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Soon you see NBA players on the court using these devices.......the horror of it all:eek:

Seriously, losing the device is always a worry. especially what is happening in the US and the lack of help for victims of thieves these days.
 
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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. 🤷

Well, I can see you’re good at rationalizing.
 
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Anyone else bored of the amount of Apple vision “pro” spam in their feeds from Macrumours?

The way I see it is that the people that can afford to waste the money on this pointless product aren’t going to be too bothered about the cost of replacement! So who cares?
Huh? I can comfortably afford the AVP but I wouldn’t want to dish out another $4K to replace it. I care and I’m sure I speak for everyone else that owns one.
 
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No battery for remote location finding. Hopefully future versions will have a GPS chip and a small battery for Find My
 
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Why does it always come back to this for you? Anyone who doesn’t buy into the concept is somehow either too poor to buy it or too ignorant. Have you considered that when weighing the known pros and cons of the device we’ve decided it’s a con? Have you ever considered that being an Apple fan doesn’t mean you’re required to fall over backwards in ecstasy over any and every product Apple foists off?
He can't help himself. About 80% of his entire posting history are thinly-veiled or outright blatent insults against anyone critical of Apple/Apple Products.

It's really quite tiresome.
 
Vision Pro is a half baked device in many ways. They could fit 30000Mah battery in that battery case, but they’ve preferred 3000. The same about adding AirTag, they could add it easily but they didn’t do it. What did they think of when they were working on it ?🤔😳
They were thinking of weight
 
Now I defend the AVP in a lot of situations, but I can't really defend this at all. What the hell am I reading in the year 2024 that an Apple product is not able to be found via FindMy? Not just any boring Apple product but one of the most important devices (potentially) of the decade.

Youre telling me if a thief grabbed my AVP and literally just unplugged it and took it into the next room, I would have no idea where in the United States my AVP is? This is insane lmaoooo
think they said there's an option to lock the device so it can't be used by anybody else.
 
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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.
If the device was stolen, I would assume that someone would power it on again at some point, or there wouldn’t be much point stealing it.

If Apple had included the Find My hardware, it would be able to ping home when it was connected to the battery.

I don’t know what’s so hard to comprehend by what I’m trying to say here, because it certainly sounds plausible to me.
 
If the device was stolen, I would assume that someone would power it on again at some point, or there wouldn’t be much point stealing it.

If Apple had included the Find My hardware, it would be able to ping home when it was connected to the battery.

I don’t know what’s so hard to comprehend by what I’m trying to say here, because it certainly sounds plausible to me.
Highlighting that a number of devices have FindMy built in even when not having a battery doesn‘t help his case when he argues that having a battery is a requirement for the feature to be part of the software.
 
You actually don‘t need a chip to have FindMy software integration. My 2012 Mac mini has it, too, and it has zero geolocation or battery hardware.
Indeed, although I think GPS would make it a little more secure than just software, especially for a "portable/wearable" device.

I find it hard to imagine that GPS would add that much cost, or indeed weight, to the product.
 
Nor does my MagSafe Apple Wallet, but it has FindMy.
True, but with the limitation that FindMy will only show the MagSafe Apple Wallet’s last known location before it was detached from your iPhone. It’s the iPhone that’s providing that tracking information though. The MagSafe Apple Wallet on its own isn’t trackable.

(Unless there is a new version — that I’m not aware of — that is trackable.)
 
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True, but with the limitation that FindMy will only show the MagSafe Apple Wallet’s last known location before it was detached from your iPhone. It’s the iPhone that’s providing that tracking information though. The MagSafe Apple Wallet on its own isn’t trackable.

(Unless there is a new version — that I’m not aware of — that is trackable.)
Doesn't matter how it is implemented - they decided to not implement it at all.
Maybe it's the low price tag of the heasdset
 
I'm sure it's because it doesn't have a built in battery. Mine's rarely leaving the house, so I'm not concerned. I keep up with my stuff and have never had any tech stolen in my life.
 
…you wouldn’t be able to travel on planes with it if the battery capacity was that high.

There’s like…laws and rules in the real world that need to be considered.
The biggest batteries allowed by the FAA are rated at 27.000 mAh… That’s almost TEN times more than what Apple put into that thing. Heck, I have both Samsung and Belkin powerbanks rated at 10.000 mAh, and they’re not too bulky.

My guess is that they’re gearing up to have much more power-efficient chips in future models of the Vision/Vision Pro range, and are planning to put a smaller, denser battery into the headband, while keeping the same 2-3h hour battery life, hence why they didn’t go overboard with it now.

That still doesn’t excuse the lack of Find My support; they could’ve stuck a little AirPod-like battery in the headset itself to support that and battery pack hot-swapping (and, heck, they could also offer a much larger one, maybe even greater than FAA’s limit, for home and office use), it’s not like Apple’s OSes aren’t great at going into deep sleep and conserving power. It really does seem weird and half-baked, IMHO.
 
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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. 🤷
Except there’s no reason why the damned thing couldn’t do the same pinging as those Macs do, now, is there?
 
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