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AppleVision Pro Hype! What Launch Was Ever This Exciting
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This is what I imagine people look like what they say smug nonsense like this on this forum.I'm guessing you do not have a preorder?
I mean I didn't buy the iPhone at launch like the majority of us didn't for various reasons (to expensive, not available in our area, was on another carrier, etc, etc) but that didn't mean people weren't super hyped about it. The only ones I see hyped for the AVP are the people buying it, and some of them are even clueless and making threads like "Why does this $4000 head computer need a killer app to justify the purchase?" lol
For the non-US countries it’s convenient that the US is getting it first. At the time it is released in other countries, where will be plenty of information to make a more informed decision on whether to buy it.
Shouldn’t that have been a lesson?
Aren’t you a bit spooked exposing yourself on a forum such as this, I mean who knows who may be watching from that camera on your phone or computer that you are using.🤣
When BluRay was new, there was also another competing standard... DVD-HD, I believe it was called. We were really torn, trying to decide which player to get. We decided to get the unit that could do both, I believe. But BluRay won out. Now we have a ton of DVD's and BlueRay discs and we never watch them. Just stream stuff via Disney+ or Netflix or whatever. Weird how things change.Shouldn’t that have been a lesson?
Funny... my laptop (that I'm on right now) doesn't HAVE a camera. And it's a gaming Asus laptop (ROG Zephyrus G)! As for my iPhone SE... not too worried... it doesn't have FaceID and I never enabled TouchID. If the day ever comes where biometric identification becomes a REQUIREMENT (like with the VisionPro) to use the device, I'll switch to something else. That simple. I will NOT become part of "the system". I am an individual. I am unique. I... am...
#%@#!@@#!ADFSBDFBA@#$@@1 [Individual intercepted and transported to Unitary Adjunct Matrix 10478]
"We are Borg... resistance is futile. Your individual and unique distinctiveness will be added to our collective."
😁
You sound just like my best friend🤣. Truly fun to debate this stuff with him over a few beers.🍻
While I'm glad Apple is entering the VR space, the launch of the HTC Vive was more exciting for me.
I mean, part of that is because I preordered the Vive, and not the Vision Pro.
The other reason is that the Vive actually had apps that let me do new kinds of things in a interactive 3D space, while pretty much the only software Apple has shown for the Vision Pro is floating 2D windows.
I mean, part of that is because I preordered the Vive, and not the Vision Pro.
The other reason is that the Vive actually had apps that let me do new kinds of things in a interactive 3D space, while pretty much the only software Apple has shown for the Vision Pro is floating 2D windows.
Look at my sig. Last flip phone I owned was a Tracfone (Motorola) before I got my first smart phone (an iPhone 4S) back when the iPhone 4S was released. My wife got the iPhone 4, but I thought the Siri feature was so cool... I splurged. Little did I realize that Siri was taking all my inputs and sending them to Apple. But that is the ONLY biometric they have of mine. I don't use Siri very much these days, because she is more often "blond" than "brunette", if you know what I mean. I ask her to find a place "near me" and she will give results that are in Tucson or Phoenix (I live in Sierra Vista, AZ)!
Come on, they have more than floating 2d windows, did you forget about the dinosaur experience.😉
Saw them. Heard of them. But never used one. My first cell phone was a Tracfone ("candy bar" style) and later a Tracfone flip phone (Motorola). My wife's first cellphone was a Nokia from Sprint. Tiny monochrome screen. You could play "Snake" on it. My first smart phone was an iPhone 4S, then an iPhone 5C (the last non-TouchID phone; I still miss it (it was blue)), then an iPhone 6S, and now an iPhone SE. I'll eventually (be forced to) have to upgrade again (just like with my 6S, which was obsoleted) and it will probab ly be a FaceID iPhone. But as long as I don't HAVE to use the biometric feature, I'll keep buying iPhones, as I am familiar with the UI and prefer it over Android devices.You must be using my first cellphone - analog UHF brick cellular back in the 1980s:
It was called HD-DVD. I remember because I bought it thinking that Microsoft's lead with the Xbox 360 was going to help usher it in, and at the time I was somewhat of an evangelist for Microsoft (hence my username reflecting my old project back in 2004) it of course died out, but if I can get Blu-Ray I will. The march towards no physical media is incredibly worrying and it will (and has) had consequences in the past, present, and future. I feel like it will be in style to own physical media again here in a few kind of similar to how record sales are stronger now than they have since well, before I was born, but we will have to see.
Then I must really be old and dated myself.
Before the Motorola Dynatac phones that were full duplex, battery powered; my very first exposure to a cell phone was a Western Mobile operator assisted mobile phone.
It ran on a half duplex - when I spoke, I could not hear the other party and vice versa. It used a push to talk handset and had to call LA Cellular operator to patch you in.
EU side loading might finally mean emulator support for iOS which for me is the final nail in the coffin for ever buying an Android phone. I’ve ran PPSSPP on my iPhone 13 and it runs smooth as butter but having to re-sign apps every 7 days is tiresome.
Now it’s unlikely the UK will get the side loading as we are not in the EU, however Apple doesn’t have a massive stake in the UK economy (unlike Ireland) and it makes more sense for business is the government promotes as much parity as it can so you never know!
And it’s pretty easy to import an EU iPhone into the UK anyway. That gets me pretty excited!
Now it’s unlikely the UK will get the side loading as we are not in the EU, however Apple doesn’t have a massive stake in the UK economy (unlike Ireland) and it makes more sense for business is the government promotes as much parity as it can so you never know!
And it’s pretty easy to import an EU iPhone into the UK anyway. That gets me pretty excited!
Reposting here what I’ve previously wrote as this shares my feelings and those of the many likes of other MR members:
In my decades of being an Apple customer, never have I been less interested in a new product. I don’t see how this can increase productivity as it seems like a product geared towards content consumption; and we already have enough of those time-wasting devices in our lives…(though I’m sure it will change the way thousands of porn addicts feed their addiction.)
And it’s priced like a niche product for tech reviewers and geeks.
In my decades of being an Apple customer, never have I been less interested in a new product. I don’t see how this can increase productivity as it seems like a product geared towards content consumption; and we already have enough of those time-wasting devices in our lives…(though I’m sure it will change the way thousands of porn addicts feed their addiction.)
And it’s priced like a niche product for tech reviewers and geeks.
OSX, iPhone 1, iMac, iPad 1, and Mac Studio were more interesting launches for me personally. Sure, I think AVP is cool, and I'd love to have one, but the price level and lack of productivity apps and Apples lack of focus on it, has ensured I have no real interest in it. Perhaps AVP5 Mini at an affordable level is where I jump on the train.
Why do so many people view this as redefining the experience of consuming porn, out of everything?
In the past if something new had difficulty gaining traction, porn saved it.
Oh yeah (realized porn is illegal in Saudi Arabia, where I live)