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I always have a little chuckle when I see people holding a tiny delicate smartphone in a massive fat case to protect it from the damage it will inevitably take in normal use. I always think that it would have been better if they had just made the phone itself a little tougher!
> "Greater China" Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them. This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics. > "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in national…
Just like how they removed all the gay dating apps in China yesterday (by request of the government of course). So sad to watch a gay CEO just sit comfortably and allow his company quietly destroy his own “community”. Don’t get me started on SA either…
His community are elites and money.
> "Greater China" Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them. This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics. > "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in national…
it's so ugly that it shows their desperation, who would ever need this?
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The iPhone Pocket is not even the first baffling knitted thing (BKT) they released this year. That award would go to the "Dual Knit Band" https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-vision-pro-upgr...
Nah I'll give them credit for that one, the dual knit band is what the Vision Pro should have shipped with in the first place. The original designs were the baffling ones, you had to choose between a fancy knitted band without any top support, or a cheap band with top support, but now you get the best of both in one. Which you really want for such a heavy headset.
If you don't know the backstory: New Coke had a sweeter formula than Coke Classic. And, as the original "Pepsi challenge" [1975] demonstrated a decade prior to New Coke [1985], people tend to prefer a sweeter drink when they're only being given a 15ml sip of it. New Coke's initial user testing was essentially a "New Coke challenge" — giving people 15ml sips of Coke Classic vs New Coke — and this led them to believe that this sweeter formula would be popular. But as demonstrated by later attempted replications of the "Pepsi challenge", the preference for sweeter drinks goes away when people get a full mouthful of the beverage; let alone when they're handed a full glass to drink as they please. It never seemingly occurred to Coke to do another round of "full-scale" testing, with testers being given full glasses of New Coke to drink (perhaps with ice; perhaps with food; perhaps chilled, perhaps warm... etc), before green-lighting the formula for production.
Same thing seemed to happen to Apple with the Vision Pro's original band. You don't tend to notice the strain of headset's weight pressing down onto your face at first; it only becomes apparent after ~10-15 minutes of use. It was likely that both their user-testing sessions, and their shareholder demo sessions, were short. (The final retail demo they walk you through is certainly short!)
You wouldn't think that this could be true of the Vision Pro, because it was a very-clearly dogfooded product: Apple made this thing first-and-foremost for Apple engineers, to allow their hardware design teams to work remotely during COVID. (That's why they shipped a "Pro" SKU first; the "Pro" SKU was what they needed.) Many of those same engineers were likely wearing prototypes of the Vision Pro to design later revisions of the Vision Pro.
My guess, though, is that early revisions didn't have all of visionOS (especially the computer-interaction parts) finished yet; and therefore, the Vision Pro was, at the time, really just serving as a peripheral for viewing of spatially-AR-embedded 3D objects (i.e. their hardware prototypes). The workflow likely looked like: edit and collaborate in a CAD program, with the headset off; save their changes; push the 3D model to the headset; pop the headset on; check out their changes ("do a walk around" of the object); take the headset back off; and go back to editing/collaborating on their computer.
Obviously, the original band would have worked just fine for that workflow!
I always have a little chuckle when I see people holding a tiny delicate smartphone in a massive fat case to protect it from the damage it will inevitably take in normal use. I always think that it would have been better if they had just made the phone itself a little tougher!
funny thing - every 2 years gorilla glass creates a tougher one. and the phone makers then make the glass thinner, thus erasing the durability gain
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> but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. It depends on how much you earn. I don’t mind spending tens of thousands on Loro Piana cashmere because it’s really nice, but at my income level the price difference between that and Zara is pretty much immaterial. Keep in mind that HN is packed with people with salaries above $1M/yr and entr…
In this job market, in this political environment, with Luigi Mangione a Bonnie-and-Clyde-tier folk hero, the bit you quoted was perhaps a clue to the lack of wisdom in humblebragging that you spend a family's annual food budget on 5 pounds of spun sheep keratin. I imagine that I will be the bad guy for pointing this out. (Perhaps even to myself, considering that there's certainly utility in rich people yapping incau…