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mikecane

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Writer. Crank.

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fraying, to random
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Deactivated my bird account. A decade and a half of thoughts and feelings down the toilet. Fuck Elon and fuck everyone who ever called him smart.

mikecane,
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@fraying You didn't request your archive?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Everything I've seen about gaming on visionOS so far sounds like a โ€˜shit sandwichโ€™ situation; I'm kinda worried that they've built a system that just has no appeal to the kinds of people working on innovative gaming experiences on VR headsets. The Alan Dye 'this is not a toy; it's a real computer' comment definitely rubbed me up the wrong way โ€” it feels like this statement encapsulates the kind of corporate sentiment that has destroyed Apple's credibility in the gaming scene over the past decade

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith it still is.

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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Wait, what part of the IMAX control system is run off a PalmOS emulator?? ๐Ÿ˜ง https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ4go7XE/

/cc @thomholwerda

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith PalmOS Forever waves m515 in your iPhone's face /smug

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I still like to browse Dribbble from time to time; one thing that seems very clear is that app designs effectively evaporated into thin air after 2013. Designers who had previously been making beautifully rich โ€˜skeuomorphicโ€™ interfaces, for years, justโ€ฆ stopped. Many stopped posting app designs entirely, moving on to different areas instead โ€” branding, websites, glyphs, icons โ€” leaving software behind. It was an extinction level event; a decade later, we still haven't moved beyond it

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith Blame Jon I've.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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50M signups in the first day really puts all the other social network startups in perspective, huh

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith He started with over 2B people.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Hard to imagine Bluesky sticking around after this. At best, as an ActivityPub-compatible instance perhaps ๐Ÿ˜…

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith I've been yelling for 100 Bluesky invites. On Twitter, too many people going to Threads. I got one invite. Gave it to @brianroemmele for maximum impact. Their Android app is crashy shit. Web interface works.

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith I also told Jack he should be ready to onboard two million in three months. He probably laughed at that. Doubt he's laughing now.

mikecane, to random
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@stroughtonsmith You'd be shocked at how much I'm using Google Drive.

And what do you think of this?

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith So far too few details. Except you can expect to pay monthly rent for AI access!

shoq, to random
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Maybe we all died in an asteroid strike, we're all now in hell for the sin of ever having spoken to a Republican, and Elon Musk is Satan. This would explain so much. And it makes more sense than anything Joe Rogan has ever said.

mikecane,
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@shoq We all died and went to Hell on 9/11. Stop spreading misinformation.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Gut reaction: Apple has no business making a first-party crossword service ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ How can anybody compete with this being built-in? I don't see many paths forward beyond scrapping everything I was working on with my crossword app https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/20/apple-news-crossword-puzzles-ios-17/

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith Play with a buzzsaw, expect to be gutted. Have you ignored history?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Vision Pro is in many ways the Apple Lisa of Appleโ€™s spatial computing platform

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith And you saw how long LISA lasted. Save your $$$.

mikecane, to random
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Days later, it hits me. They never revealed which phones and tablets are able to get the new iOS and iPadOS! @stroughtonsmith @WarnerCrocker

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith @WarnerCrocker what about mini 5? iPhone SE?

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith @WarnerCrocker thanks!!

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I laughed at the โ€˜audible gaspโ€™ reaction clip from the WWDC audience when the Vision Pro pricing was announced, but has anybody posted something similar here such that I can boost? /cc @leo

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith @leo Very different gasp than the one of delight when original iPad was announced for $499.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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The focus on apps, not games, in the Vision Pro is just as much about where they want to go โ€” if Apple does bring this experience to seamless traditional augmented reality glasses down the road, it's not going to support those fully-immersive scenarios like VR gaming or movie watching in the mountains. You won't have chunky lenses with an amazing FOV, or a light shield. The whole visionOS experience will need to be distilled down to its essence โ€” floating apps, hand tracking, and copious sensors

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith if it lives that long.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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watchOS has got to version 10 without third-party watch faces, and I'm so done. My watch doesn't boot anymore and I have no plans to replace it. So many great teams working on great features for the platform, but all for nought when I canโ€™t pick a face I enjoy; I just tune out completely for the watch section of every keynote. There's no โ€˜iโ€™ in Apple Watch โ€” it's Appleโ€™s watch, not mine

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith Geez!

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I feel like a whole lot of R&D went into a gross misaligned uncanny valley outward-facing face display to please Jony Ive before he left and it somehow stuck all the way through to the launch of the product ๐Ÿ‘€ Does anybody who is spending $3,500 on a headset actually want that? Such a weird and unnecessary element that makes it seem even more off-putting to regular people ๐Ÿ˜…

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith Do you know why most aliens in Star Trek were humanoid? Not budget. Roddenberry said he wanted to see their eyes. TNG violated that once with fish aliens. Anyway, Cook must have taken that to heart. Wrongly!

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Here we go, Apple Vision Pro developer kits

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith I await you finding all the bugs that thwart its usefulness! Silly rabbit.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Apple has one huge new reason to build Xcode for iPad โ€” Vision Pro. Now that iPad apps share a codebase with visionOS, and given how they're pitching this headset as a fundamental new type of computing device, giving it a first-party IDE of its own seems like a no-brainer

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith You used the term headset. Now you're on Apple's blacklist.

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The real question is how far can they bring the price down for a cheaper consumer model; $1,499 with an A-series chip is still very high-end, but leaves all other headsets down in the sub-$1,000 space. Do you just abandon that price range? Or do you build a third product? Many questions about the future of Apple Vision

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith There is no future. It will be dead in 3 years and Cook will be kicked out.

mikecane, to random
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@stroughtonsmith Are you planning to buy Cook's Folly? Let's see if they do anything with AI.

mikecane, to random
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@stroughtonsmith Nvidia AI. What do you think? Passes Apple?

https://youtu.be/L6rJA0z2Kag

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith Video shows real-time ray tracing. Holy Amiga Ultra, Batman!

mikecane,
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@stroughtonsmith The Nvidia guy is up there with Jobs for presentation skills. How pathetic everyone else looks. Although Panos Panay of MS is also exceptional.

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