Exactly. Tim takes bad product management decisions (or manages poorly) one by one: AI, Vision Pro, Liquid Glass, etc. It's just he terribly lacks skills and intuition in this area, that's all. He's great at managing existing product portfolio, thou. iPhones offer from this year is just amazing in my opinion. I'm not buying anything only because I hate Liquid Glass. Hopefully they'll change it to something usable and visually acceptable (no borders, less transparency, etc.).
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is this satire? you need a live feed in your face to read someone's facial expressions? 'this person is about to punch you - take your stupid glasses off NOW'.
I think they tried to do too much with the Vision Pro. Its strength is as a content consumption device for your home, great for watching movies and playing games. I would have loved a version 2 focussed on this.
When you are out and about, wearing a Vision Pro makes you look an idiot and cuts you off from other people. Smart glasses are definitely the way forward in this respect.
When you are out and about, wearing a Vision Pro makes you look an idiot and cuts you off from other people. Smart glasses are definitely the way forward in this respect.
Moving engineers from one product to another instead of hiring the correct amount of engineers, tells you that Tim Cook is only interested in making money.
I know people can be stubborn in their views and loyalties, but I try again. Following Steve Jobs’ death, Tim Cook was an excellent steward of Apple. Financially, he took the company to unprecedented heights, and herein lies the root of the unwavering loyalty of many who became rich under Tim Cook. But all good things must come to an end, and the reign of Tim Cook has lasted too long now. Ultimately, the recent stumbles of Apple are his fault. The time for a new CEO at Apple is overdue.
... for better, or worse. I hate some Tim's decisions but he has one great achievement - privacy. During Jobs era this aspect was not crucial yet. Now we live in privacy terror world. Yet, he still sells privacy as one of Apple products (Zuckerberg hates Cook). I think many people underestimate this. I can easily imagine scenario where new CEO chooses "standard" way (Google, Meta) - quick progress at the cost of quality (hallucinating AI), privacy as revenue source, etc.
I'm even ready to sacrifice (yes, whatever) using iOS26 with LiquidGlass if Tim continues to stay strong for privacy.
That’s not practical and why literally no one is doing this with headsets.
This defies HCI computer science. That’s like believing a portable handheld can drive 5090 graphics.
A typical phone chip is inadequate on its own to power a headset without draining its battery fast.
VR expert David Heaney said it best when causal tech readers constantly bring this up:
Meta’s $10,000 glasses couldn’t even catch up to the Vision Pro’s screen capabilities across several core metrics for a reason no fault to their engineers.
The technology isn’t there.
You’re also wrong on price; the Vision Pro’a screen alone is ~$1200-$1500. It’s premium HDR & its other material still puts the device above $2000.
That makes sense and is a fair price:
Poor PPI 5K2K OLED monitors without premium HDR cost $2000 and portable 4K monitors with Dolby Vision cost $3000.
Apple’s baseline prosumer display is $2500. Glasses-free spatial monitors cost $2000-$8000k for many years now.
It’s baseless entitlement and unrealistic pipe dream to think it would be cheaper than such prices.
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What about a wired connection?
Already needs one for power ... maybe make a Dock for your iPhone that also has the AVP power built into it?
You would need essentially need a dock or a dedicated hardware specifically for spatial computing on the device to reduce the battery drain
A hard ask either way than a standalone as far as use with a phone—especially making everyone pay to accommodate hardware they may not ever use that is also going to add quite a bit to the cost of the phone.
It’s very different than adding ray-tracing and tensor cores to a GPU as such tech directly complement the core purposes of parallel computing and graphics in the first place.
Given how seamless and invaluable it is to merely glance on Macs to display them on the headset (often in more productive ways via the Virtual Display mode’s 5K2K 32:9/21:9 variants) and seamlessly continue using apps independently on disconnect (invaluable to offload complementary apps not take up resources on Macs), I don’t see them launching such a non-standalone for use with phones.
For on-the-go spatial computing, it far makes more sense to be done in glasses form factor and wirelessly. Similarly Meta’s very compromised variant of their original smart glasses with display I recently demoed and ordered isn’t tethered to a phone by cord as well.
