It's a gimmick product for $4000 released during cost of living crisis. There is no universe in which this makes sense. I know that Apple is pushing hard for the whole "spatial computing" or whatever thing, but this is not how people want to use VR. The only thing Vision Pro excels at is showing you how it feels to be buying a computer if you live in a poor country and you're the first person in the village to spend two entire salaries on a device that has no clear practical use cases besides entertainment but your kid spent six months telling you otherwise. That porn though, totally worth it.
Also, importantly it’s had a very limited release. US only till this last week. Supposedly only 450k units available this year in total, which in the grand scheme is a very low distribution likelihood among a given demographic.
Truly, just too many other things I would rather spend $4000 on than a first generation Apple product. Hopefully the next revision can start at $2000, more palatable.
Something like the Quest link cable and SteamVR support would also be tremendous, but I'm not holding my breath on that.
Everything being more legible on the AVP would make it even better. However, it’s also controlling some Windows things that I don’t think would be permitted on macOS.
I don’t have one to be able to test Steam Link or anything similar.
I wonder what the advantage is of a blood based test over existing saliva based hereditary cancer screens (that do genome sequencing instead of 23andme type array testing).
I’m curious if there is a user segment truly interested in this feature/product and what their use case is. Naively this feels like a situation of “why on earth would you do this?”
For what it's worth, I think I am. I got a gift voucher from work a little while back, combined it with a few other gift vouchers I had lying around and bought a convertible ChromeOS tablet. It seemed like a good choice, since I didn't have a tablet form-factor device at the time, it was a lightweight ARM thing that could natively run Android apps and Linux apps, and it ran a mostly-OSS stack including open source graphics drivers. I found it way more appealing than the equivalent devices running Android or Windows.
As soon as I got it home, I realized that all my passwords and bookmarks were in my Firefox account, and I remembered that I don't really like the idea of using Chromium-based browsers on the web for philosophical reasons. I tried to install Firefox, but the Linux version didn't work too well in tablet mode, so I had to suck it up and use Chrome. Kind of dumb on my part, I know, but I still like the device, and I'd like it even more if Firefox worked better on it.
I can see it being useful in a corporate setting to limit which sites you can visit with Chrome to just your secure admin panels and internal apps. Then use Firefox to go to dangerous places like… the Internet.
That way if one of your users clicks a link in a phishing email Chrome simply won’t open it.
I wouldn’t hold out on paypal coming to US Stripe integration. I believe it’s available in Europe because of legislation requiring Paypal to support this.
I don't think it's because of regulation. PSD2 related open-banking regulations are broadly about letting customers have access to their bank's functions via API.
> PayPal enables XS2A use cases for TPPs through PayPal’s REST stack. Through PayPal's reliable and proven APIs, TPPs can access the same PayPal systems that power all of PayPal's merchant and consumer experiences.
Stripe isn't a TPP and even if it were to use an external TPP (Tink, Truelayer etc) to allow users to initiate a transaction from a user's PayPal account (similar to A2A transfer), it would be significantly "less integrated" of an experience. There are many problems with the UX around Open Banking A2A payments and it would harm conversion. Because of these reasons, I think it's a bespoke integration/deal between Stripe and Paypal
Based on other commenters, it seems like PayPal was widely preferred as a payment mechanism in Europe, so Stripe had to offer it to remain competitive.
That competitive pressure isn't nearly as strong in the US, and Stripe would be loath to be sending money to their direct competitor if they don't have to.
FTC recently levied a half billion dollar fine against Fortnite.
The positions they're taking on AI are conservative and very basic (read: clear) because they're a foundation that the FTC will continue to build upon.
Hostile nation states will be dealt with by the CIA and DoD. Gangs will be dealt with by the CIA & FBI. Etc.
FTC is communicating to the businesses under its purview that they can and will levee massive fines over this stuff.
Anyone who's worked at a large tech company can tell you that the FTC is taken very seriously.
