Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model, The Information reports. Apple was...
  • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Why does this feel like another “voice assistant” that we’re supposed to talk to all day?

    If we worked from home, maaaayyybe voice control could be a thing once it’s 100%? But Boss Man wants us back at work. Are we really going to be a open-office with everyone talking to their computer like some sort of crypto bro boiler room?

    It’s sorta like the “video phone” that everyone was dying to have for decades. We finally got it and everyone went “meh”. A few grandparents use it to talk to their grandkids. Hell, most of the current generations don’t even use phones anymore.

    It’s one more technology that’s being pushed out before it’s baked and will likely be only really useful in niche applications. Really fucking good for those niche applications, but just too expensive and awkward for anyone else.

      • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, FaceTime. But how often do people use it in practice?

        Good point about Zoom. Business clearly like Zoom for meetings, but big business is still hammering BTO hard. Will Zoom be marginalized when they finally force in-person meetings?

        Also, the last few companies I worked for that did Zoom meetings, everyone kept their cameras off.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I still don’t understand how Windows got the PC name. A Mac is also a personal computer…

      Also, apple isn’t going to make it work with other OSs any more than they have their other products, not sure why you’d even list that.

      • immutable@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        In case you are wanting the history. IBM actually coined the term PC with their IBM Personal Computers

        At the time most computing platforms were incompatible. Software written for a commodore computer wouldn’t work with an apple computer wouldn’t work with an IBM PC.

        The IBM PC was popular enough though that people started building “pc compatible” machines. A very popular configuration for this was intel chips with Microsoft DOS. While these machines started out as “pc compatible” after a while the IBM PC wasn’t a big deal anymore so saying “we are compatible with a machine released in 1981” just slowly morphed into “it’s a PC” as shorthand for “intel chipset with Microsoft OS”

        Now why didn’t apple get the pc moniker? At the time when the IBM PC launched apple was actively building and selling their own computers and weren’t interested in making them IBM PC clones so they never went out and marketed themselves as “pc compatible” because for the most part they were not.

        Thanks for attending my Ted talk

        • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Thanks for the history, very interesting! I still hate how the term is used today and refuse to use it.

          • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Nowadays I mostly think of it in regards to how much control you have over the hardware. If you can Ship of Theseus your way to a completely different machine with completely different specs, that’s a PC to me. If you’re stuck with what you paid for, then it’s something else. A Mac Mini is not a PC in my book, but a Hackintosh is even though it’s the same OS and general hardware architecture.

            But that’s just how I use the term.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      5 months ago
      • Don’t make it out of a solid chunk of aluminium and glass so it weighs a ton and has nothing to balance it out on the back.