There was quite a different reaction to the iPhone when it launched, so I’m pretty confident it’s not the latter.
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billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They bought themselves into a beta test/focus group. Apple still doesn’t know what this will be. It might be a Newton MessagePad. Or it might be the iPhone.
poopkins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s 100% not anything like the original iPhone. Day what you will, it will never be that.
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just meant as successful. They’ve had several. The original iPod. The iPad. They’ve also had duds. The newton. The HomePod. The Pippin. Ping
nikt@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Apple is great at polishing and packaging things that already exist. The iPhone was a better Blackberry, the iPod a better MP3 player, the iMac a better all-in-one PC… I have a hard time thinking of stuff they truly pioneered. The Newton maybe? That did not end well for them.
If I had to bet, the Vision Pro will turn out to be a burnt pancake, but long term I have no doubt that something like it — something that augments reality one way or another — will become a thing. And in the meantime Apple has pockets more than deep enough to survive a failed Vision Pro.
The backlash against them trying to innovate is kind of dumb though. They aimed high for a change, and taking risks like this should be lauded not laughed at.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The problem is they didn’t aim high enough. AR/VR lives or dies on software. And for what they launched, it barely has the OS, and apparently that thing, although very polished UX wise, on security it’s a swiss cheese. And few people has the pockets to develop apps for it.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They are still failing, in 2024, to put touch capability into their computers. This isn’t a company that does innovativion well, and it hasn’t been for over 15 years. It’s totally fine to scoff at this attempt.
dontwakethetrees@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I really don’t see touchscreens on laptops to be something to judge a company’s innovation on. I work in communications and I can really only think of two coworkers that personally own touchscreen laptops.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have zero interest in touch screen on my laptop.