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Kuo: Apple Glasses to Launch in 2022 at Earliest, New 10.8-Inch iPad and 9-Inch iPad Mini Coming in 2020/2021
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how poetic.
For your information, whatever device you’re using right now, it’s probably tracking you. Your phone is probably tracking you in someway. Your watch is probably dragging you in someway. Your AirPods are probably tracking you in someway. Your home. Your music library, no matter what it is. Something that you own is tracking you. So if you’re really worried about that, well here’s my solution. Go off the grid. Because glasses are not going to change that. They are probably going to track you. And if people don’t care about that, which most don’t, then they’re going to buy it if it’s cool. And if they’re that worried, then they won’t buy it. There’s your option. If you don’t want it, don’t buy it.
You asked if there was a way to opt out? There is, don’t give them your money.
And I agreed with you!
I used to see pre-loaded iPod Classics, but, the last museum audio tour I experienced was via my own iPhone. Not only does everyone have an internet enabled phone with them nowadays, it’s a LOT cheaper to build an internal website with images and audio than it is to buy/rent, deploy, maintain and clean devices meant to be used by anyone who wants an audio tour.
I will concede that if any big tech company can pull this off it’d probably be Apple. They marry form, fashion, and function best, and the watch is a triumph. But glasses are more intimate and personal than even a watch and there are some intrusiveness issues I can’t see getting past no matter how many times I roll it around. I’m prepared to be pleasantly surprised but I remain highly skeptical.
Oh absolutely. I cannot for the life of me picture myself wearing glasses like I do my Apple Watch or AirPods, but I’m very excited because of who’s working on it.
This really would complete the trifecta of wearables. Earphones, wristwatch and now glasses.
Well, quradofecta if you count implanted microchips as wearable.
This just shows how many bought the mini 5...apple who went from not upgrading to doing this? Says something
Like something out of Blade Runner. And I don ‘t mean that in a good way. As cool as this looks, it would give me a headache after 10 minutes of walking around. Who wants to be bombarded with that much visual stimulus? Teenagers might love this tho. Maybe thats who they are marketing it to.
They took the existing 10.5” chassis and put a lesser 10.2” display in it, no mods done to the 9.7” chassis, it was scrapped. Kept compatibility with all 10.5” accessories. No way they stretch that to a random 10.8” that requires all new keyboards and cases. Maybe they could trim the top and bottom bezels to keep overall case size the same, but I doubt it. I think they’d repurpose the 11” pro casing and put a lesser 10.8” display in it. iPad Air 4.
No, I disagree.
If you look at teardowns, you'll notice the 10.2" iPad has a completely different internal layout compared to the 10.5" iPad Air/Pro. The 10.2" iPad clearly uses the same layout as the 9.7" iPad. Everything from the logic board to the battery is the same. In fact, the battery is exactly the same across the iPad 2017, 2018, and 2019.
The 10.2" iPad is based on an enlarged 9.7" chassis.
Fair enough, but it was designed to mirror the 10.5” case externally for accessory compatibility. I just can’t see them stretching the external dimensions of the base iPad to a unique all-new size.
I disagree. Some of those features (usb-c, landscape face id, LiDAR) made most sense on an iPad anyway and wouldn’t necessarily be features that would come to iPhones. In-screen touch ID makes most sense (practically and economically) to me on a smaller screened device.