All of the selling points listed were absolutely true in 1990 with NextStep running on the cube and slab. But costs have come down and performance has gone up. User base grew a lot in absolute terms and percentage of the market.

- 45% of CIOs describe their leadership's view of Macs as a strategic investment, reflecting growing executive-level buy-in.
- The top drivers for Apple adoption are security and privacy (59%), employee preference (59%), and hardware performance (54%).
- Perhaps most importantly, 65% of CIOs say Macs are easier to manage than Windows or Linux devices.

Computerworld has never been a mac publication. In fact, it was strictly a Windows propaganda for the years it was in print. I say propaganda because journals discussing Windows as a serious OS is not reflective of reality... its shoddy, insecure, high maintenance, and difficult to use... so any publication that spoke of it as a productivity platform was spreading disinformation.

I take issue with "Moving windows around is always a heavy operation" Stage Manager is a must have and you have tons of options for window managers such as Spectacle but turns out that the one Apple added to MacOS is pretty awesome. Window management in Apple Vision Pro is non-existant though.

I agree that Xcode is very unwieldy and always has been. But these days I mostly use AI, python, and a variety of other editors such as VScode, Cursor, BBEDIT, nano, etc.

Lack of cuda support for AI can be solved by self hosting a server running the NVidia GPU of your choice.

Complaining about the dock is silly. You dont even need to use it much. command-tab and command-spacebar you're done.

Depending on Windows for anything is a fools errand. I mean you have reboot daily to straighten out driver issues. The Windows UI is a mess (and apple isnt nearly as polished as it could be but is still way better than windows).

Try loading it in Safari instead of Edge. :-)

Fake news: The summary says these machines are noisy. The machine is basically silent, background noise of HVAC is louder. When they are worn without leaks, the mask should be quiet too.

I doubt the pill will be as effective as CPAP/BiPAP but im curious what happens when the patient uses both?

Upgrading spinning rust, PCIe, and RAM would require site visits.

The issue is rent for a place to put the rack when the business model is collapsing. The guy who upgrades the hw was probably let go.

I just took the time to read most his 2022 post and it didnt hold up very well. He illustrates why gpt 3 is a dead end but I just tried the exact example on gpt 4o and it passed with flying colors.

The premise is that scaling wonâ(TM)t work and that the world is overly focused on the LLM approach.

He claims tagging images wont work well enough for radiology. Fine but companies like Surona medical seem to be still around years later.

He claims that image tagging wont work but an iPhone does an amazing job of identifying species of things in nature⦠absolutely amazing. And you can now generate captions for image locally on an old MacBook using hugging face models. Itâ(TM)s not perfect but I can be sure that itâ(TM)s made a ton of progress since 2022. So the world isnt just focused on llms these are computer vision models.

Suno is generating mediocre music, far better than it did last year when it was abysmal and some music AI didnt even have language two years ago. Now you can generate country music about retiring your toothbrush that sounds legit.

Finally computer coding is obviously working quite well.

He makes the old tripe of the probabilistic stochastic parrot not having comprehension. Sorry but I believe thats how the human brain works as well.

Thatâ(TM)s something your parents would say! /s

I have an AVP and I agree with this comment. Sports and weight are areas of focus. But the device is already doing just fine. There are plenty of reasons to iterate it.

MoonPlayer justifies the entire price of the Apple Vision Pro. There you go, a single app makes the whole thing worthwhile. Another one would be the YouTube safari extension enabling you to watch YouTube on a 20 foot screen. Itâ(TM)s knock your socks off amazing. Spatial photos in the Apple Photos app are incredible. The environments are pretty phenomenal too.

Ridiculous argument. Absolutely nobody uses HoloLens. And the fov of HoloLens was useless.Vision Pro has a wide fov by comparison and FoV is certainly not a weak spot. Vision Pro has an active user base and itâ(TM)s selling fast enough to be profitable this year⦠paying for 8 years of development in just a year or two.

Customers love it though. Go to r/VisionPro

It is stunning for immersive video. You are transported to another place with full suspension of disbelief. But yes, itâ(TM)s also amazing as a virtual monitor and virtual movie screen.

True but also they need more computing power and efficiency. Smaller process architecture.

So much armchair quarterback here. You are making the old âoethe world only needs 100 computersâ argument. Vision Pro absolutely needs more horsepower for features and capabilities that havenâ(TM)t been revealed. For one, real time interpretation of hands and real time masking are very computationally intensive. Situational awareness and AI. Denoising video pass through. 16k immersive video playback. Real time ray tracing. Apple Vision Pro is absolutely awesome. What they need to do is lighten it up by going to titanium and offloading electronics to the battery pack. Get rid of the useless front facing screen obviously. Change the battery chemistry to solid state at some point when commercially viable. These are early days. Users love it so future iterations are going to be wildly profitable.