When Marques put it on the first time, I thought his nose was going to break from it
You can blame Apple. Apple used to have a press office that made review materials available to a much wider array of journalists and personalities. That shifted in the last few years to seeking "relationships" with only key influencers as a way to essentially manage the reviews they get, like a politician who chooses to only talk to certain friendly reporters. There are exceptions—MKBHD has a large enough audience that he can balance fair criticisms against the control-freak tendencies of a company like Apple. But anyone else knows to either toe the line and embrace the relationship by speaking only to the faithful (iJustine in particular has given some really illluminating interviews about the "role" she plays to satisfy an Apple user audience that "struggles to see criticism as anything but an attack"), or buy the product themselves on the open market, speak more freely (and run the risk of having press credentials conveniently not offered to the next keynote speak), but give up the chance to have a video ready prior to release.
Apple is obsessive about not liking reviews without guardrails, and they were doubly so with AVP reviews. Makes me wonder what their own confidence is in the product.
That’s Joanna Stern in general. She’s usually snarky and melodramatic though generally positive about Apple products. She took a rowboat out to an island in her review of the iPhone 14 Pro with the Dynamic Island.I thought the WSJ one is a pretty balanced / realistic take, not at all like an "extension of Apple PR department"
I 100% believe thats exactly what it is. They must have intended it to be just that single strap design at first.the top strap seems like such an after thought designed to mitigate the substantial weight and front weight loading
I'd be surprised if it's any different than any other product. You could spec a Mac to nearly 10k and return it the same way as a 1000 buck MacBook Air.I wonder what the return process is like?
I didn’t. She was hovering her hands in the air to manually pinch things. It seems like she was unaware of the eyetracking and was trying to give her arms the most fatigue possible.I found the WSJ one pretty good.
The problem is creating a transparent OLED that is also capable of getting bright enough to pass through the required optics. Not to mention making the world around you bright enough to see through the optics. The Sony OLEDs that Apple is using can reach 5000 nits, but only about 20% of that makes it through to your eyes.Regaring the Verge's take. Yeah I think camera based mixed-reality is a temporary measure. Transparent OLED tech is getting pretty far and I would guess that is where we will end up.
Should be a bit cheaper without the external screen and less camera-tech, though it could become quite tricky to handle privacy. Maybe dual-layer OLED.
AND YOU CANNOT HOT SWAP BATTERIES!! 🤣🤣🤣 All of you out here thinking you are doing work or watching movies on airplanes, are going to be big mad with your preorders. I wonder what the return process is like?
I cackled like a witch when the camera cut to Nilay sat in front of an open MacBook Pro, poking at thin air to type.Just finished The Verge's review and Nilay did a fantastic job. He calls out a number of limitations and realities of the technology being used right now. Very much worth the time to hear his perspective.