Fri. 01/19 – Vision Pro Pre-Order Begin With New Questions

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Preorders for the Vision Pro begin, but huge new questions about partner support have arisen. Zuckerberg says he wants to open source AGI. You’re going to have to pay for those Galaxy AI features. Perplexity will power the rabbit r1. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Nutrafol.com/men and promocode Ridehome Links: YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (Bloomberg) A Survey of Popular Apps Currently Compatible With Apple Vision Pro (MacStories) Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence (The Verge) EU Commission Intends to Block Amazon’s iRobot Acquisition (WSJ) Samsung says Galaxy AI features will only be free ‘until the end of 2025’ (9to5Google) The rabbit r1 will use Perplexity AI’s tech to answer your queries (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Twitch lost its way (Fast Company) Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time (Vox) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Friday, January 19th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.1	Pre-orders for the Vision Pro begin, but huge new questions about partner support have arisen.
0:14.0	Zuckerberg says he wants to open source AGI.
0:17.3	You're going to have to pay for those Galaxy AI features.
0:20.6	Proplexity will power the Rabbit R1 and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:25.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.
0:27.0	The Vision Pro went on sale for pre-order today. We learned now that there are
0:37.6	256 gigabyte, 512 gigabyte and 1 terabyte options and 16 gigabytes of unified memory.
0:44.0	But I have to say the hmms keep on coming for this Vision Pro launch.
0:50.0	Remember I was asking how come Apple couldn't get some developer to gin up something new
0:54.9	some new whiz-bang app that wasn't possible before to give you a sort of this is what you can
0:59.8	do that you couldn't do before to launch with.
1:02.8	Fine, that didn't happen.
1:04.1	Why didn't they get one of their partners like Disney
1:06.3	to do something special, some new show or movie?
1:09.8	Fine, that didn't happen.
1:11.2	And now it's turning out that they couldn't even
1:13.1	cajole any of the usual suspects into creating native apps for this thing.
1:17.4	Mark Grumman and Ashley Carmen are reporting that YouTube and Spotify are not
1:21.5	planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or even allow their
1:25.6	iPad apps to run on the platform.
1:28.0	Remember, all you have to do is tweak your
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