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Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser


Tools programmer
Writer-wannabe
Did translations once upon a time
I contain multitudes


(TurfsterNTE off Twitter)


Trans rights
Black lives matter


Be excellent to each other


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joewintergreen
@joewintergreen

I think everyone unimpressed with the Apple Vision Pro but talking about it like "if this catches on", like there's any ambiguity, needs to have a bit more faith in themselves. Nobody wants to look the fool when in a year everyone's wearing these things all the time, sure. But come on. It's not going to happen. The thing is useless, you look like a twat in it, it costs Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, Apple owns it, it's fucking doomed. 3D TV never stood a chance and that was a more meaningful experience. VR's basically dead, AR's of fundamentally less value than that. Must we pretend this is even gonna flail around for another two years before getting canned? C'mon now


Turfster
@Turfster

that the internet is suddenly being flooded with videos of influencers and people using it in their cybertruck1 or on the subway2 is a big warning sign that this was always going to be DOA3


1: because that's the actual target audience: assholes with 0 sense and too much money
2: that guy would have been so fucking mugged and beaten within an inch of his life if it was real, just like the skater fuckhead
3: apart from for the 5 C-suite wankers that had wet dreams about this


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in reply to @joewintergreen's post:

lots of peoples' brains have been irrevocably damaged by Moore's Law and they think that V2 of the thing will have double the battery life and double the power, and because their brains have also been irrevocably damaged by techie herd mentality they believe that those things are all that's keeping it from being something every human on the planet wants.

i just hope the honeymoon lasts as little time as possible and we can put the last few nails in this broader narrative's coffin. but it's apple so who knows, maybe there'll still be people hanging on a decade from now insisting that the baggie of dogshit is gold coins.