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Post by CdnPhoto on Jan 19, 2024 4:08:46 GMT -8
Wow, that was a great day. Wanna do it again? AAPL is currently trading at $190.12 +1.49 (+0.79%) RSI is 51.60 RSI for DOW is 58.74
Is there any news out today? Oh, yea.. there some product being available for order. Who's ordering it?
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Post by CdnPhoto on Jan 19, 2024 4:14:37 GMT -8
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Post by Luckychoices on Jan 19, 2024 5:38:55 GMT -8
Wow, that was a great day. Wanna do it again? AAPL is currently trading at $190.12 +1.49 (+0.79%) RSI is 51.60 RSI for DOW is 58.74 Is there any news out today? Oh, yea.. there some product being available for order. Who's ordering it? Done. But my wife and I don’t pick ours up until February 5th. Her appointment is 10am and mine is at 11. Very smooth process, however the time slots got filled fast for Apple Park preventing a successful purchase…so we moved to a different Apple Store. Fortunately for AAPL investors, the time slots filled up quickly there as well. 👍😎
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Post by benoir on Jan 19, 2024 5:56:27 GMT -8
Wow, that was a great day. Wanna do it again? AAPL is currently trading at $190.12 +1.49 (+0.79%) RSI is 51.60 RSI for DOW is 58.74 Is there any news out today? Oh, yea.. there some product being available for order. Who's ordering it? Done. But my wife and I don’t pick ours up until February 5th. Her appointment is 10am and mine is at 11. Very smooth process, however the time slots got filled fast for Apple Park preventing a successful purchase…so we moved to a different Apple Store. Fortunately for AAPL investors, the time slots filled up quickly there as well. 👍😎 Nice work! Not an option on this side of the planet.
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Post by macster on Jan 19, 2024 6:18:25 GMT -8
Wow, that was a great day. Wanna do it again? AAPL is currently trading at $190.12 +1.49 (+0.79%) RSI is 51.60 RSI for DOW is 58.74 Is there any news out today? Oh, yea.. there some product being available for order. Who's ordering it? Done. But my wife and I don’t pick ours up until February 5th. Her appointment is 10am and mine is at 11. Very smooth process, however the time slots got filled fast for Apple Park preventing a successful purchase…so we moved to a different Apple Store. Fortunately for AAPL investors, the time slots filled up quickly there as well. 👍😎 Did you need corrective lenses? And if so, how was the process with entering the prescription? Curious 👀
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Post by dmiller on Jan 19, 2024 6:56:33 GMT -8
Ordered, for delivery on February 2nd.
I already had my prescription scanned into the Health app. Facial scanning was typical, like FaceID. The entire order entry process was smooth.
(As in “just take my money”, seriously).
I didn’t order the base configuration. 1TB - at this point “why not”, only $200 more than 512GB.
AppleCare+ $$$$expensive but for a first generation product, and with a form factor and complexity that one might see leading to more than the usual breakage - somewhat understandable.
I was going to buy an M3 laptop this year but it wasn’t really a necessity. I may wait now until next year “just because”…
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 19, 2024 7:10:29 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Jan 19, 2024 7:11:38 GMT -8
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Post by dmiller on Jan 19, 2024 7:40:20 GMT -8
Other things….
Not sure if there’s any real advantage to have ordered for pickup? Seemed easier to me to have it delivered.
Not sure whether inserts or contacts will prove to be better, and maybe in different ways. I may also end up getting the reading inserts after I try them with contacts, if “close vision” ends up being needed.
A 2nd batter is another $200; instead, could also just use a longer USBC charging cord to have more “distance” on power.
Netflix watching will apparently have to be over the web - annoying but still functional.
Curious to see how much better the viewing experience will be “natively” for AppleTV+ content.
Wondering if at least Hulu will have a native app. Now -that- would help.
Same comment about Max.
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Post by pauls on Jan 19, 2024 8:10:28 GMT -8
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 19, 2024 8:27:03 GMT -8
By 7:15PT or so it looks like all the 256 gig models are sold out, with no times lots but delivery available at the start of March. The 512 gig and 1T models could still be picked up in early Feb, with days a little further out in the SF Bay but the Reno and most Sacramento stores having availability the first day.
Now at 8:15 PT, all 3 levels show "unavailable for pickup", though free shipping March 1st thru 8th.
Ahhh, the problems with school drop off. Good thing I wasn't set on having one opening day.
As for questions about the process, the scanning tool had trouble on the second scan for me, but eventually worked. On the corrective lenses, it said most people didn't need them if using contacts, or things like blue filtering glasses. On reading glasses, it said you didn't need correction if using below a +0.75D.
