Might look a bit strange right now and this might sound silly to say, but I predict this is going to be a game changer in how many of us interact with computers. This is bigger than just another Apple product.
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and not even able to finish that avg. movie clocking in at 2+ hours with its 2 hour battery
The battery pack looks like an identical shape and size to the original iPhone. I very much did not expect the battery be clad in aluminum but I love that it is reminiscent of the device that changed everything. Very, very excited for this device and will be among the early adopter nerds looking like Bug Eyes.
Futuristic an sleek? Those are not the adjectives I would use. Looks more like cross between skiing goggles and a pair of early 00's Oakley sunglasses. lol
He must have it set high enough that 79 minutes of light activity didn't close it out. Hell, I can do a walk workout for 40 minutes and still only get like 250 active cal burn.
The biggest keynote flop of the of the Tim Cook era. Apple itself didn’t even present a “why” for this. Why should I?
This is for people who can afford to delegate their calculations to someone else.
Timmy Apple has the most insincere "smile" I think I've ever seen.
I don't $3500 is unreasonable given the cost of all the components inside it.
(and I'm sure millions of R&D$)
(and I'm sure millions of R&D$)
Oh god I hope this doesn't give anyone the idea of attempting to drive with them. The sad part is, you know that people will try, and use the excuse that you can see through the goggles anyway.
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Anyone out there getting these vibes? Looks similar 🤔
it's not an AR device either - or did you see any "AR use case"?
it's the next step into visual computing and sure, eventually there will be AR and VR use cases ...
This lines up more with what I expected but the demonstrated user experience is beyond what I imagined.
Just my opinion, but:
As a platform experience, this is absolutely incredible.
From a practical standpoint, the hardware is going to be seen as "silly/ridiculous" by MUCH (not all) of the market, maybe too many to make it a mass consumer product. The price is also probably on the high side for a mass market device, for what it is.
A friend of mine had a good point too: imagine walking into a room and your friend or family member is on the phone. They stay on the phone but now they're talking to you too. Weird right? The example of someone walking up to someone wearing these and the "wearer" just starts talking to them while keeping the headset on and their eyes are "projected/rendered" ... also seems weird. At least to me.
Spatial computing may indeed be the next major category, but until the hardware mostly approaches a form factor that almost completely resembles "glasses", this product will not usher that category broadly into existence the way Mac and iPhone did respectively.
Just my opinion, but:
As a platform experience, this is absolutely incredible.
From a practical standpoint, the hardware is going to be seen as "silly/ridiculous" by MUCH (not all) of the market, maybe too many to make it a mass consumer product. The price is also probably on the high side for a mass market device, for what it is.
A friend of mine had a good point too: imagine walking into a room and your friend or family member is on the phone. They stay on the phone but now they're talking to you too. Weird right? The example of someone walking up to someone wearing these and the "wearer" just starts talking to them while keeping the headset on and their eyes are "projected/rendered" ... also seems weird. At least to me.
Spatial computing may indeed be the next major category, but until the hardware mostly approaches a form factor that almost completely resembles "glasses", this product will not usher that category broadly into existence the way Mac and iPhone did respectively.
Every year I hope this is the year they issue a tiny iOS update that forces all iphones in the world to only record video in landscape. We already have an oddball era of data loss because after shooting everything on film 35mm and 8mm, the world switched to video and it's so awful to look at, those decades of the worlds history are just being discarded. Spending 15 years with people shooting tiny slivers of vertical video was just as terrible, bc as time goes by everyone's going to ask themselves, is this video really worth cropping 2/3 of it off to a low-res Landscape and then having Ai reonstruct the relevant content in a higher resolution so we can see it again?
The pro-Apple pundits are in full PR mode.
So basically all the mock-ups we have even seeing for months looked so much BETTER than the real thing. As expected.
If looked at from a gross profit margin perspective, it's about right.
Apple GPM is around 43%, and production costs (parts and labor) were estimated to be $1,500 to $1,600.
This is the first time Tim Cook says he is excited to introduce some product or feature and actually looked excited. You can tell he really wanted to be the one to do it, like he knew releasing this product while heading Apple will be his long term legacy. Long after we stop carrying physical phones in the future we will still be using some version of this, even if we can't see it and it's built into our eyeballs or brains somehow.