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Post by aaplsauce on Jan 4, 2022 22:38:30 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on Jan 5, 2022 7:18:56 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on Jan 5, 2022 9:10:33 GMT -8
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Post by JDSoCal on Jan 5, 2022 11:07:24 GMT -8
IMO, this is the next big thing (and I have believed so for some time):Gotta love the comparison of creepy Borg you will be assimilated Google product vs stylish Apple product that my niece just told me she would wear: Head's up display: Also of note, supposedly the new VR Goggles will have AR pass-through. Perhaps a beta test of the AR Apple Glasses mentioned supra right under above our noses. Edit: One working theory is that Apple only seeds these to developers, to build interest, without shipping a not-ready-for-primetime product. Like how Apple TV started out as a "hobby." As was posted yesterday (and I totally scrolled past and missed), the direct retinal projector patent might be the next generation of these glasses, or, perhaps, any glasses with an Apple Eye Projector™ device clipped onto them. This is also something that I have predicted for some time. My only question is, how to project on the eye without looking like a Borg. I want to emphasize, the next Big Thing is not VR, it is AR. Tim has already said this out loud more than once.
Product iterations: VR Goggles with AR passthrough > AR Apple Glasses > Direct beam into retina device > Elon Musk-like direct connect into brain?
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Post by chinacat on Jan 5, 2022 11:34:52 GMT -8
Well, JD, from the message in the second picture it sure seems like you are certainly plugged in to the development of this product . Please do keep us informed.
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Post by aaplsauce on Jan 5, 2022 13:22:18 GMT -8
Looks like Santa Claus took the Rally back.
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Post by aaplcrazie on Jan 5, 2022 13:27:04 GMT -8
Bah Humbug No Rally for you!
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Post by archibaldtuttle on Jan 5, 2022 13:36:54 GMT -8
Fed taking away the punch bowl
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 5, 2022 15:44:49 GMT -8
I know it just doesn't matter in the long or mid term, but these short term negative days always bug a bit.
Related to yesterday's discussion on search, when we were visiting the grandparents over xmas, we were using my wife's MacBook air which was set to use Chrome. I'm used to Safari, where often if you start typing in the URL, at some point it completes it for you and can bring you there. There are times that it does a search instead, but it seems it mostly brings you to the website. With Chrome OTOH, it seemed to mostly bring you to a google search.
This would be for the likes of typing in "cnn" and having Safari bring you to cnn.com, vs Chrome doing a google search for cnn.
A little self serving. That seems worse to me than Apple getting a little something for setting the default search engine.
May greener days be in AAPL's future.
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Post by CdnPhoto on Jan 5, 2022 17:51:33 GMT -8
Thing to test out is your network speed with Chrome.
Try going to speedtest.net with chrome, firefox and Safari. You'll find Chrome to be significantly slower than the others.
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 5, 2022 20:18:07 GMT -8
Thing to test out is your network speed with Chrome. Try going to speedtest.net with chrome, firefox and Safari. You'll find Chrome to be significantly slower than the others. Not at one of the grandparents. I'd swear they had fiber, but it's probably just fast Cable as opposed to our slow version. I don't even remember what updates I ran, but I went ahead and updated 10 or 20 apps, in seconds. Up in the mountains, that is something we can only dream of. I upgraded an iPad to iOS 15.2 tonight, and it initially said 23 minutes. I just accept that, but it might be just 2 minutes elsewhere. FWIW, we had a guy on the server team that wrote up bugs on software updates being too big, showing how much smaller it could be just with getting rid of extra unused or non-optimized stuff. And in our lab, we had an ISDN line (which didn't see much use, aside potentially from someone trying to get around things that would raise eyebrows, but that's just second hand speculation). It's easy to forget about the normal users download speeds, if you have a very fast connection both at work and at home. And that's not even bringing up those out there that actually have slow connections. Cable isn't everywhere, hence SpaceX's entry into internet connections. Back to Chrome, I thought in times long ago (5 years?) they were duking it out with being fast, but maybe I'm mistaken or that has changed. I think she normally uses Firefox, and just had multiple browsers open to get appointments for vaccines for multiple family members at once. One of the browsers does better than Safari at individualizing tab power requirements, and showing when one spins out of control. While I might badmouth Safari about not doing even better on that front, I currently have 119 tabs open on Safari, plus 3 on Firefox, so it's not doing too bad.
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