Looks like the stock might hold to that close near 190. There are a lot of options there, with January expirations being one of the big ones. But holdback here might cause the often seen pattern of a dip in the first 30 minutes on Monday, and then a spring upwards.
And that would be aided by headlines of "Apple Vision Pro sells out" across the weekend newspapers and stories.
(EDIT: another 50 minutes later and delivery across all 3 models is still the start of March. My guess is that they are trying to have as many in-store pickups as possible, verifying fitting and maybe doing some initial setup (an article posted yesterday mentioned a 25 minute setup). If they do need 15-30 minute time slots, and they are still trying to leave spaces for on-site purchases, and only making reservations for the first week, I could see the problem and limitations. How many customers can be fitted? I bet it is all hands on deck that first week, if not longer.)
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Post by dmiller on Jan 19, 2024 8:31:26 GMT -8
New demo videos: www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/guided-tour/Plus two others on the site that follow. They’re finally starting to show more about the interaction with photos and video, and things like panoramas. I can hardly wait to use this.
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Post by ono on Jan 19, 2024 9:58:49 GMT -8
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 19, 2024 9:59:13 GMT -8
Nice to see a few extra names in the visitors list today.
It would be great if everyone tried to post at least one thing. Like what Apple product you have really enjoyed lately, if you are interested in or buying an Apple Vision Pro, or what features you hope are added to it or other Apple products in the coming year.
Happy day! Though expect a decent probability that the stock will lower to $190 by the close.
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Post by Luckychoices on Jan 19, 2024 10:36:51 GMT -8
Done. But my wife and I don’t pick ours up until February 5th. Her appointment is 10am and mine is at 11. Very smooth process, however the time slots got filled fast for Apple Park preventing a successful purchase…so we moved to a different Apple Store. Fortunately for AAPL investors, the time slots filled up quickly there as well. 👍😎 Did you need corrective lenses? And if so, how was the process with entering the prescription? Curious 👀 We had cataract surgery about 6 months ago, macster, and our vision is better than it was previously...but since we haven't had our eyes tested yet to get a *new* prescription, we didn't have a chance to try that part. Fortunately, according to dmiller's experience, it appears to not be a problem.
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Post by CdnPhoto on Jan 19, 2024 11:16:01 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Jan 19, 2024 11:18:11 GMT -8
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Post by Luckychoices on Jan 19, 2024 11:22:41 GMT -8
This is a writeup this morning from Daring Fireball. I always value what John Gruber has to say about *anything* Apple related...I also appreciate that *he* reads what Bloomberg has to say so I don't need to read their crapola. 😎 =============== YOUTUBE AND SPOTIFY ARE NOT LAUNCHING VISION PRO APPS EITHER ★Mark Gurman and Ashley Carman, reporting for Bloomberg (Gurman has been killing it this week on the Vision Pro apps beat — he’s breaking all of these stories):
Google’s YouTube and Spotify Technology SA, the world’s most popular video and music services, are joining Netflix Inc. in steering clear of Apple Inc.’s upcoming mixed-reality headset.
YouTube said in a statement Thursday that it isn’t planning to launch a new app for the Apple Vision Pro, nor will it allow its longstanding iPad application to work on the device — at least, for now. YouTube, like Netflix, is recommending that customers use a web browser if they want to see its content: “YouTube users will be able to use YouTube in Safari on the Vision Pro at launch.”
Spotify also isn’t currently planning a new app for visionOS — the Vision Pro’s operating system — and doesn’t expect to enable its iPad app to run on the device when it launches, according to a person familiar with matter. But the music service will still likely work from a web browser.
Spotify’s fuck-you to Apple I don’t find surprising, given the longstanding animosity between them. But YouTube is a surprise to me, and it’s a sign of how profoundly different the relationship is between Google and Apple today from the pre-Android era. In 2007, before third-party apps were even supported on iOS, YouTube was a built-in app on the original iPhone. (Apple designed and made the app; Google provided the back-end APIs and, obviously, the content.) Then-Google-CEO (and then-Apple-board-member!) Eric Schmidt was invited on stage by Steve Jobs to demo the YouTube app and sing the praises of both the iPhone and the Apple-Google partnership. That Apple-made Google-supported YouTube app was still a built-in default app on iOS when the iPad launched in 2010.
So for both the original iPhone and iPad, YouTube was part of the system software. For Vision Pro, there’s no app at all, not even the iPad app.
Regarding Netflix’s pass on Vision Pro, a little birdie informed me that until this week, the Netflix iPad app was available for those with access to Vision Pro hardware, and it worked just fine. This birdie still has the Netflix iPad app installed on their Vision Pro. Perhaps people at Netflix would disagree with just how well it worked — I don’t know — but I get the strong impression that the decision was political/strategic/spiteful, not technical. Entertainment is not the sole purpose of Vision Pro, but it’s a major one — and surely the primary one for many buyers — and it’s launching without the two biggest video entertainment apps in the world. Apple expected Netflix’s iPad app to be there on launch day.
