I’m sure he has some interesting(?) things to say, but I’m not touching that video because of the thumbnail.
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iOS 17 Rumored to Have 'Fewer Major Changes Than Originally Planned' as Apple Shifts Focus to AR/VR Headset
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I think VR is going to have a very hard time being anything other than niche - for certain uses, it has great potential, but not everyone is doing remote surgery or similar.
AR, on the other hand, has the potential to be positively huge, once we get several generations past the prototype stage, to where they can use normal-looking glasses, or contact lenses, to overlay information on the real world, so you can be looking for some specific thing (whether it's a building while you're walking around, or a missing remote in your house, or a specific item on a store shelf, or whatever), and there's a dimly glowing outline around it, overlaid directly on reality. Or, you look around a room of people at a meeting, and you see everyone's name hanging in space in front of them. Or you look at a sign written in a foreign language, and see it overlaid with a subtle translation to your language, in real time. I think it's a technology that has a ton of interesting uses that haven't been thought of yet, and I'm very excited to see where it goes.
And I'd happily use something like that. But I don't expect that level of usefulness and unobtrusiveness to be here any time in the next decade. Hell, I've had people excitedly showing me demos of speech recognition since the 80's swearing up and down that it was either usable right now (then) or just around the corner, and I don't think speech recognition reached the level of actual usability (and it's clearly still not 100%) until just the last 5-10 years. There will be the same thing with AR, people saying, "no, see, it's totally ready for use right now", when it really isn't.
I hate that Rene Ritchie has gone all-in on the "exaggerated expression clickbait" thumbnail camp. I used to appreciate his takes on Apple rumors on MacBreak Weekly, years ago.
Ideally, it would be the iOS 12 or macOS Snow Leopard that saves the software of 2023
I'm a bit sad that innovation on iOS and probably MacOS will suffer because Apple wants to make a product I don't even care about.
Ugggg.....
I wish they would focus on actually making their products work....iOS has become so buggy or incomplete if you don't count terribly designed sections as buggy.
All to focus on a product very few people are actually going to buy.
Get rid of the bean counter, put a product guy in charge. And hire some freaking people....
There is no reason they can't have enough developers.
Just like it shouldn't take 4 years to circle back and design an upgrade to a mac.
I wish they would focus on actually making their products work....iOS has become so buggy or incomplete if you don't count terribly designed sections as buggy.
All to focus on a product very few people are actually going to buy.
Get rid of the bean counter, put a product guy in charge. And hire some freaking people....
There is no reason they can't have enough developers.
Just like it shouldn't take 4 years to circle back and design an upgrade to a mac.
They shifted the MacOS team to iOS once to get a release done, it was probably about 10 years ago. It was as stupid of a thing to do then as it is to do now. Hire...more....people.
Waiting to hear more about it. Hopefully iPad gets a calculator app.
I don’t believe the EU legislation, which will continue to be refined and clarified, will have the effect that some think it will. In the end, it will still be better for developers to stay on the App Store and pay the fee.
That being said, the EU legislation will only decrease privacy, increase complexity, and result in a poor user experience (outside the App Store).
Users are not calling for this, but the legislators are not listening to users — they are listening to a few loud developers that think there should be no cost to distribute their product. The world doesn’t work that way, but there will always be politicians that are too ignorant to understand this.
No need for changes, just make what we currently have work properly and reliably.
Welcome AR/VR, let’s hope it will be useful and not another toy.
Welcome AR/VR, let’s hope it will be useful and not another toy.
Grumman at best can speculate, not predict real world actions. No one has a mixed reality device that is going make a fortune immediately, so why would Apple shift a lot of resources away from advancing their OS’s just to launch such a device?
I hope the headset works with Macs so developers can make Mac versions of all the cool VR stuff that's out there. If it only works with iPhone and iPad then Apple won't let developers publish the VR game emulation room app for example. But on Mac people can make whatever app they want.
In fact, I hope the headset one day has enough processing power in it to run MacOS itself. Adobe CC in a VR/AR headset would be a game changer.
In fact, I hope the headset one day has enough processing power in it to run MacOS itself. Adobe CC in a VR/AR headset would be a game changer.
Talent is a finite resource. For every talented developer who understands and indisputably believes in the mission and can work as an effective team player behind the VPs in charge, there are thousands of people who show up for the paycheque with average performance. Everyone has their share of each at their own job and you know who they are. If the company is big enough, you know there are many more of the latter group than the former. Hiring those key people is limited by the number of them who exist and no amount of money is going to make more of them.
Moving the A-Team to the priority project is very common and to be expected. The B-Team can maintain the existing product line but they're not going to work like the A-Team.
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It’s more like augmented reality will be accessible to iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS users in the future. So perhaps this rumor has some basis in fact, but then everyone thinks it’s related to a mixed reality device instead.
How silly. IOS is just fine as it is for millions of consumers. the priority for the company has shifted. As well they should have. Many Apple consumers pretend to be design. Savants and OS experts. they are ridiculous. The good news is Apple ignores the complainers.
You need to employ three dimensional thinking. An AR device that eventually replaces the iPhone isn't going to be made with today's camera technology.
The sweet spot for a viable iPhone replacement will come when Apple's three wearables are capable of replicating all of the iPhone use cases and not sooner. It may take 5 or more years but the pieces are being positioned: Apple Watch + AirPods + Glasses. Use as many or as few as you like in any combination for a richer experience and capabilities or more portability.
In my view, it's likelier that Apple's version of AR glasses that are meant to be worn outside the home and office won't have any visible light camera at all, if it's to be socially accepted (see Glasshole). It'll have a LiDAR sensor that was first introduced in the iPad and then brought to the iPhone without much use and clearly added as a development platform for the AR glasses. This is what they'll will use for situational awareness. It won't need an outward facing camera.
This leaves us with the Apple Watch as the place for deliberate photography, in the same way you lift your phone to take a picture. No, it won't be a bulky set of lenses on the Watch or strap. Instead, light sensors are being developed that are just another pixel in a display grid. RGB+S. Having the entire face of the Watch act as a camera, your Watch will become your always on you personal device, capable of capturing photos in a blind point and shoot fashion, framed by ML and adjusted in post if desired.
That said, I don't believe the iPhone will disappear. We'll still have slabs of glass we use but it'll be optional in the same way as you add an iPad to improve your experience today. The iPhone will just become less of a required day to day carry-on because the Watch, AirPods and Glasses will do things that the iPhone can't do and sufficiently replace its functions.
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now i know you didnt tell anybody to chill after making a paragraph getting defensive over something non offensive lol
