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This is going to sound crazy, but I've been thinking about it for the past few months. A fully digital city: * Imagine a full digital office: all of your file

This is going to sound crazy, but I've been thinking about it for the past few months. A fully digital city: * Imagine a full digital office: all of your files at easy access all around you * Imagine reading Apple News on a balcony looking out at the city * Imagine FaceTime, but being able to walk around a room with your friends * Imagine digital storefronts where you can look at 3D models, then conveniently buy with Apple Pay. * Imagine what 3rd party developers could do... Yes, it's a moonshot, mostly science fiction. But the tech is almost there. The real trick, of course, is giving it mass appeal - making it widely accessible. But if there's any company that's built on making things accessible, it's got to be Apple.

eterm 9y ago
Most of those already exist, they just have poor UX. My files are all around me, conveniently stored on the //storageserver/share/ drive. File storage UI/UX hasn't changed for 20 years though. I can stand on my balcony reading news from my phone, looking out at the town isn't so pretty all the time though, and I'm imagine it would be even less pretty if a "digital city" where the residents are present online more than off. You can walk around on a webcam, it's just not sociable. Do you mean you'd like a drone following you? That would just be distracting for the person you're communicating with.