I’m in the Uk, so I can’t buy one even if I wanted to, but thanks.
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Don't Lose Your $3,500 Apple Vision Pro, You Can't Track Its Location
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no but that's not the point. why does my Mac mini have location information when vision pro is more of a portable device than a Mac mini?
Glad they don’t do it two weeks after or outside the return period lol
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.
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.
depends where you place it and if you put it on the headset. Even if it gets stolen you can still lock the device so nobody can use it
think they said there's an option to lock the device so it can't be used by anybody else.
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 they were thinking about weight, it wouldn’t be 650 grams. And since it’s that heavy already, what’s an extra gram or two for the find my chip.
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.
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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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
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.
Except there’s no reason why the damned thing couldn’t do the same pinging as those Macs do, now, is there?