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warning26
·3 年前·discuss
> Or the Apple Watch which was slow, with bad battery life and a horrible SDK.

In Apple's defense, it is still two of those things. (No longer slow though!)
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
Ah yes, the “lowest common denominator” argument. Personally, I hate the idea that everyone should be punished because some people can’t handle something.
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
Exactly -- my iPad has the same SOC as my laptop, and my laptop is amazingly useful while my iPad is useful for...watching movies and Safari.
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
Sure, but that comes with two downsides:

1. Since it's an extended display over wireless, bandwidth limitations mean you're limited to just a single 4k resolution monitor floating in space (they mentioned that it simulates a single 4k monitor in the demo)

2. You also would have to bring your laptop with you

To me, one of the major value propositions for something like the Vision Pro would be that it could replace your laptop entirely. But it doesn't seem like that will be the case, at least based on what they've announced.
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
Ah yes, but those apps appear to be just some kind of iOS type thing, so at least for me I couldn’t really use them for productivity. (The lack of coding tools on iOS also really kills any possible productive uses of my iPad in this way, unfortunately)

(That’s why I was focusing more on the mirror-your-Mac functionality)
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
I just wish this ran something more like macOS instead of iOS.

Like the iPad, it seems I wouldn’t be able to do anything productive on the Reality Pro due to the lack of any sort of meaningful coding tools.
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
From what they showed, you can’t break the windows out of the screen mirror rectangle.

You’re right though, if they allowed windows to freely float, it would also solve the issue.
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
Yup -- I was a bit disappointed that it can only simulate a single monitor, but I guess since it's working wirelessly there's bandwidth limitations.

Ideally I'd love it if I could simulate a 3 monitor workstation. Maybe for the next iteration.
warning26
·3 年前·discuss
That applies regardless of whether or not the tv is “smart” - my current “smart” Roku TV runs great, and I had an old “dumb” Samsung that took forever to do anything.

Well-written software is what helps here, not smartness or lack thereof.
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
Citizen! Pick up that can!
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
The issue here is that your proposed approach is very English-focused. Not every language would allow for a straightforward "pronouns" selector that would result in a meaningful data point.
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
I think we can safely assume that parent commenter was upset that their favorite Important Political Opinion was not presented as an absolute fact on Wikipedia.
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
Well then, I hope that perhaps you and similarly-minded engineers can channel that frustration into pressuring your incompetent leadership to alter their policy of mindlessly killing products.
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
What I find particularly egregious is that when Apple requests to track users, they use the text "Allow Apple to personalize your experience?", while for 3rd parties they use the much scarier "allow this app to track you?" prompt
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
Roscosmos, the space program that's still flying the exact same equipment that it did in the 60s and has made no efforts to improve since then? Yes, that one. Buran+Energia was a generational leap forward, and it all fell apart when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Considering that I described territorial conquest as "bad", I think we can safely say I did not mean Afghanistan.
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
Honestly it's too bad that Putin's obsession with the Soviet era isn't at all focused on the things that were good about the Soviet Union.

Things like this, or its space program. Instead, it's all the bad parts (territorial conquest) with none of the good.
warning26
·4 年前·discuss
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warning26
·5 年前·discuss
I assume this just means that they'll require a "Meta" account instead of a Facebook account, and it will come with all the same problems as creating a Facebook account.

Also, their "support" for sideloading, while better than nothing, requires a valid phone number or credit card number to sideload anything.
warning26
·5 年前·discuss
Interesting, I had assumed they just didn’t know that lead was bad back then. What’s even weirder is how there are still people today who insist that banning leaded gasoline was an key example of government overreach.

Someone once was arguing this point to me and I just had to drop the topic because it was such a baffling stance.