Apple Vision Pro is doomed – no really, it’s true
It used to seem like headlines were supposed to sum up a story. Even before the Vision Pro was released, we were treated to this headline from the Washington Post. “Apple’s new Vision Pro is a privacy mess waiting to happen” Before going into details, does her like any Apple product for you? …you may […]
It used to seem like headlines were supposed to sum up a story.
Even before the Vision Pro was released, we were treated to this headline from the Washington Post.
“Apple’s new Vision Pro is a privacy mess waiting to happen”
Before going into details, does her like any Apple product for you?
…you may want to know that this device collects more data than any other personal device I have ever seen.
Does he collect it? Maybe. But you could say that Face ID collects your face and Touch ID collects your fingerprint. Point is what does he do after that?.
[Google] Glass was so reviled that the nickname given to people who wore it was Glassholes. Now maybe we need to prepare ourselves for Vision Bros.
Okay, the Macalope really likes this one.
Most of my concerns about Vision Pro are, at this point, speculative.
Well, better put them in the pages of a major national periodical with a salacious title, then! Time is wasted!
Who has access to the maps these devices make of our homes and the data about how we move our bodies?
Oh, the Macalope knows this one. Because he watched Apple’s Vision Pro keynote and then read the company’s Vision Pro privacy PDF.
…visionOS also maps your surroundings on the device…
This means it doesn’t send it to applications.
In addition to offering the existing data privacy permissions of our other platforms, visionOS includes control over sharing hand movement and environmental data with apps.
It turns out that the company that uses privacy as a marketing tool is also very concerned about privacy, if only because they are using it as a marketing tool.
Now this may be true. The two-week returns window was in effect last Friday for those who purchased their Vision Pro on day one, so if “Apple fans” weren’t sure it was worth the relatively high price, the end of the Last week was the time to call him.
But if you want to write this title, you should back it up better than The Verge. Because if you look at the “Apple fans” they list, it seems unlikely that you can reach them via the email address jobzrulz@mac.com. In the list we have The Verge’s own product manager, the CEO of an AI company, an engineer working in cryptocurrency, a random Reddit user (probably the most Apple fan of the lot) , a Google employeeand a tech influencer whose pinned tweet shows him sitting in a Tesla holding a Samsung foldable and saying, “Hard to deny that Samsung is winning right now.” »
They don’t make Apple fans like they used to.
Now, maybe some of these people would surprise us with their fervor for Apple products, but let’s just say this group would make a really weird MUG.
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Yet many of their concerns seem entirely valid. If the horny man had shelled out $3,500 for a device and found that it made him nauseous and gave him red eyes and headaches, he’d return that too. And, as the article notes, these are not uncommon complaints about VR headsets in general and Macalope has seen them elsewhere as side effects of using the Vision Pro.
It seems likely that Apple has made a better VR headset than previously available, probably even with fewer side effects. But it still has side effects for some users and at such a high price, why would someone who suffers from it keep it?
Still, it would be nice if the things said in the title had a more solid factual basis. Maybe on the next Internet.
