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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2025?
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Sounds like you need to take advantage of the height adjustability of your monitor and / or seat. For best ergonomics, the top of the monitor should be more or less at eye level, and your forearms parallel to the desk surface.
TVs shouldn't be above eye level. There's a whole subreddit dedicated to thatGiven TVs are usually a reasonable distance away, the centre can be level with your eye, allowing your head to be in a neutral / level position (monitors are too close for this to be possible). Besides, LCDs are best viewed on-axis.
The only reason a TV needs to be above eye level is to avoid a fireplace, which for historic reasons are generally already at the focal point of the room. But that's a compromise for aesthetics (and there are ways around it), not something that's inherently desirable.
I use a standing desk at work, so I can adjust as needed. At home. Not so much.
Our tv is above eye level because, like you said, it's about the fireplace. We have a big living room and it's about 10ft away, so the additional height doesn't bother me.
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At first glance, I thought you meant a headset so good, you can see the future with it. But re-reading, it seems you feel the recipe for Vision Pro success is even better hardware and an even higher price. Personally, I wouldn't restart the production lines with that strategy.
I wasn't sure if you were joking / trolling. It's often hard to tell on these forums.
Like I said, I'm only half joking. It would make it clearer that it was never intended to be mass production and enable maybe even higher end components.
Maybe less "missing the point" by people thinking it was aimed at consumers originally.
Maybe less "missing the point" by people thinking it was aimed at consumers originally.
I think the 'early adopter' / developer prototype angle is overplayed, and somewhat of an excuse. Products that genuinely had this trajectory, like the iPhone and iPad, had a buzz about them from early on. Sales exploded once the enthusiasts had been milked and the price was reduced for the masses.
The AVP seems more like a product that should have come out in 2050, yet was inexplicably launched a couple of decades too early. It's like a coal-fired jetpack. They needed to solve the optics problem first (i.e. fit the displays in glasses or contacts). The UI stuff is the easy part, and would have then been solved in short order.
The AVP wasn't the coming together of long-term trends, as the iPhone was. It's the result of a corporation that derives most of its money from one category, needing to find a way to keep growing as that category slows. Despite the absence of any break-through new technology, they need to try something - and crucially, demonstrate to investors they're taking action.
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How about an $4000 iphone 17 ultra with A19 Ultra-max chip that supports AI-ultra. If they can make a $4000 dollar Mac then they should be able to build a similar spec'ed iphone.
I am sure it will find buyers in many countries. Right now, they are strutting around flaunting a diamond crusted iphone case with just cosmetic value. It is time Apple invested in this audience.
I am sure it will find buyers in many countries. Right now, they are strutting around flaunting a diamond crusted iphone case with just cosmetic value. It is time Apple invested in this audience.
the patent filing for the device with a diagram that looks almost identical to the released product goes back to 2007.
unless you're thinking apple was worried about trying to keep growing as their growth slowed... in 2007.... you're just wrong.
You are going too fast!
I have Mac Mini but a non-Touch ID Apple keyboard. If I have to do anything to move towards biometric, I'd rather go straight to Face ID than the halfway house of getting a Touch ID keyboard.
At one point, Apple Pay used to ask my phone to validate using the Face ID on that. Which would be acceptable for me. But that stopped happening and now I cannot use Apple Pay on my Mac mini without buying a Touch ID keyboard.
A new Apple Watch that supports blood oxygen monitoring. My S6 (with BOM) is getting a bit long in the tooth, but I'll hold off replacing it until that feature is enabled.
Why release it now then? Seems like it could have done with another 20 years in the oven, until the display technology existed to make it worthwhile.
The AVP does nothing to advance a fundamentally different display; it's just a high end OLED. The case would be stronger if it used e.g. a low res holographic display, that would clearly develop into a better version in time but was a true proof of concept. Conventional VR is a dead end for the mass market. Refining the UI for the future paradigm is putting the cart before the horse. I have no doubt Apple (and others) can do the UI part - it's the displays that need the big leap forward.