It’s also not really safe or ideal based on my experience with my non-standalone XReal smart glasses for my XR dev/creative explorations.
Having to tether to a phone I can MAYBE see making sense to simultaneously charge the device for convenience and maybe output specific higher-end display settings.
That might be reasonable for a Vision Pro and smart glasses hybrid.
Regardless, you and others weirded out by something potentially happening vs actually happening when there’s very clear recording indicators.
Being global products there’s various countries that have and will correct appropriately any privacy issues that such devices will continually force them to do as their constituents demands.
Japan and other countries are why there are recording indicators.
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Smart Glasses is just a fad and will fade way in the next couple of years, like the AI fad.
Apple has decided to stop work on a cheaper, lighter version of the $3,499 Vision Pro to instead focus its resources on smart glasses, reports Bloomberg. Apple wants to speed up development on a glasses product to better compete with Meta.
There were rumors that Apple was developing a a much lighter, more affordable "Vision Air" for launch in 2027, but Apple is now transitioning engineers from that project to its smart glasses project.
Apple is working on a set of smart glasses that will rival Meta's AI-equipped Ray-Bans. The glasses will include cameras, microphones, and AI capabilities. Apple could introduce the glasses as soon as next year, and then launch them in 2027.
There won't be a display in the first version of the glasses, but Apple is developing another model that will include an integrated display. Apple wanted to debut the version with a display in 2028, but it is now aiming to speed up development because Meta just recently announced the Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses.
The Meta-Ray Ban Display glasses include a full-color, high-resolution display in one of the lenses. The display is able to display messages, photos, and information from Meta AI. Meta's glasses look similar to regular glasses despite the added screen, and they are the first step toward Meta's "Orion" augmented reality glasses. Meta unveiled its AR glasses last year, showing off thick pair of glasses with dual AR displays. Both Apple and Meta are aiming to launch lightweight augmented reality glasses in the future.
Meta's Ray-Ban Display
Meta has come out with several variations of the Meta Ray-Bans since 2023, and the company has a more advanced AI product than Apple does. Apple's smart glasses will rely on AI and voice-based commands, which will require the next-generation version of Siri.
Apple delayed Siri after the assistant didn't meet expectations for promised Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18, but an updated version of Siri built on new architecture is expected in spring 2026.
Apple plans to release its first smart glasses with multiple material and frame options, turning them into a fashion accessory. Buyers will be able to choose their preferred color and frame style. The glasses will have an Apple-designed chip inside, but will still be reliant on a connected iPhone. Other features will include cameras, microphones, and health tracking capabilities.
While work on a lighter version of the Vision Pro has been paused for now, Apple still plans to refresh the current model with an M5 chip later this year.
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AI isn’t a fad has always been an integral component of conversation UI interactions being more sufficiently supported.
Big data applications in various fields, various patternized tasks, and various mature aggregation use cases of data aren’t going away.
That’s like saying ray-tracing is a fad when such computationally expensive technology were always emerging.
It finally has happened this century and decade.
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That is what you believe, but today’s AI can replace journalist because they do not do anything anyway. AI is just automation and just not that impressive especially when it cannot even get facts correct.
What are you talking about? Apple canceled the car several years before those tariffs. Tariffs had nothing to do with the car
Where’d you get that confused?
Apple officially canceled their car project in early 2024. Not long after Biden announced there would be a 100% import tariff on electric cars manufactured and imported from China.
No... The Biden administration was taking about imposing 100% electric cars manufactured in China in 2023. Apple killed their EV in February 2024 knowing they were coming. The tariffs officially went into effect in May of 2024.
AI isn’t about journalism, being 100% correct (prediction-pattern can’t but can approximate, or seem that way over time) or accommodating specific industries…
It’s a necessary, timelessly-worked-on breakthrough to allow several device categories and human-interactions be more commercially viable as well as unblock such things allowing several timeless computer science / UX problems being progressed.
It’s been a “wake me up when it’s here, and maybe I’ll care” thing that has taken mainstream and tech illiterate folk by surprised who have a heightened sensitivity of the impact on human labor now that it can dramatically shift the lives of both ordinary and white color professionals.
