• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    Lol I’m a former diehard Apple hater that’s been using an iPhone for 4 years and loves Apple Silicon Macs.

    But I still do think they’ve done a lot of idiotic things lately. iOS 26 works fine on my phone (some people are reporting performance issues), but the UI is hit and miss.

    Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could’ve given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they’re calling this.

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      3 hours ago

      UI is hit and miss

      Does anyone even like it? I haven’t seen anyone online or offline that actually even remotely likes it.

      Edit: Nevermind, found the first guy further down the thread

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        It’s…fine. I miss the direct skeuomorphic design language of the older iOS.

        Ever since about the time of Windows 8 I felt like all computers were just designed for other computers.

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      Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could’ve given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they’re calling this.

      I think Vision Pro was doomed regardless. Go back and watch the iPhone announcement, then the Vision Pro announcement. Every single person in the auditorium when Jobs is presenting the iPhone is thinking of the thousand things they can do with that device. In the Vision Pro announcement, there’s none of that energy. If they released something that left zero question as to its purpose, the price could sit at $3K and they wouldn’t be able to make them fast enough. Instead we got an Oculus that won’t support most games and costs 6 times as much.

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      Don’t get me wrong, they have some great things about it. Garage Band, for instance. It’s just not forward thinking, not quality or design oriented anymore, and tries to keep you on their cloud pretty strongly. At least that’s how it was around 2017.