A speculative patent in 2007, which will essentially be a sketch with annotations for "awesome displays" and "advanced UI" (or whatever), hardly means it's been in full development since then. VR headsets have looked similar since the 1980's, so it's no surprise a patent from the mid-2000's resembles the AVP. Here's one from 1991:
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I wouldn't change anything. Apple has an outstanding array of products, a different price points, that just work, day in and day out. And most importantly, they're products Apple's 1+ billion active and repeat customers love to buy and use.
I could see a Home Hub type device that handles different tasks being interesting. As well as an AVP gen 2.
I could see a Home Hub type device that handles different tasks being interesting. As well as an AVP gen 2.
I highly doubt 1/8 of world's population is in the Apple ecosystem. A certain proportion of the richest countries, sure.
The number of Windows / Android users is probably 10x higher. Does that mean those platforms are even better?
So to be clear, you want your iPhone to handle FaceID for your mini (to log in etc.), rather than have the option of TouchID on your keyboard? Or are you saying you intend to buy a Studio Display with FaceID (should it emerge)?
Because otherwise I'm not sure how you'd skip 'straight to FaceID'.
No worries mate, feel free to doubt. From multiple sources, the number of worldwide iPhone *users* varies from 1.38 to 1.6 Billion.
I suspect a few of those might also even own an iPad/Mac/Watch/HomePod.
I stand corrected. The iPhone does indeed have about a quarter of the worldwide smartphone market.
I guess I tend to see my phone as a supplementary device, but for many (younger) people it's likely their primary.
A few more:
RSS integration with the Appple News app. Apple News doesn’t cover every Topic or carry every source; I have to use a dedicated RSS reader for this, and it would be so much more convenient to get all my news in one app. Apple was so big on RSS during Steve Jobs’ tenure and it’s a wonder why native RSS integration disappeared.
A “CarPlay Mode” for the iPhone. Since plenty of cars lack CarPlay (older cars, newer GMs, Teslas), why doesn’t the Phone interface become a CarPlay interface when connecting (with AUX cable or in-car Bluetooth) Phone and car?
Streamlining of the entire product range combined with consistency in naming. What do “SE” “Air” “Plus” “Pro” “Max” and “Pro Max” mean? There’s no “Mac SE” or “AirPods Plus” for example. Make it an obvious good —> better —> best delineation and standardize that across each product line. As for streamlining, 3 levels is much better than 7 IMO, so maybe simplify the progression to Air —> Pro —> Max.
And as long as we’re being wishful: For VisionPro to be AR not VR!
RSS integration with the Appple News app. Apple News doesn’t cover every Topic or carry every source; I have to use a dedicated RSS reader for this, and it would be so much more convenient to get all my news in one app. Apple was so big on RSS during Steve Jobs’ tenure and it’s a wonder why native RSS integration disappeared.
A “CarPlay Mode” for the iPhone. Since plenty of cars lack CarPlay (older cars, newer GMs, Teslas), why doesn’t the Phone interface become a CarPlay interface when connecting (with AUX cable or in-car Bluetooth) Phone and car?
Streamlining of the entire product range combined with consistency in naming. What do “SE” “Air” “Plus” “Pro” “Max” and “Pro Max” mean? There’s no “Mac SE” or “AirPods Plus” for example. Make it an obvious good —> better —> best delineation and standardize that across each product line. As for streamlining, 3 levels is much better than 7 IMO, so maybe simplify the progression to Air —> Pro —> Max.
And as long as we’re being wishful: For VisionPro to be AR not VR!
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iPhone mini (yeah sorry, I mean it)
and Apple Watch with blood glucose sensor
and Apple Watch with blood glucose sensor
Reflecting further on this, instead of a display, I’d also happily take a cheaper, lighter Vision, powered from the iPhone Pro and use that as a giant display instead with apps running in iPad size class windows.
But that’s far less likely in 2025, so if I can’t have any of the above, Apple, at least give me a teeny tiny MacBook. You remember those crappy netbooks from around 2010? Something that size, but with Apple’s industrial design and an M-series chip.
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