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Here's What Tim Cook Looks Like Wearing Apple Vision Pro
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Of course. Yet a lot of people here insist that it’s understood that that this is a “beta” product that isn’t intended for mass consumption. They fall back again and again on a fantasy about future products that may or may not ever exist and then relentlessly trash about who’s critical of the current Vision Pro as lacking any kind of imagination. It’s blatantly insulting and a pretty obvious logical fallacy.
Steve should have put a product guy in charge of a product company. But he put an operations guy in the big chair and the result is a company that’s more focused on its stock price than on products people might actually want and use.
I’m not sure how much weight that would actually save. Most of the weight is probably in the lenses, the display panels, all the sensors, the wiring, the frame assembly, and so on. Silicon chips (the “smarts”) don’t weigh much.
In addition, it would make it more difficult to maintain the low latency and to provide the high bandwidth to the panels. The cable may need to be twice as thick, and might not tolerate a lot of bending.
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I think you took that all just a weeeeeeeeeeeee bit too seriously. I wasn't defending Apple, I was criticizing the people who comment here. I don't need to write what I already wrote again, so you can go back and re-read it if you're confused or unsure by why I wrote it.
The point that you missed is that everyone here thinks they know better than Apple, but for some strange reason, they don't take that superior knowledge and go out and beat Apple at their own game, becoming rich in the process.
I watched people complain and moan about the iPod, and its cost compared to other Mp3 players. Then I watched everyone whine and moan about every iteration of the iPod that came out, and of course they all did fantastic. Then I watched as people were interested in the iPhone, but wrote it off because of its price and the lack of a physical keyboard. Then I watched as everyone laughed at the ridiculously named "iPad" which was just a larger iPhone. A decade and change later, oops. Then the same thing happened with the Apple Watch, etc. You can probably see where I'm going with this.
Apple is far better than the people of this forum at identifying future trends and creating projects that go on to be pillars of what Apple is known for. But sure, THIS TIME, everyone here is right.
He looks like an idiot in it. The image will be memed to death. That isn’t “slick marketing.” It’s a projection of a lack of confidence in the appearance of the device.
I guess Apple was smart giving this exclusive to Vanity Fair. No snark from outlets like The Verge because they don’t want to admit someone else got the exclusive and don’t want to funnel them traffic.
This product is now officially dead on arrival.
This reminds me of when the Segway scooter came out. Instead of having somebody who was really cool at the time, like Puff Daddy was, they had Bill Gates driving went around. The nerd factor was screaming so loudly that no self-respecting person except for a mall cop would get on it
So now we have an old nerdy white guy wearing this big clunky thing on his face.…
Definitely. At first, I was convinced that the pencil was on the side. But now considering what you said, changing the perspective, it looks like a regular iPad Pro, yes.
Not judging anyone. I’ve been pretty clear if you read everything I’ve posted 👍
But yes, if a scuba diver was sitting in an office trying to look cool, they would look just as ridiculous as Cook does 😳
The external eye feature will not see version 2. It's awful and expensive.
Anything less than 5 million is an abject failure. To wit, the Apple Watch was labeled a complete dud when it 'only' sold 4 million the first year. Thankfully it was cheap enough and had a killer app (health sensors that can save your life) that catapulted it to stardom. The AVP costs 10x more, can't save your life, and will destroy what little coolness or social life you've had. Not a recipe for success.
There are better and easier ways to become rich which doesn‘t involve making yourself look like a monkey or turn a product company into a service company, or one that feasts on incremental bean-counting and nerfing of SSD speeds in follow-up device releases, or praise the non-existent security benefit in their app review.
These products brought applications with them that actual humans found useful. They‘ve had this in development for years and there is yet to be a single app to actually make this device worthwhile. Apple could at least offer one good app which would make this thing useful or genuinely better at something that would warrant a purchase.
Is is better at cultivating their stock and that‘s about it. The last really good product I remember was the AirPods. Or the mini devices (which addressed the issue of portability).
Apple is far from guaranteed with pioneering devices these days and they got a good number of flops. With a product guy with an actual vision that is not blocked like the Vision Pro, that would obviously be easier.
I seem to remember when some of the first as yet unseen iPhone "Sneak Peaks" appeared: A Commuter on the BART for example using one and in The Movie "The Hurt Locker" when Jeremy Renner was defusing an IED and had a large LCD display with icons attached to his wrist and the Inter-Webs went berserk!!
If there is a 3rd or 4th gen. First the price needs to come down significantly. Almost everyone agrees on that. Anyone who doesn’t is a Apple shareholder with large dollar signs blocking most of their view of reality. Second, there’s a few other things that need to improve on the design. Third, well the market will decide the rest.
I don’t think Tim would be that careless with leaving an unannounced product just sitting on his desk during a photoshoot. Or maybe he would be???