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by turnsout 3y ago
First of all, I disagree with the premise—plenty of Android users buy AirPods. But putting that aside, why does the success of AirPods invalidate the point that Vision Pro could be successful without being as big as the iPhone?
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by turnsout 3y ago
It doesn't need to be the next iPhone to be a great business. Famously, AirPods alone would be a Fortune 200 company (probably higher now).
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by turnsout 3y ago
Because no one told them they could add a zero to the price of the headset. haha
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by turnsout 3y ago
I have a lot of the same skepticism, but then I was also skeptical about the Apple Watch, and I'm wearing one now! That original Apple Watch was RIGHT at the edge of being a usable product. It was so slow and had so many connection iss
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by turnsout 3y ago
Yes, they only beat people to market in the sense that once they release a product, everyone else realizes that's what the product should be and creates variations on it—so in hindsight it looks like Apple's take is the "firs
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by turnsout 3y ago
Meta is kind of the Xerox PARC of VR, in that they're doing a lot of great research but utterly failing to productize it. Think for example of their work on virtual avatars [0]. That research is FOUR years old but looks about 1000 time
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by turnsout 3y ago
It's true, Xerox could have retired by now!
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by turnsout 3y ago
Because it absolutely IS legitimate development. Apple had the insight to take the printer engine, combine it with a networking interface, and bake in PostScript. If you have 1/3 or even 2/3 of those, you don't get the deskto
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by turnsout 3y ago
This is fantastic—thanks for the link. I always defend Apple when people say they "stole" their GUI from Xerox, but this post has a lot of great details, including what Xerox's VC arm did with their $1M of pre-IPO Apple stock
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by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah, seems like something a professor said one day in class but never published.
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by turnsout 3y ago
Also keep in mind that Cycles and most renderers use a simplified version of physics—rather than pathtrace all wavelengths, they use a simplified RGB model, which means certain optical properties behave differently. For instance, you don’
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by turnsout 3y ago
[citation needed]
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by turnsout 3y ago
Sadly people with those skills will make iOS apps or plugins, because it’s so much more work to monetize a web app.
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by turnsout 3y ago
Taking a US-centric look: in 2021 there were 42,915 automotive fatalities in the US [0], and the average number of vehicle trips per household is around 1900 [1], and about 124M households in the US. [2] That works out to ~235B trips, putti
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by turnsout 3y ago
They’re all dramatically safer than driving to the grocery store, fwiw
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by turnsout 3y ago
Wikipedia: Of the 57 MA60s exported by January 2016, at least 26 were in storage after safety concerns, maintenance problems or performance issues; six others were damaged beyond repair. Not quite a glowing track record…
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by turnsout 3y ago
It's more that ARKit is a shared component used by iOS and visionOS. When you develop a fully immersive scene, you have easy access to the necessary ARKit APIs to do things like attach objects to walls, etc. See the block diagram from
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by turnsout 3y ago
I don't think we've progressed that much. If you dig into what "masculinity" means today, it's still an extremely narrow lane. We accept a much wider range if you identify as queer, but if you identify as straight,
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by turnsout 3y ago
Counterpoint: do what actually matters to you. You may constantly start projects and never finish them, but that may actually be serving your need for experimentation and learning. For someone else, that same behavior might be unhealthy avo
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by turnsout 3y ago
> Humans learn from the structure of the world -- not the structure of language. You'd be surprised. Many researchers believe that "knowledge" is inseparable from language, and that language is not associative (lab
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by turnsout 3y ago
> turbocharging securitization by skipping the step of finding something worth securitizing Best description of web3 I’ve ever read
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by turnsout 3y ago
Mental Liquidity is another way of thinking about "Psychological Flexibility," which is the subject of a huge amount of clinical research. There's an entire therapeutic framework called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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by turnsout 3y ago
This is a whole genre now… “I tried to do a nearly impossible thing—but in a stunning twist, I was not able to do it, because it’s nearly impossible.”
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by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah… It's like sure, this replaces a TV for ONE person. If I want to watch a movie with my wife and daughter, I'm out $10,500
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by turnsout 3y ago
Pretty good list! Sadly, knowing what to do and doing it are two different things, which is why there’s a market for self help books.
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by turnsout 3y ago
With unemployment this low, I just can NOT believe how many companies are doubling down on RTO. Companies hold almost zero leverage at this point. Even the “quiet layoff” theory makes no sense, because they’re still on the hook for severanc
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by turnsout 3y ago
meta!
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by turnsout 3y ago
This was (wait for it) interesting, but every item in "The Index of the Interesting" could be generalized as "Counterintuitive" or "Surprising." Regardless of the details, they all involve subverting expectatio
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by turnsout 3y ago
Well, Tapbots launched Ivory, a totally different app based loosely on Tweetbot, but it required a substantial investment to design and engineer. It's not like Tweetbot just started loading Mastodon one day. In fact, paying Tweetbot cu
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by turnsout 3y ago
This is the nature/danger of being 100% dependent on a free API. You're at the mercy of the API vendor, and there may be no alternative. In Christian's case, if Reddit doesn't change their mind, his best bet is probably

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