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Just in case you were wondering, animals seems to be just cats and dogs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnanimalide...
This feels funny to read, like from one of those inheritance tutorials on object oriented programming
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> it seems developers are mostly porting web apps to all platforms ignoring neat but platform specific apis like this. I would be weird to have your social app trying to correct your pose ;)
> I would be weird to have your social app trying to correct your pose ;) It would be less weird for it to call home so that Z*ck knows to serve you ads for painkillers for your spine...
The latent point is that most applications don't need specific APIs for their value propositions, why it would not make sense to write them in a native framework that enables these APIs.
I remember when pose detection was announced, showing an app that corrected your workout movements. i have yet to see an app that actually does that. i'd love to have the equivalent of a personal trainer showing me where i need to adjust my pose in say pushups or other simple excercies. thus im equally sceptical of seeing these apis used. it seems developers are mostly porting web apps to all platforms ignoring neat…
The “there’s an app for that” world where small to medium sized teams can build a very iOS native app that takes advantage of the latest and greatest of the device is long gone. It’s kinda weird how Apple doesn’t realize this and continues to build for that world. Maybe if they were willing to shift on their % for devs that do build that way but unless they did there just isn’t the audience buying apps outright and t…
The problem with that world view is that (a) everything with a network effect can't target a single platform anymore, and (b) the business model for old-school professional single-user apps was killed by the App Store.
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> I would be weird to have your social app trying to correct your pose ;) It would be less weird for it to call home so that Z*ck knows to serve you ads for painkillers for your spine...
This comment seems to be unrelated to the subject. Is there a specific reason you mention it (along with the down vote I take is also from you, given your passive aggressive tone)? The latent point is that most applications don't need specific APIs for their value propositions, why it would not make sense to write them in a native framework that enables these APIs.
Isn't it obvious? It's tech companies and mobile ecosystem. Everything that can be used for ads and surveillance, will be used for ads and surveillance.
Pose detection can provide a lot of insights about the user's overall health. All the unscrupulous players now need is some bullshit reason to convince the user to a) install their app, and b) use the feature. Like, idk, high-fidelity dancing AR avatars to use as stickers on social media (a real thing, btw.).
Apple may or may not make this hard, but it's a real thing to be concerned about. Arguably, it's the most obvious use case, given the state of this industry.
Just in case you were wondering, animals seems to be just cats and dogs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnanimalide...
Horses will probably be next
Just in case you were wondering, animals seems to be just cats and dogs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnanimalide...
Where are the actual bindings? Linking to a page with lots of long videos that are mostly not available (it says "Available on June 6" (or 7,8,9) with a editorialized title that is not even on the page is below HN standards.
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The “there’s an app for that” world where small to medium sized teams can build a very iOS native app that takes advantage of the latest and greatest of the device is long gone. It’s kinda weird how Apple doesn’t realize this and continues to build for that world. Maybe if they were willing to shift on their % for devs that do build that way but unless they did there just isn’t the audience buying apps outright and t…
> It’s telling to me that the biggest tech apps of the last 2 years all ran web/desktop first. What are the two apps that you are referring to? No snark just curious. Because the only thing I can think of are video calls or social media (which are arguably older than two years).
Think 5-8 years ago at least one of them would have been app first.