Combined with social media and the rampant unchecked paranoia and false narratives that can be allowed to proliferate through it, we have people making pointless bold armchair-analyst takes on whether it’s good, X, or Y for tech that is fundamentally always imperfect for deliberate reaction, derision, and informal validation.
It’s not a fad considering mainstream industries that have always been applicable to the tech maturing able to use it on their core systems, make it a mandatory skill for their workforce, made the biggest breakthrough in resolving the most longstanding bottlenecks in some of the biggest industries (i.e. real-time ray-tracing in gaming as well as several stiff for security and medical fields) and being a core means of meeting their business goals.
Its integration in engineering and design is absolutely not changing making it not a fad absolutely.
Nope, it is a fad and it will fade into the background. Sure it will be integrated where it makes sense and actually provides benefit, but generative AI is a tool for lazy people that do not think, like journalists.
Are you saying the most productive engineers, designers, and other professionals dependent on computers are lazy in a bad way for using AI? Also lazy isn’t even a bad trait for such professions towards optimal efficiency.
Engineering has acronyms such as DRY (don’t repeat yourself) and etc on the subject matter. AI allows them and other professionals in all kinds of fields focus on more complex problems for the better.
Many jobs and computing tasks are inherently pattern and predictive towards AI always being inevitably incorporated as expected by HCI complliter science for decades.
Mainstream audiences are finally electing to pay attention.
Similar with spatial computing in which glasses and headsets will be more preferred means to do a wide variety of computing tasks than traditional computing—that’s always been the case bottlenecked by technology and human resource constraints.
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Yes, you use generative AI you are lazy. I have never heard of the accronym that made up. Using automation is being smart, but only for repeated tasks. With generative AI you can replace journalists as they do not add anything because they do not think. I avoid the use of all acronyms because they do not provide clarity.
If it’s a fad then its one billions are being spent on. And it remains Apples biggest challenge or talk about glasses and Vision Pro isn’t worth having. Same with iPhone fold or other future products.
It’s still a bit mind boggling they’d even announce it as a coming soon to some pointless minor update in iOS. Of course it’s because it’s vaporware and it worked selling iPhone 16. Rinse. Repeat. But tick tock.
Currently Apple is looking for someone to lead its AI team. Think about it. Meta has poached its ai talent. Apple is currently searching and hoping to hire their ai leader. Currently they let the head of Vision Pro take over but he lacks experience. None of the internal candidates at Apple are suitable.
So now it’s an external search RIGHT NOW for Apple to find an AI leader to lead an ai team that doesn’t include anyone qualified enough to be promoted. This is the state of Apple. 2025. But don’t worry Siri ai 2.0 an llm based next gen ai rivaling ChatGPT is coming soon as an iOS 26.4 update to your iPhones. It’s gonna be epic. lol.
It’s still a bit mind boggling they’d even announce it as a coming soon to some pointless minor update in iOS. Of course it’s because it’s vaporware and it worked selling iPhone 16. Rinse. Repeat. But tick tock.
Currently Apple is looking for someone to lead its AI team. Think about it. Meta has poached its ai talent. Apple is currently searching and hoping to hire their ai leader. Currently they let the head of Vision Pro take over but he lacks experience. None of the internal candidates at Apple are suitable.
So now it’s an external search RIGHT NOW for Apple to find an AI leader to lead an ai team that doesn’t include anyone qualified enough to be promoted. This is the state of Apple. 2025. But don’t worry Siri ai 2.0 an llm based next gen ai rivaling ChatGPT is coming soon as an iOS 26.4 update to your iPhones. It’s gonna be epic. lol.
ChatGPT is not better than an enhanced search engine. The AI models are just a statistical algorithm that determines what is most written given the input data in correlation with what the user has requested in the prompt. There is no intelligence in Artificial Intelligence. The only thing that Artificial Intelligence will tell you is what others have posted on the public internet without any consideration to reality what is actual truth.
The branding of so much of this stuff as "Intelligence" is quite the gaslight indeed.
It is because most people do not understand what it actually is, nor would invest the time to understand it. Most of what is now called AI is just automation.