It's time for episode 559 of the clockwise podcast from Relay FM.

Recorded Wednesday, June 19th, 2024.

Clockwise, four people, that is counting the hours by half.

My name is Dan Morn, and I'm joined across the internet by my good friend, my pal, my buddy.

It's the one and only Micah Sargent. How are you doing today, Micah?

I am doing peachy-keen, Dan. Thank you for asking. I don't like to work in halves because of that whole

sort of conundrum where if you move toward something by halves, you'll never actually get there.

But then I realized that that's basically a way

to stay alive forever. If you only age by half, then... Yeah, it works great for Zeno. That guy's still

kicking. This is, of course, the show where we talk about Foretech topics with two fantastic

guests to my left this week as a journalist formerly of Wired,

ProPublica, and the Wall Street Journal. It's Meg Marco. Welcome back, Meg. Hi. Thanks for having me.

And to my left, it is the founder of Lex Friedman Consulting. You'll never guess.

Oh, yes, you will. It's Lex. Hello, Lex. I was so glad that name wasn't taken. Hi. You know what? You joke, but it should have been. All right, let me kick things off today. There was a report earlier this week that Apple is delaying work on its next version of the Apple Vision Pro in favor of prioritizing a cheaper model. My sort of question for you is,

I mean, looking at this sort of from a strategic point of view, do you think a cheaper model is

actually something that will bring some success to this device category? Or is there just

inherent limits to how excited people get about sticking giant goggles on their face. Meg,

what do you think? I think there are a lot of applications here that are great for accessibility.

There's opportunity here if you can do things like, I don't know, read a book in bed or you can

watch a movie on a plane. Like there are things that people want to do for this use case.

The question is, how cheap is it? Because when I was looking at some of the coverage of this,

this suggested cheapness was around the same as the highest level iPhone as the lowest it would go.

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