Vision Pro Reviews: The good, the bad and the UGLY… (CultCast #632)

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re talking Vision Pro reviews, the good, the bad and the ugly! Also, we have some details on iOS 17.4 — and did Vanity Fair leak an image of the new iPad?

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This week’s stories:

Vision Pro review roundup: ‘Magic’ and ‘a revolution,’ but definitely unfinished

The first reviews of Apple’s Vision Pro gush compliments on the augmented-reality headset, with one reviewer calling it “mind-blowing” and another “stunning.”
However, there’s also plenty of criticism for the high price, weight and slim collection of software available when the product launches later this week.
Vanity Fair: Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro
Apple Vision Pro’s biggest problem: It’s highly addictive!

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iOS 17.4 beta 1: All the new features and changes

The first beta of iOS 17.4 is here, and it packs several big changes. The beta build arrived just days after Apple released iOS 17.3 to the public.
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Is this an unannounced iPad in a press photo?

Some people think the first picture of Tim Cook wearing a Vision Pro also has a surprise: an iPad that Apple hasn’t released yet. But no. The tablet looks a bit odd, but that’s not because it’s a future one with a new design.
Post by John Siracusa
Edited image by David Schaub

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you're printing to the LPT1, try printing to the LPT1 C colon
0:06.8	backslash Windows.
0:08.8	The device command in this example sets up the H-I-M- Whoops?
0:14.0	What did I do?
0:15.0	What did I do?
0:16.0	What do you have to do it?
0:17.0	You've been fool with that thing for three days now.
0:19.0	Making it easy to use.
0:21.0	So we'll be more productive. It is productive much longer will go out of business. it is
0:23.0	productive much longer we go out of business.
0:25.1	If you want a computer that's easy to use there's still only one way to go.
0:32.2	Hello and welcome to the Kolkasi Best 30 Plus minute Apple conversation
0:37.2	you can hear all week long I'm your host Airf trying Lage to join me today
0:40.4	he's hired a team of developers to wire his Vision Pro headset into a mechanical
0:45.2	robot suit that he'll be able to control with just his eyes. The prototype has already cut
0:50.1	down on Kultimac writers escaping by 38% and the turrets haven't even been
0:56.0	installed yet. He's the man who got ever cultimac. Lewis Wells is here.
1:01.9	Technology. Let's get those turrets installed. Oh boy. Well, this is here. Yeah, technology.
1:03.0	Let's get those turns installed.
1:04.6	Oh boy.
1:05.6	Also with this, his primary computer is an Apple 2GS, complete with 20 megabytes of hard disk
1:12.3	space.
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