this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
126 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
38663 readers
555 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's the same story for every VR headset. Buy it, be blown away for a few hours/days, then never touch it again. I did it too, with Oculus Go. The only exception is for gaming, but Apple just doesn't know anything about that. Honestly I'm blown away that they sold as many as they did, but that's Apple marketing for ya, I guess.
It was insanely overpriced, and so obviously intentionally so. Sell a headset that gets plugged into a Macbook for computation and you'll sell quite a few more. It'll be lighter, cheaper, smaller, more comfortable, and easier to integrate into your workflow. But of course that would break Apple's cardinal rule of making 2 products capable of the same tasks. Same reason why your MacBook will never have a touchscreen and your iPad will never drive 2 displays or run MacOS apps or why they stopped making the 12" Macbook.
So crazy that you can't have as many general computing virtual display as you want in an apple vision.
Apple users don't understand computerd beyond "the tool to do a task they need done." So they don't realise how roped in this they are in this system that constantly wants to curtail them.
Everything is fine in the Apple ecosystem as long as you want to do something The Apple Way™.
As soon as you want to do something differently to how Apple decrees it should be done, then you're screwed.
I didn't realize that was a thing