Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought

taanegl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is Apple heading down the road of Windows now? Release beta software and use the scream test to debug it?

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  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, it just has no apps, a poor battery life and like all new Apple product lines will be massively put to shame by its successors.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t have a poor battery life it has a poor battery design. If they put a decent battery on the damn thing it would be okay, it’s not particularly power hungry but apple just give it a gnat’s testicle of a battery.

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      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The design makes perfect sense. You can trivially add an additional pack with capacity if that's your use case. The included pack does the power management and has enough for plenty of people without being in the way, and it's as simple as plugging in any source of USC-C power at appropriate specs to extend it.

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  • space@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean selling unrepairable beta products of questionable usefulness at insane prices?

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  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When iPhone was released App Store didn’t even exist. A smartphone without apps is just a phone and VR glasses without apps are just a 360 degree monitor you wear on your face. I think Apple’s reasoning here is to provide the hardware and see what people do with it.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When Apple released the first iPhone no one had an app store, originally Apple wasn’t even going to have an app store it was all going to be web apps and then they realized that they could make more money with an app store. It wasn’t a feature people expected, but people do expect apps now and they’re not present.

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We absolutely expected it when we realised no games or anything could be installed.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can confirm, I had an Apple Newton. Hardware with no purpose is just hardware. So far, this seems like it’s going where every VR headset goes. It’s a solution looking for a problem.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think Apple’s reasoning here is to provide the hardware and see what people do with it.

      for sure, and in the rest of the tech world, we call these devkits, not finished products. Apple is trying to convince rando non-dev apple fanboys to pay $3500 for the privilege of playing with devkits. And in many ways, it’s a dead end, especially on input. what a shit show.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would be potentially interested in developing an app for it there are some things holding me back.

        • There’s no documentation on how to develop for it, that’s a big one.
        • I refuse to pay that much money for a dev kit
        • It’s missing vital features like the ability to connect to a bluetooth keyboard without having to go via a MacBook
        • It’s so expensive that only business users would buy it, and yet its battery is so small that it’s no good for business use, so where the hell are my customers going to come from?
        • It’s only available in the United States again limiting the number of customers that I may potentially have

        It just doesn’t seem like it’s been properly released yet. It’s a beta product with beta features and has been released as such except it has a non beta price. And also virtually no developers got early access so there’s basically no apps.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah the iPhone was successful at launch because it was a sleek blackberry and had iPod like capabilities. But it didn’t blow up until the App Store came out. I expect this product to do the same, and in the same way, companies to release competitive products with similar capabilities in a feature war until the newest releases are mostly talking about resolution and processor speed instead of new features

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  • YoorWeb@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now?

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