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As usual, people will try to use workarounds. For missing ports on my Mac Book Pro, I use a hub. For connecting my AKG headset to my iPhone, I use a dongle. I g

As usual, people will try to use workarounds. For missing ports on my Mac Book Pro, I use a hub. For connecting my AKG headset to my iPhone, I use a dongle. I guess sooner or later Apple will make available a kind of API for device makers to make it possible to interact with the content in ways different that eyeballs tracking.

makeitdouble 3y ago
You're right. The same way face unlock doesn't work for some people and they inout a password every time, so it's not intractable. I expect people for who eye tracking fails to be stuck on third party controllers for the default interface (hopefully they're supported outside of games ?). The bummer though will be that this device is US only for its launch, so the first round of application might also not care at all about these kind of issues. Accessibility is something Apple usually cares about, but third party devs can be more casual about it.
- matt-attack 3y ago
  Well Apple is only expecting less than 1M units to be sold. Must such a niche product be designed for every variation of human? Seems reasonable that if you fall outside of the most common human forms by enough standard deviations then you're just out of luck.
  - makeitdouble 3y ago
    I think people can understand if you tell them their ear is a bit odd shaped, or their makeup throws the dectection off. But it will be weird to explain them their eye movement is really out of norm, especially after they paid 3500.
KennyBlanken 3y ago
Those aren't workarounds. The whole point of 3-4 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports is that you can do anything you can do things like plug a docking station into it via one port and do power, display, USB ports, etc off that one cable. But instead every screams about dongles.
- hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
  I'm not sure what you mean. I used to have all the ports I needed without a docking station.
- alpaca128 3y ago
  The whole point is having the option, yes. But it makes no sense in having only USB-C ports and nothing else. Apple seems to agree, they added a couple ports back in the M2 Macbooks. Quality Thunderbolt 4 hubs cost about $150-500, which is fine if I need to extend the selection of ports at my desk, but there's no point in having everything on one USB-C port just because it's technically possible.

makeitdouble 3y ago

You're right. The same way face unlock doesn't work for some people and they inout a password every time, so it's not intractable. I expect people for who eye tracking fails to be stuck on third party controllers for the default interface (hopefully they're supported outside of games ?). The bummer though will be that this device is US only for its launch, so the first round of application might also not care at all about these kind of issues. Accessibility is something Apple usually cares about, but third party devs can be more casual about it.

matt-attack 3y ago
Well Apple is only expecting less than 1M units to be sold. Must such a niche product be designed for every variation of human? Seems reasonable that if you fall outside of the most common human forms by enough standard deviations then you're just out of luck.
- makeitdouble 3y ago
  I think people can understand if you tell them their ear is a bit odd shaped, or their makeup throws the dectection off. But it will be weird to explain them their eye movement is really out of norm, especially after they paid 3500.

KennyBlanken 3y ago

Those aren't workarounds. The whole point of 3-4 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports is that you can do anything you can do things like plug a docking station into it via one port and do power, display, USB ports, etc off that one cable. But instead every screams about dongles.

hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I used to have all the ports I needed without a docking station.
alpaca128 3y ago
The whole point is having the option, yes. But it makes no sense in having only USB-C ports and nothing else. Apple seems to agree, they added a couple ports back in the M2 Macbooks. Quality Thunderbolt 4 hubs cost about $150-500, which is fine if I need to extend the selection of ports at my desk, but there's no point in having everything on one USB-C port just because it's technically possible.