing people already find valuable enough to go get special setups and you can't understand why someone would want that built into another product they need?
This is like saying "I don't know why someone would need a phone, an mp3 player, and a computer in one device. You can go out and buy all three of those things separately! - So Lazy"
I've decided that, if priced reasonably and a style I enjoy (or partnered with a mainstream brand), I could be interested in this type of product for my runs, where my phone is tucked away, but I do like to get a few pics each time.
Normally this requires stopping and pulling out the phone from my backpack.
I will need RX options though also.
It all might get way way too expensive if it's an offering from Apple though, who knows.
Normally this requires stopping and pulling out the phone from my backpack.
I will need RX options though also.
It all might get way way too expensive if it's an offering from Apple though, who knows.
I was looking at the Meta smart glasses and they were like $379 which is reasonable then when I added my prescription lenses, it took the price up to over $1000 so hopefully Apple will figure something to work this out better than Meta otherwise this isn’t gonna work for people with prescription glasses. What would be really cool is if your eyecare provider could just actually update your prescription lenses via software update or through an app.
In a country where a president that is off in so many ways has been normalised (re-elected), expect the wildest things to become normal. Camera moving from smartphone to glasses >> definitely gonna happen
Nailed it! Will do my best to avoid this tech as they’ve colonized enough of our existence.
7 is sooooo literal. Apple has not found anything interesting to do with them
Now seriously, unless they open as an accessory that you can use with other non-Apple devices (which of course it won't happen), then I'm not in. I would never buy an Apple product that forces me to have another Apple device to being able to use it.
Going outside and to the beach with just Apple Watch and RB Metas is great! I know iPhone is taking better photos/videos, I know Airpods Pro sound better, but it's compromise I am taking gladly.
Well Apple knows that its fans dont want innovation because they can't handle the toothing-pains that come with innovation. People mostly gave Samsung pass on the early folds; if Apple had done that the #somethinggate outrage would have eclipsed the jokes Samsung mostly received. If Apple was first to market with an LLM base AI can you imaging the pearlclutching over privacy, content training, and hallucinations. We would never hear the end over how bad that AI was. That recent iPad ad is a great example where Apple was accused of reducing all creative fiends into digital AI.
To sum up, Apple cant take chances because no one would tolerate that from Apple like they do with other companies.
THAT is why Apple has to wait for more mature technology.
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