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Personally I miss the smaller devices. I wish Apple still made a premium spec small phone.
I'd settle for any small iphone in their lineup.
Same here! Really enjoyed 12 mini.
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#712My biggest gripe with AR products is that they will just become a tool to spoil the real world with ads everywhere. No thanks.
Especially if monetization becomes a priority...
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There is always a comment saying Apple is much worse than people think compared to Facebook or Google. But there are never any Sources. Google and Facebook track you wherever you go on the internet. You can't get away from it. Apple only shows ads in their App Store. And you can turn off Apples tracking in their Settings. How is that "Much worse than you think"?
Nitpick, but the comment said Apple is worse compared to what people think of Apple.
I don't think that's a nitpick, that kinda voids their point entirely.
Apple is a lot worse then most of their users believe - but even at their worst, they're leagues more privacy focused and less invasive then Google, Facebook and Microsoft are.
But they're still getting worse every year, and the time when they were actually torchbearers for privacy have slowly faded over the years as MBAs have strengthened their hold on the company and Steve Jobs influence waned.
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#714This is cool from a technical standpoint, but ultimately just feels like another gimmick. This feels like it's doing stuff that I could do faster or better (and definitely, more safely) on a computer or phone. I don't personally see the appeal of hands-free as a paradigm in most cases. Do we really want people talking on and looking at Zoom as they walk around the office? Or as they drive? Or as they are out shopping…
> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call? Honestly, people used to say the same thing about Bluetooth hands-free devices years ago, and now no one even bats an eye when someone talks using AirPods.
> no one even bats an eye
We absolutely do. And there are certain etiquettes that have evolved around airpods/ handsfree phone calls, that can make you weird or even rude to violate.
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Nick Clegg (public affairs guy at FB) is currently lobbying to get VR headsets on schoolchildren. I can't think of anything I want less than my kids wearing those things while in class all day. https://nickclegg.medium.com/how-the-metaverse-can-transform...
heh ... i'm frustrated that the schools my kids are going to aren't embracing this tech. the applications in education are absolutely mind blowing.
I can see both sides of the coin here. There's huge potential for both beneficial educational applications as well as huge potential for manipulation and getting people hooked on attention stealing technology.
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heh ... i'm frustrated that the schools my kids are going to aren't embracing this tech. the applications in education are absolutely mind blowing.
What are the applications in ed?
You can turn almost any abstract concept into a hands on experience. Imagine learning any mathematical concept as a liveable experience.
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#718For the record: I think this is going to be one of the posts where the HN vibe would be totally off (incorrectly negative) looking back 10 years from now. Similar to the original Dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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#719I want one of those wristbands bluetooth slaved to my Pixel!
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#720Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is always a comment saying Apple is much worse than people think compared to Facebook or Google. But there are never any Sources. Google and Facebook track you wherever you go on the internet. You can't get away from it. Apple only shows ads in their App Store. And you can turn off Apples tracking in their Settings. How is that "Much worse than you think"?
> There is always a comment saying Apple is much worse than people think compared to Facebook or Google. But there are never any Sources I'm not sure about much worse . It may depend on your own threat model. But here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40006508 https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-sur…
One of those links is a self-described conspiracy theory and another flat out says Google is worse.
Personally, I don’t think Apple is bad at all relative to Google/Meta and I’m probably technically “wrong” but those links don’t do much to prove it.