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The problem is that “don’t let people game you” is extremely difficult.

It’s many, many orders of magnitude easier to provide a useful search of sites that tell you the truth about what they are than it is when 99% of sites lie to you.

I’ve definitely noticed the results suck ass, but this is a nice breakdown.

That shouldn’t work. They should still be unconditionally liable for anything the rep said in all scenarios, with the sole exception being obvious sabotage like “we’ll give you a billion dollars to sign up” that the customer knows can’t be real.

“AR” has always been sci-fi. The details you’re discussing have never been part of the discussion because it was fiction.

This is far more AR than any of the shitty displays that project on glasses (all of which also are distorting and changing the light from the real world) and don’t have meaningful capacity to interact with the real world inputs. Any reasonable definition of AR absolutely is including the Apple Vision. It’s the real world, in real time, with all the inputs and processing capability required to interact with it.

All your other complaints have nothing whatsoever to do with your silly definition of AR made for the sole purpose of excluding the most exciting piece of tech in the space ever. Weight and battery capacity are also completely unrelated to any possible valid definition of what AR is.

They didn’t do a clear coat like everything else ever made lol.

Apple hasn’t called it AR.

But it absolutely is AR. If you can see the real world in real time, with additional information on top of it, that’s AR. Your requirement that it not be on a screen is completely arbitrary and has no basis behind it whatsoever.

To turn every comment, no matter how on topic, into obnoxious spam.

I really want absolutely no part of people who don’t understand code using LLMs to submit things they don’t understand. That’s a disaster waiting to happen at best.

If you don’t understand every line you’re submitting completely, you should not be submitting code. It absolutely does need to be restricted to people who know what they’re doing.

What are you talking about?

Despite the fact that GPS trackers without restrictions literally already existed, are unconditionally legal and legitimate to have, and were readily available to bad actors, they heavily limited the functionality out of the gate to limit the benefit to malicious use cases.

That’s insane.

We have identified several clusters where users have granted Kubernetes privileges to the system:authenticated group

lol if that’s the whole thing, blaming Google is laughable, unless they default to that somewhere or have faulty documentation. That’s not a security flaw with their tools.

How do they expect developers to make apps for it without actually having it available? This is the dev-kit. Yes, they fake it in software so you can do the basics on a MacBook. But that’s not really testing. The device in your hands is testing.

I recognize that it’s expensive. Being an early adopter isn’t cheap. But it’s sincerely priced insanely aggressively. The resolution is a huge difference from everything else available. It’s the difference between 10 seconds of text making your eyes bleed and actually being able to work on a screen with text. You can’t get just that for meaningfully less than the Vision Pro.

The passthrough, same deal. Your alternatives are higher latency while also massively compromising the image quality just to get something passed through at all. And that’s before the fact that it has a genuinely powerful SoC in the mix, and high enough quality cameras and processing to be controlled fully with gestures.

There’s a reason all the tech enthusiast “media”, who have their hands on a lot of these devices regularly, talk about the rest like they’re not anything special, but had their minds blown by the Vision Pro. It’s a huge step. And, because of their great development tools and relationships with big players, there will be a richer ecosystem than any of the others. Solo developers already could, and have, made real apps with ARKit for phones. They’ll make real apps for Vision Pro, too.

Other platforms are “more open”, but nobody democratizes app development like Apple. I understand the complaints about the arbitrary limitations they place, and don’t like all of them, either, but the bottom line is that they really do make it perfectly reasonable for a single dev or small team to get something high quality published and support themselves on, and all of that vibrant ecosystem is going to add a lot of value to Apple headsets.

Just not day one. Because people need hardware to develop for.

I promise none of these people are using a VPN. IP is plenty.

Chrome never claimed it was spoofing any of those details, and spoofing those details without clearly telling the users what they’re doing and why would murder the user experience. Their position as a browser had literally no impact on that tracking.

Of course they did. It doesn’t take any kind of abuse of the browser to do that. It’s all on the website side and everyone does that.

Ban most data gathering websites do. But this has literally zero to do with the browser.

lol how much ram does that need when they’re shipping every bit of data on your computer to their servers to do processing on there?

No shit.

It’s never been a secret what incognito mode does. Websites have always still been able to do whatever they want with your traffic, because the browser doesn’t control that in any way.

• Playing and controlling audiobooks on Google Play Books with your voice. You can still cast audiobooks from your mobile device.

Downgrade.

• Setting or using media alarms, music alarms, or radio alarms on Google Assistant enabled devices. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior or use a standard alarm.

Downgrade

• Accessing or managing your cookbook, transfering recipes from device to device, playing an instructional recipe video, or showing step-by-step recipes. - You can use Google Assistant to search for recipes across the web and YouTube.

Absolute dogshit that doesn’t vaguely resemble a substitute in any way.

• Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms.

Whatever

• Using your voice to call a device or broadcast a message to your Google Family Group. You can still broadcast to devices in your home.

Downgrade

• Using your voice to send an email, video or audio message. You can still make calls and send text messages.

Downgrade

• Rescheduling an event in Google Calendar with your voice. You can still schedule a new event.

Downgrade

• Using App Launcher in Google Assistant driving mode on Google Maps to read and send messages, make calls, and control media. You can still use voice control on Google Maps the same way.

No clue what the difference is.

• Asking to schedule or hear previously scheduled Family Bell announcements. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior.

No clue what Family Bell is

• Asking to meditate with Calm. You can still ask for meditation options with media providers such as YouTube.

YouTube sucks

• Voice control for activities will no longer be available on Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 devices. You’ll need to use the buttons on your device to start, stop, pause, and resume activities. You can still voice control activities on Pixel Watches.

Downgrade

• Viewing your sleep summaries will only be available on Google Smart Displays. You can still ask for sleep details by voice on third-party smart clocks.

Punishing third parties for no reason by taking away features they had

• Calls made from speakers and Smart Displays will not show up with a caller ID unless you’re using Duo.

• Viewing the ambient “Commute to Work” time estimates on Smart Displays. You can still ask for commute times and get directions by voice.

Laughable “replacement”. Having it visible is the whole point.

-Checking personal travel itineraries by voice. You can still ask for flight status. - Asking for information about your contacts. You can still make calls to your contacts. - Asking to take certain actions by voice, such as send a payment, make a reservation, or post to social media. You can still ask Assistant to open your installed apps.

Eh I don’t care about these.

I don’t use Google smart shit because I don’t trust them with a microphone. But several of those are features people very easily could have purchased a device for. The cookbook one, as an example, is almost the entire reason you’d buy a device for your kitchen, and the suggested alternative is fucking offensive in how much of a pile of shit it is.

A bunch of stuff that’s both convenient and mostly not a huge amount of complexity on the development side. Nice.

You’d think if it was they’d be pointing to that.

As far as I’m concerned “you must have parental consent until 18” is perfectly legitimate, because you can’t really sign contracts or fully legally consent until then.

I absolutely agree, but “you need parental consent to have an account” doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.