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[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but anyone feel like Apple is slowly having an...over-engineering problem?

The Apple Vision Pro, this... the new iPad Pros with FUCKING M4 CHIPS THAT ARE RUNNING IPADOS (??????)

Like what is happening in their product development department lately?

[–] [email protected] 127 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

"If you can't reinvent the wheel, then just make the wheel more expensive." -Tim Apple, probably

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate his proper name being used 🤗

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Listen, I can't lie...my iPhone X is the best phone I've owned. Bought in 2017 and still going strong with promised support until 2026/27. I still have fond memories of "paying" my parents back for it (I was child labour 😀)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I bought a 14 pro and gave my nephew my X. Besides the island and the camera quality they are largely indistinguishable for almost all of my use-cases. And they are almost 5 years apart.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (8 children)

They need to take their talent and apply it to stuff that could actually use it, rather than rehashing stuff that is already good. An Apple clothes dryer that actually can sense dry clothes and doesn't break easily. An apple garage door that doesn't suck. An Apple Ebike that lasts ages and is repairable (and gets people out of their cars).

I think an Apple bidet could be neat. A toaster, too.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Did you just put "repairable" and "Apple" in the same sentence?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... I don't know if I trust Siri to wash my asshole tbh

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Something tells me you wouldn't like the coming AssID feature either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

The bidet is under development. It is going to have cameras to confirm cleanliness using ai.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That would probably disrupt the brand too much.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Will the camera look inside of your ear?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

iWax on … iWax off

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Yes and tell you your IQ, and notify your doctor that you don't wash in there.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

First there were glassholes. Now we'll have earworms?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean butt plugs with cameras pointing onwards into it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I would buy that

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Let me guess. Add infrared cameras onto the Airpods, costing them very little extra, and using it as justification for an £80 price rise.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

bringing "in-air" gestures to airpods

I can't wait for stories of people brushing their hair away and the earbuds take that as a sign to raise the volume too high or something equally dumb to happen because they won't be able to differentiate between a normal gesture meant for it and something not meant for it.

Gesture controls are cool, but what happens if they are too sensitive to movement or think gesture xyz is the same as gesture zyx?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Exactly... I have regular buds for running and I hate them because they inevitably shift around a bit and , when I try to get them back in place, they start misinterpreting my touch with whatever touch command they were preprogrammed

These ideas sound nice in the brainstorming room but, in my experience, have rarely panned out in practice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

These already have IR sensors for gesture detection

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hy-concealed-smart-earbuds#/

Using cameras instead of simpler IR sensors are going to hurt battery life

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Cost as much as an iPhone

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

They haven't even thought of adding fans for the hot days. Is anyone even thinking of users at Apple?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

And this is why the Humane Pin was always a dumb idea. Apple, Google, Samsung, etc just needed to license some LL and diffusion models, then slap camera on all the headphones they make. Boom - instant humane like experience that’s faster, lighter, better looking, has better battery, etc etc.

No futuristic projector UI, but that thing was pretty busted anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Let's take low power a tech gadget that gets good battery life and make it no longer have good battery life. What a great idea.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Just to improve the spy ecosystem. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The $3 trillion company intends to mass-produce revamped earbuds with built-in infrared cameras by 2026, according to a new report from analyst and longtime Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo.

The cameras could help Apple shore up its current and future augmented-reality headsets with enhanced spatial audio features, the analyst wrote.

Citing a supply-chain survey, Kuo indicated that pairing these enhanced buds with Vision Pro goggles could make Apple’s spatial-computing experience more lifelike.

For folks not interested in dropping thousands on an Apple headset, the IR cameras could offer other perks, including bringing “in-air” gestures to AirPods, per Kuo.

The analyst’s report follows an earlier story from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which noted that Apple was looking into the idea of camera-powered AirPods.

After turning its minimalistic white buds into status symbol in the iPod era, Apple has gradually made them smarter over the years, adding features such as wireless connectivity, noise cancellation, head tracking, touch controls and voice commands.


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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Ear pics now easier than ever

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How about just better sound instead? You know, what headphones are actually for.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The worst part is that these could be the only option. Since airpods are designed to go bad after a few years Apple will interpret all of the replacements as "very successful sales"

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