Interesting rumors. It makes it sound like more of an industry tool, than a consumer product. ie something VR / AR developers and creatives use first and foremost, with trickle down effects (ie an App Store that actually has apps) to the consumer line in following years. Will be interesting to see the pitch when it finally lands.
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It depends on the cost. Apple should refresh them regularly (2-3 years) but these would be a 2-5 year upgrade cycle unless Apple has versions under $1000, which then might be 2-3 year upgrade cycles.
Can’t wait to finally see what this thing looks like in March or June. Will be interesting indeed.
Was this product Jobs or Cooks idea?
Was this product Jobs or Cooks idea?
How is this still a thing? I mean make a 27" silver iMac with black or nu bazel with a M2 or a iPhone 14 (15) mini.
That is what customers want (to name 2), not a car or a set of glasses. Why did Apple stop listening to there older users (that prob have more then 5 Apple products and are dying to spend more money on existing products if only apple would cater to them.)
That is what customers want (to name 2), not a car or a set of glasses. Why did Apple stop listening to there older users (that prob have more then 5 Apple products and are dying to spend more money on existing products if only apple would cater to them.)
Apple will never admit that the main usage of such a headset is watching adult content in 3D.
Excellent. Plenty of time left for my Quest 2 then before it gets replaced by Apple Reality
The people who are negative here are for the most part anti-Apple and joined this site to attack Apple. There is a much higher percentage of people who are anti-apple fanboys than there are people who are apple fanboys. And for some reason those people love to stir up arguments.
The people who are here because they like Apple want Apple to succeed in the range of a little to a lot.
I was thinking the same thing while reading the article. Not sure if I'm dumb or it was just a poor choice of words from the author.
Yeah... Apple has no idea what they're doing. That's why they have a decades long track record of struggling to stay afloat, always being on the edge of bankruptcy.
Oh hell this thing is gonna fail hard isn't it??
The "affordable" model? Most people don't even buy a high-end Mac and they use their Mac all day long. But how many are willing to pay that much for an unproven accessory? This thing would have to be the second coming of the iPhone to have any measure of success at that price heading into a recession.
Why not skip the $6000 one that Marco Arment and 35 other rich dudes buy, keep it for internal testing, and just go straight to the $600 one the rest of us will buy.
And...who asked for a thousand songs in their pocket? That's just crazy. Apple is doomed. Again.
Flop? Lol. Has any major product Apple introduced in the last 15 years flopped? They’ve all been immensely successful. This will be the biggest success yet.
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If they really do just project an iPhone screen with a grid of top-left snapping icons…
They can come up with the technology to make AR/VR a mainstream product, but they just can’t get those darn icons to stop snapping to the top left.
They can come up with the technology to make AR/VR a mainstream product, but they just can’t get those darn icons to stop snapping to the top left.
Go back to macrumors archives and you’ll see the same type negative comments in the second half 2006 about iphone. And here we are again. Lol
Apple Jetpack coming in 2045, only purchasable in a Apple Store that's in the middle of the desert.
100% accurate and the anti apple are always the first 10 posts say. It’s like they are sitting there waiting for the story then bam. Is pretty funny.