Timo… Tim is that you?!I don't just "put up with it." The AVP puts me into a state of productivity for the work I do unlike any device I've ever used. I guess I "put up with it" like I put up with the helmet I use when I ride my motorcycle or the bulky, heavy and hot suit I wear on long-distance motorcycle trips (said helmet and suit cost me about the same as the base model AVP). Your insistence that because it isn't something you need or want doesn't mean the product doesn't have value.
I routinely wear my AVP for 3-4 hours at a time. No pain involved; or at least none worth mentioning in comparison to the benefit I receive. Again, much like the helmet and suit I wear on my motorcycle. And the battery is such a non-issue that is only ever mentioned by people who have no use for the AVP and have thus not spent any significant time with it.
This isolation is central to my use case for the device. That you don't have that need says nothing about those of us who do and therefore find value in the AVP.
I've never once felt any nausea using the AVP. What length of time have you used it to make this statement?
Perhaps limited in funcionality for YOU. For me, there's no tool that does what the AVP does for me.
You don't need it or want it. That's the end of what you can contribute to the discussion. That you seemingly don't allow that there are others who feel differently, who have different needs, is a problem with your entire point.
But seriously we’ve got over a dozen of these devices and I just showed this to some of the folks in our dev team since we’re crunching tonight. I think nearly everyone takes issue with your point on productivity. “Seems unlikely” and “I’d challenge that statement for specifics” are what they floated back when I shared the screenshot of your response. The fit is subjective but I mean all the other stuff falls squarely in the category of you do you. Specifically no one on the team will argue about its chops for consuming content. But getting real work done and (in our case) making enterprise productivity apps, well therein lies the rub. The dev tools are inadequate compared to their sibling platforms. I think it’s a total cheat and an admission the unit is rudderless that they had to bake in a Mac escape hatch to offer some semblance of productivity. It can’t stand on its own and all we have are promises of what it may some day be capable of. To be clear I want it to succeed but it’s disingenuous to claim at this point that anyone is getting serious work done. This is like an immersive video iPod with apps but it’s not for coding, editing, office tasks or even managing files in thoughtful ways.
Edit: on Tim’s interview about using it daily, I’ll just respond by quoting George Costanza: “it’s not a lie if you believe it”
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