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Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but anyone feel like Apple is slowly having an...over-engineering problem?
The Apple Vision Pro, this... the new iPad Pros with FUCKING M4 CHIPS THAT ARE RUNNING IPADOS (??????)
Like what is happening in their product development department lately?
"If you can't reinvent the wheel, then just make the wheel more expensive." -Tim Apple, probably
I appreciate his proper name being used 🤗
Listen, I can't lie...my iPhone X is the best phone I've owned. Bought in 2017 and still going strong with promised support until 2026/27. I still have fond memories of "paying" my parents back for it (I was child labour 😀)
I bought a 14 pro and gave my nephew my X. Besides the island and the camera quality they are largely indistinguishable for almost all of my use-cases. And they are almost 5 years apart.
They need to take their talent and apply it to stuff that could actually use it, rather than rehashing stuff that is already good. An Apple clothes dryer that actually can sense dry clothes and doesn't break easily. An apple garage door that doesn't suck. An Apple Ebike that lasts ages and is repairable (and gets people out of their cars).
I think an Apple bidet could be neat. A toaster, too.
Did you just put "repairable" and "Apple" in the same sentence?
... I don't know if I trust Siri to wash my asshole tbh
Something tells me you wouldn't like the coming AssID feature either.
The bidet is under development. It is going to have cameras to confirm cleanliness using ai.
That would probably disrupt the brand too much.
I bought a fancy shmancy toaster and it sucks, matches my mixer but ruins my sammiches.
Will the camera look inside of your ear?
iWax
iWax on … iWax off
Yes and tell you your IQ, and notify your doctor that you don't wash in there.
First there were glassholes. Now we'll have earworms?
You mean butt plugs with cameras pointing onwards into it?
I would buy that
Let me guess. Add infrared cameras onto the Airpods, costing them very little extra, and using it as justification for an £80 price rise.
bringing "in-air" gestures to airpods
I can't wait for stories of people brushing their hair away and the earbuds take that as a sign to raise the volume too high or something equally dumb to happen because they won't be able to differentiate between a normal gesture meant for it and something not meant for it.
Gesture controls are cool, but what happens if they are too sensitive to movement or think gesture xyz is the same as gesture zyx?
Exactly... I have regular buds for running and I hate them because they inevitably shift around a bit and , when I try to get them back in place, they start misinterpreting my touch with whatever touch command they were preprogrammed
These ideas sound nice in the brainstorming room but, in my experience, have rarely panned out in practice
These already have IR sensors for gesture detection
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hy-concealed-smart-earbuds#/
Using cameras instead of simpler IR sensors are going to hurt battery life
I think the problem would be there aren’t sensitive enough and you have people walking around talking to themselves and waving their hands all around in frustration
If someone is wearing them you will never be truly certain if a bee is flying around them or not.
Cost as much as an iPhone
They haven't even thought of adding fans for the hot days. Is anyone even thinking of users at Apple?
Let's take low power a tech gadget that gets good battery life and make it no longer have good battery life. What a great idea.
And this is why the Humane Pin was always a dumb idea. Apple, Google, Samsung, etc just needed to license some LL and diffusion models, then slap camera on all the headphones they make. Boom - instant humane like experience that’s faster, lighter, better looking, has better battery, etc etc.
No futuristic projector UI, but that thing was pretty busted anyway.
The big problem with the humane pin was that it was trying to do processing on the teeny tiny device and that used all it's battery up in 15 mins generated 300 MW of heat.
Why not just use the phone in your pocket that's actually designed for this kind of data processing?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The $3 trillion company intends to mass-produce revamped earbuds with built-in infrared cameras by 2026, according to a new report from analyst and longtime Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo.
The cameras could help Apple shore up its current and future augmented-reality headsets with enhanced spatial audio features, the analyst wrote.
Citing a supply-chain survey, Kuo indicated that pairing these enhanced buds with Vision Pro goggles could make Apple’s spatial-computing experience more lifelike.
For folks not interested in dropping thousands on an Apple headset, the IR cameras could offer other perks, including bringing “in-air” gestures to AirPods, per Kuo.
The analyst’s report follows an earlier story from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which noted that Apple was looking into the idea of camera-powered AirPods.
After turning its minimalistic white buds into status symbol in the iPod era, Apple has gradually made them smarter over the years, adding features such as wireless connectivity, noise cancellation, head tracking, touch controls and voice commands.
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Ear pics now easier than ever
How about just better sound instead? You know, what headphones are actually for.
The worst part is that these could be the only option. Since airpods are designed to go bad after a few years Apple will interpret all of the replacements as "very successful sales"
