Makes sense.

They’ve been doing this long before the Ukraine invasion. They are literally just flexing to be dicks. It’s like showing off this new annoying thing you learned to do as a child. The reason we know this is that they’ve been doing this on the NW border of Russia to Finland as well, and since this type of interference is geographically relevant, it clearly has nothing to do with the war.

This is the same thing as their boats and subs being detected near undersea cables, and then like a week later one of them gets “mysteriously” cut and they’re standing around faking confusion saying “Huh? What are you talking about? That wasn’t me. Stop hitting yourself, though.” Fucking childish.

The streaming services are just operating the same way cable providers did now anyway. Worse in some cases.

Full circle.

(queue Pink Floyd)

I think I’m the comission of a crime possibly, sure. I’m unaware of other countries just willy-nilly snatching devices “just because”. I haven’t looked at the data recently though, you have that?

You want every state to be able to be able to confiscate your devices?

Yes they did. I was at WWDC, and they punted to the upcoming version of the headset that would do what they already claimed it would.

From the horses mouth: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/02/apple-announces-more-than-600-new-apps-built-for-apple-vision-pro/

None of the mention of gaming is true or possible with the current gen, and they specifically said they were developing an “upcoming headset for gamers” that was tailored to this. Now it’s cancelled, and even if you pull the “well, they REALLY meant…” bullshit, they specifically talked about how “easy” it was to port games from the App Store, which was never possible. Flat out bullshit.

I can’t breathe from all the smokescreen.

Yes. They did abandon work on the gaming and multimedia improved headset. What about that is wrong from the article?

Yup

Speaking strictly in the US, which is what this article is about.

If you haven’t read or looked into this, it feels almost wrong to just boil it down for you.

Watch one of their stupid commercials about it, then see if it works at all the way they delict it working. It does not. All it is now is a wearable monitor for desktop viewing. Things it does not do while clearly depicted as such:

• gaming
• multimedia presentations
• stream to other headsets
• have ANY sharable user positioning data (local or GPS)
• collaboration with other headset owners
• wireless anything (it’s got a heavy ass battery pack)
• literally has NONE of the apps that it had depicted it had in some presentations at initial dev announcement (Netflix, YouTube…etc), though they are usable in browser

Anyway, you get the idea. There’s more, but why bother.

I never said that. WTF are you talking about?

the tech giant has suspended work on the next Vision Pro and is looking for ways to cut costs for a cheaper model that could ship by the end of next year

It absolutely does not. Which non-shitty version of their currently absolutely shitty headset did you think was going to be the magic one that actually works the way describe and advertise? Lolol

Why would anyone want this? Maybe they are forcing Chinese nationals to buy them and inflate their popularity as a product for Papa CCP.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/apple-gives-up-apple-vision-pro-headset

I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it. I’m sure it’s going to be taking data for mapping or some other dumb bullshit with AI to describe what’s around you because you can’t fucking use your eyes.

Apple is so bad now. Ugh.

You can get a Ryzen minipc for under $200 now.

Imagine that: some scammy motivational speakers who have been peddling a bunch of feel-good bullshit for decades didn’t know how to fix a company that was hemorrhaging money with warm thoughts and regards.

I would have taken that bet.

It’s still very subjective to who is making the main CPU, but yeah. It’s meant for low power applications.