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422 sats \ 13 comments \ @beorange 17 Jan tech

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500 sats \ 6 replies \ @davidw 17 Jan

Who genuinely asked for this terrible tech?

I just can’t get my head around ever wanting to use it.
People are almost desperately egging-on Apple to ‘innovate’ a lighter version.
To solve the problem created by the solution, for a problem that does not exist.
Wake me up when glasses or contact lenses are a real thing. You’ve surely got to have real issues to want to buy and wear a literal cage on your face.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 17 Jan

💯Agree might be the ugliest product they’ve released since the iPod nano socks.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 17 Jan

😂

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 17 Jan

Perhaps I can see it being used in professional / technical environments (ie. technician on other end instructing you to loosen those 4 bolts and disconnect that red cable)....however its pretty creepy for use in personal settings.

Did you see the launch photo of creepy dad watching his daughters birthday party with those on, instead of using....ya know...his eyes?

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @Car 17 Jan

Agree! Could totally see this for technicians and other manufacturing plants that need to manage multiple remote site units at once.

But I thought that’s what HoloLens did back in the 2000’s 🤔

Maybe Apple is trying to do the same thing again to Microsoft but in a different segment. I’m sure there are some military use cases for it.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @davidw 17 Jan

Definitely. I suspect what they are also doing is putting a product out there, to get better at designing visual interfaces. Ready for a thin ‘Google-glass’ product down the line.

But I’d honestly be pretty embarrassed if I was Tim Apple, shipping this thing as-is. Especially as a ‘mainstream’ product for the masses.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Car 17 Jan

Yes totally agree totally unlike what Jobs would have done.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @JesseJames 18 Jan

My opinion is that they totally missed the bus with this one. They should sport mac-mini with M3 max chip with 128GB ram and sell it for 2K, instead. Developers would love it and they would sell it in millions.... They always picked good hardware but sorry, this VisionPro thing one ain't it. Was there even a demand for it? Beats me...

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @fiatbad 18 Jan

To be fair, every single Apple product since 2000 has been laughed at when first announced/released.

2 years later, people can't live without the product they once scoffed at.

I'm not defending Apple, I hate them for what they did with Nostr zaps. But it is a really interesting phenomenon that other companies don't share. I'm talking EVERY product too. Starting with the first iMac. The iPhone was criticized hard at first. The iPad was absolutely laughed off stage. People thought the watch only came out because Apple had nothing left to innovate on.... etc.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 18 Jan

I don't know man, this is totally different ball game. I mean do you have a need for it? I do not personally, nor apple watch. The idea of sending my heart rate to Apple is a bit concerning from many privacy perspectives yet we started treating this as "normal". To me it ain't nothing normal about it but to each his own. A phone, especially revolutionary as iPhone was slightly different. Personal computer is a business tool and we need those. Without them, life is a little more inconvenient methinks. Vision or watch, I can easily live without but that's me.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 17 Jan

It’s the first gen but this price tag is pretty hefty. Not sure if it will reach mass appeal if it’s not a step function improvement of the status quo.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 17 Jan

It seems the middle strap make it more comfortable but Apple sell it separately. I won't judge until I try it myself and wait until Apple future iterations are more lightweight.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_stacktoshi 17 Jan

I wonder if these ppl do any neck exercises. Not that I want this product to take off. I'm just interested using something like it as a gigantic portable monitor one day