This isn’t a dealbreaker — watching Netflix through Safari should be OK (albeit without offline downloads, a huge factor for using Vision Pro on airplanes), and many people think of YouTube as a website, not an app. But there’s no way around it: this is a bad look for Apple, not for Netflix or Google. The buck stops with Tim Cook on this. He should have been on the horn with Ted Sarandos and Sundar Pichai and worked this out. It’s his company that’s launching a $3,500 headset.
It’s also worth pointing out that these corporate pissing matches are reciprocal. I doubt we’ll see any calls for Netflix, YouTube, or Spotify to be investigated by antitrust regulators over their refusal to allow their iPad apps to run on Vision Pro. But imagine if Netflix and Spotify wanted to be on Vision Pro on launch day and Apple refused, to leave more room in the spotlight for Apple TV+ and Apple Music. Or what happens if the Vision platform becomes a huge hit, and only then do Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify submit native apps — and Apple turns them down, on the grounds of “Where were you when we needed you?” People would lose their shit. We might even get a testy tweet from Elizabeth Warren.
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Post by ono on Jan 19, 2024 11:35:16 GMT -8
eBay: 779 results for Apple Vision Pro
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Post by Dave on Jan 19, 2024 13:13:01 GMT -8
Resistance is futile!
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Post by ems on Jan 19, 2024 14:20:05 GMT -8
I think it’s to apples advantage that garbage like YouTube and Netflix are not part of the launch. They’re pretty much rubbish anyway, just waiting to be disintermediated by Apple TV and other solutions from Apple directly. Even on the computer I don’t bother with them anymore it’s easier to just pirate whatever’s needed, faster, and cheaper than dealing with their hassles of content, restrictions, and other nonsense. YouTube’s app has been hot garbage for a long time, even in the android world, everybody uses revanced, or some other version that strips out the YouTube rubbish, allows downloads, skip ads, etc.
I don’t have plans for a vision pro at the moment, but it does look like a superior piece of hardware. A world above all the current VR headsets by far. Not having a ton of third-party content is really not a downside, it allows Apple to show off what their native apps and content are like and how much better they are than any third-party nonsense anyway. If anything, and widens their moat in that regard.
Personally I am most enjoying the AWU2 lately. Whomever said the real hobby with the watch was collecting bands was spot-on! Only a month in and I have gone through at least 9 bands (returned maybe 3-4 of those).
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 19, 2024 16:34:54 GMT -8
Yep, guess things didn't get pulled back to 190. I'm ok with guessing wrong on that. I was down the hill at Costco. Picked up a Watch. They have a lot fewer choices in-store, so selection was easy for both me and the couple that was also selecting one. I guess I wasn't on the ball...I should have been asking the clerk and the lock room person how many of these they've been selling in the last week and last month. And with the husband of the couple talking up his huge Garmin watch, this would have been the time to ask nicely what he liked best about it, or be devilish by asking "Oh, have they added crash and fall detection? What about SOS, if something happens outside of cell coverage." Guess I was a little tired and rushed. But dang, they do have a lot of sports tracking features on the fancy ones: www.garmin.com/en-US/p/735611/pn/010-02540-00 It's different having something on my wrist after so many years without, and my wife is taking bets on when it is going to be hers. Also strange to have it on my left wrist, but using the digital crown when on my right was clunky. We'll see. So far the pulse readings, oxygen readings, and EKG say I am alive, so that's good. We'll see what it does once there is a sub-50 HR. But it looks nice, even with whatever default screen it is giving me, and I could see how not having it always on with an older model would bug. Nice that Apple and the market is getting a bump. The talk of US and other governments bugging Apple worries me a little, but even if they do it would probably take years to come to a resolution, based on past timeframes. If that's one of the worst wall of worry items, then things aren't too bad.
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Post by ems on Jan 20, 2024 7:35:03 GMT -8
The watch is reversible, you can have the crown on whatever side you want regardless of what wrist you’re wearing it on.
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Post by 4aapl on Jan 20, 2024 7:56:55 GMT -8
The watch is reversible, you can have the crown on whatever side you want regardless of what wrist you’re wearing it on. Thanks, I might give that a try. It does seem to fit better on my right wrist, even though I'm right handed. Back when wearing a watch, I always wore it on that side. Ahhh, the fun of new things. You Apple Vision Pro people are going to have a blast! Mark out plenty of time on the calendar now.
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Post by zebrum on Jan 20, 2024 11:14:20 GMT -8
The $180s looked pretty dire last week, its amazing how fast things can turn around. Hopefully next week we finally go over $200!
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