Well... hold on.
If it makes coffee and it scratches my back while I drink it... take my money.
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If it makes coffee and it scratches my back while I drink it... take my money.
It’ll be built-in, because otherwise it’s not family-compatible. You don’t want to be dependent on whether some family member just happened to take the screen to their room.
Colour me sceptical but who know what a funBot might turn out to be. A prehensile neck. A “head” that swivels to “look” around.
Linked to Vision Pro. So it can be a Presence thing. You call and embody the robot meaning you can call people who don’t have it and look around the room.
Linked to Vision Pro. So it can be a Presence thing. You call and embody the robot meaning you can call people who don’t have it and look around the room.
Vibration motor before the taptic engine.
Oh, and there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(1910s_automobile).
I don't think so.
More appropriate might be to say technophiles who inhabit tech site forums are or have lost touch with tech and computer needs of the average consumer.
Tech sites are greats places for enthusiasts, professionals, etc. to gather and exchange ideas, but they do not reflect consumers or even enterprise customers who comprise the vast majority of the market.
Oooooooh. An Apple Robot? Will it have the reliability of Siri, Location Services, and HomeKit combined? I can't wait. 🙄
Sure, but Apple doesn't make it's prices based on value but on what it expects it can get away with in a price range. See 5g modems in different iPad models, RAM/SSD upgrades,...
There were old devices with magnetic hard drives (like most iPods), but those motors came already installed by third party manufacturers. But there were Apple printers, scanners, magnetic disk drices, a tape drive and, most recently, the lens alignement system in the vision pro.
And you probably forgot about cooling fans.
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I don't think at $1000 this is a device that the average consumer wants.
If someone wants to make a Facetime call or control their smart home why wouldn't they just use their phone or their ipad?
There might be a market if it was cheaper but this has that Vision Pro thing. Too little utility, too large a price tag.
The focus has always been what Apple thinks their customers will want. It goes back the Ford comment of "If I gave customers what they wanted now, I'd be in the faster horse business." Is this what the people WILL want? I dunno. They will have to work to build that value.
Steve Jobs never developed products the customers thought they wanted. He focused Apple on products the customers didn't know they wanted.
You know what, I agree
I still don't understand why Apple hasn't made simply a HomePod with display just like Google and Amazon did YEARS ago with their respective home hubs
They don't want this, that I can promise you.
Maybe it’ll be called the iHandy and will be Apple’s first foray into sex toys, but instead of learning to do it the way you like it, it’ll just come with a standard set of six underwhelming Apple presets.
That's an excellent question. I really do question many of their recent decisions and "ideas".
I'm being serious when I say this......that sounds more useful than this "robot" thing or the Vision Pro.
Services has the greatest return on investment. And depending how it‘s reported is the easiest numbers to fudge.
LOL - I was about to ask if the robot arm might have a...grip. You could put a wig on it and "pick it up" at the Genius Bar.