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I think thats a pretty typical apple fanboyism response you are going to get from anything they release. Basically all of their products are iterations of some

by asdff 3y ago

I think thats a pretty typical apple fanboyism response you are going to get from anything they release. Basically all of their products are iterations of some other existing product on the market. All the new things coming to iphone or mac. Its all been done because it has to have been done before, since unlike how they pitch them, computer companies don't make new things, they assemble existing things in potentially new ways perhaps, but nothing is novel; "apple silicon" is just another TSMC product running ARM architecture, not hand crafted in cupertino by free range artisans or anything. Boring hardware vendors are the ones who make things, who then sell these components on the market, and then Apple cobbles together a computer from what is available among the hardware vendor's inventory same as any other computer on the market. The layers get deeper still, when you consider what the hardware vendors produce is just what is able to be produced on the tooling the toolmakers are currently selling to them. Really its the toolmaker's toolmaker's toolmaker who brought you that iPhone, but Tim Apple walks up on that stage and gets the applause.

ProfessorLayton 3y ago
This misrepresents and belittles the amount of effort required to create something. Generally speaking, people don't buy tech, they buy products — Ideally great products. While the iPhone 1.0 was incredibly primitive by today's standards, and wasn't the absolute cutting edge tech/compute-wise, it was indeed very polished and fantastic at what it set out to do: Combine an iPod + Internet Communicator + Phone. It had real mass-market use cases it set to solve during development, and solved those right out the gate, despite the many improvements that would follow. Vision 1.0 doesn't seem to have many particular use cases in mind, and the ones it has seem incredibly niche. There's a lot of really cool tech that's meandering for a reason to exist. This alone makes it unlike any Apple product they have released in recent memory.
- asdff 3y ago
  The iPhone 1.0 was a $499 product though and it was also a very useful smartphone when it launched, which was already basically an established market by Blackberry and others.

by asdff 3y ago

ProfessorLayton 3y ago

This misrepresents and belittles the amount of effort required to create something. Generally speaking, people don't buy tech, they buy products — Ideally great products. While the iPhone 1.0 was incredibly primitive by today's standards, and wasn't the absolute cutting edge tech/compute-wise, it was indeed very polished and fantastic at what it set out to do: Combine an iPod + Internet Communicator + Phone. It had real mass-market use cases it set to solve during development, and solved those right out the gate, despite the many improvements that would follow. Vision 1.0 doesn't seem to have many particular use cases in mind, and the ones it has seem incredibly niche. There's a lot of really cool tech that's meandering for a reason to exist. This alone makes it unlike any Apple product they have released in recent memory.

asdff 3y ago
The iPhone 1.0 was a $499 product though and it was also a very useful smartphone when it launched, which was already basically an established market by Blackberry and others.