WHAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?!?!?!
ARE
YOU
FREAKIN
SERIOUS....
$3K + and no FIND MY, wow, that's grimey grimey
ARE
YOU
FREAKIN
SERIOUS....
$3K + and no FIND MY, wow, that's grimey grimey
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Don't Lose Your $3,500 Apple Vision Pro, You Can't Track Its Location
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Theft happens even if it hasn’t happened to you. The cheapest Apple devices have protection, but hey, I’m not surprised by your excuses!
Yes, it's support Find My but not independent location tracking. It just tells the location when it was detached from an iPhone.
Thought the same. If you can't keep track of a $3500 VR headset...
And it's not like people never carry around things this expensive. So many people have been carrying around camera bags for years, for example, with gear collectively worth more than this headset, and no way to track any of it.
The iPod wasn't an instant hit. It couldn't be since it only supported Macs and it had no iTunes Store.
In its first quarter Apple sold about 125 000 iPods and it took them almost two years to reach 1 milion.
How can you track the device in any meaningful way if it doesn't have power to turn on the radios?
It could use a passive NFC chip but it would require other iPhones to be extremely close to it.
This is such an odd omission. Was it just to increase margins?
This is so clearly a first generation, even public beta test product. V2 will add internal battery, full Find My, and if they’re smart it’ll remove that pointless front glass.
Excuses? I was making a recommendation for you to not purchase AVP.
Can you please elaborate on the bolded?
Apple's Kevin Lynch Explains Method Behind Apple Watch's Precise Timekeeping
One of the Apple Watch features Apple often highlights is the device's precise timekeeping, which Apple says is within 50 milliseconds of the...www.macrumors.com
Yeah, like anyone needs that level of accuracy. As if anyone would even NOTICE that the device is a high accuracy RADIO.
For $20 you can get a wrist watch with a quartz movement that will be accurate to a few seconds per year, will last for three or more years on a single battery and doesn’t need an expensive repair if you happen to break it.
So yeah. A $20 quartz is VASTLY superior to Apple Watch as a time telling device. Arguing otherwise is silly, since Apple “Watch” isn’t really a watch at all. It’s a little wrist computer/cell phone that happens to have a clock on it.
Same. I recall bringing it to parties and not getting to touch it again for hours. People were captivated by it. Instantly obsessed with its obvious functionality, beauty and simplicity.
But sure. If you listen to the Vision drones you’d think the iPod was a flop out of the gate. No one wanted one or knew what it was for.
Hahahahahahahah!!!!!
…you’re arguing that it’s not that accurate, then nobody needs that level of accuracy, then somehow it doesn’t count because it checks in a syncs against NTP servers?
I really don’t follow, but it’s simply not a truthful statement that a $20 quartz watch is more accurate. It just plain isn’t.
That’s the point I was responding to. Nothing about whether a watch is “worth it”.
Can’t get stolen if it’s in the police evidence room, I guess!
I just registered with MacRumors so I can give you thumb up … Spot on!
That’s not my argument. My argument is that the Apple Watch as a time keeping device exclusively is more complex and vastly more expensive than a simple quartz clock module. You can get a quartz module for pennies and it will keep time damn near as accurate as a radio that checks against the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In all practical, functional ways you’re better off with a cheap quartz if your goal is only to tell the time.
It’s so close that it isn’t material. Quartz watches are VERY accurate and if you’re obsessive about it you can spend a few dollars more and get one that checks against the NTP server too, so…
Nifty?
Thanks for the elaboration on your post. From a “I just need to tell time accurately” perspective of a person, absolutely just buy the $20 thing!
I thought you were making the claim that a quartz watch was *technically* more accurate. Now that I understand your approach to the point, time keeping, was from that of a potential purchase decision I get what you meant.
So how do you think the iMac uses FindMy if a missing battery prevents the devs from adding said code?
This points more to what the devs said, that it wasn't ready. Same as with a turned off device, it communicates with said servers as soon as it's powered on, independently from the device having a battery or not or the battery being dead.
It applies to any Mac without a battery inside, the Mac Mini, Mac Studio, Mac Pro. If stolen & without power find my doesn’t work. It’s not a bogus comparison at all. Same with the AVP. Besides, we both agree the only people whining about it aren’t buying one anyway. 🤷
It will work once it's turned on. No device has any use case if it's not turned on.
To be fair, Mac Pro can have wheels, so perhaps he wheeled it the coffee shop and it got stolen while he was getting his skinny latte topped up…