which should have been expected. after 10 years the market is saturated, and it’s a mature product that has had no killer feature to upgrade early for.

you never did entertain a conversation, you’re just insulting anyone who disagrees with you. when you are actually challenged on your bullshit you bail.

firstly, just because you say so doesn’t mean there is ZERO market for it.

secondly, of course there isn’t significant demand for it yet it’s a completely new technology and the use case is still being explored. people can’t demand what doesn’t exist.

Thirdly, show me exactly where companies are “coercing” us to create demand for AR. of course i realize there are extreme marketing campaigns that try unecessarily hard to push products like AI, but that is obviously not happening with AR.

Just stop mindlessly accepting and defending this behavior and stand up for yourself as a consumer.

finally, if you seriously can’t comprehend any way at all that AR could be helpful then you are just as mindless as you are accusing me of being. stop being an arrogant asshole and consider that people can disagree with you without being “mindless”.

I’m not even a huge proponent of AR glasses, but i think that’s a pretty shortsighted view. AR/VR tech was still in its infancy when google decided to drop it (as they do with many beloved products btw), and Apple has a history of repackaging/refining products in a way that allows them to catch on. Apple Vision is by all accounts a cool product, just still way too expensive for mainstream use. The tech is still maturing. I’m not saying Apple will for sure succeed, but it’s just silly to outright claim “there is no market for this”.

also “forced onto consumers”? no one is being forced to buy anything, what a ridiculous take.

it’s not that complicated, the goal is to create another hit product that everyone wants like the ipod and iphone.

if you’re worried about readability you can leave a comment.

i guess they just mean like a 2D “touch”screen.

that steak looks terrible.

If its not more blatant ways to display ads…

is it more blatant than television has ever been? Like it or not, lots of people want free shit even if it’s injected with ads.

“it” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I agree a lot of the “AI” features being pushed are junk that I don’t want (e.g. image playground), but there are some that i do think that will help a lot as we have discussed in the other chain.

with chatgpt siri will just be way better at understanding everyday language. For example, if i am listening to an Apple Music playlist with a bunch of different artists and i say “hey siri play this album” it has no idea what I mean. ChatGPT easily handles context dependent language like that.

If you haven’t used chatGPT you should try it and compare the results with siri. It’s not perfect but it is way easier to get what you want.

AI has no idea what a calendar is or what the word calendar means.

Of course it does, where are you getting this from? This is what LLMs do, understand language. If you ask chaptGPT to add an event to your apple calendar it will say it doesn’t have access and give you instructions to do so. Apple is basically working on converting those instructions to interface with siri.

And even if they do limit it to basic functionality like speech to text or scheduling, it already does most of that amd they’d be plowing millions into the slightest improvements.

that’s not what the ChatGPT part will be doing. As you say, siri already handles that. ChatGPT is there to understand the language and context of the request, something LLMs do much much better than Siri now.

the execution and delivery of Vision Pro was not the problem, that’s where Siri is struggling now.

this is silly, integrating Siri with ChatGPT is one of the ways AI will probably benefit apple users. If only just for parsing and contextually processing user requests better than it does now.

hence “bringing” to airpods.

Universal Translators, the future is here.

hurry up and get Siri integrated with chatGPT and it’ll be a lot more useful.

exactly, when confronted with cognitive dissonance people look for any shitty excuse to avoid changing their minds.

exactly, profit margin. people aren’t upgrading every year like they used to, so they have to make up (some of) that lost profit by increasing prices.

obviously they did exist. why do you think phone manufacturers would stop making them if they were as profitable as the other sizes?