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The TV business ain’t what it used to be
Sarah Nassauer for The Wall Street Journal: Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio
The retail giant is in
Matt Birchler
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The Vision Pro App Store is full of something rare: paid apps
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Over Half of Vision Pro-Only Apps Are Paid Downloads, Far More Than Wider iOS App Store
Apple
The good, the bad, and the pixelated parts of using a Mac in visionOS
We're very much in the early days of visionOS. As I told Chris Lawley on Mastodon, "this
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Gemini? Gemini. Gemini!
2 short months ago Google announced Gemini (apparently Gemini 1.0). It came in 3 variants:
1. Gemini Nano, which
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I sold my iPad (members post)
How does one afford a Vision Pro? Sacrifices had to be made.
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The most anonymous gaming generation
Jen Glennon for Kotaku: Bummer: PS5 Entering 'The Latter Stage of Its Life Cycle,' Sony Says
Sony execs
My co-worker's first impressions of the Vision Pro
I brought the Vision Pro to the office today to show a work friend since he's into tech,
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The Quest 3 is better than you might expect
Alex Heath for The Verge: Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is “the better product” vs. Apple’s Vision Pro
He says
Why reviewing the Vision Pro is so hard
If you handed me the iPhone 16 Pro today and told me that I needed to have a written review
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For the life of me I can’t find a GPT I find useful (besides my own)
Emilia David for The Verge: I Love My GPT, but I Can’t Find a Use for Anybody Else’s
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Judging my Vision Pro reactions from WWDC
Once a year or so I seem to write something that gets a good chunk of pushback. In 2023 that
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I have no cursor and I must click (members post)
The Vision Pro isn't a developer kit, but it's definitely got some UI oddities that will get sorted out before it's really ready for the mainstream.
Apple
My wife’s first reaction to using the Vision Pro (and Meta Quest 3)
My wife wasn’t super interested in the Vision Pro, but after having it in the house for a few
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We’re all jazzed at first, the long game is still to be determined
Tim Urban: All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro
It’s not just me. VR blows everyone
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Movies on the Vision Pro are a stunning, but imperfect experience
Back when I was a kid, there was a “computer room” in our house. There was one PC and we
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So on brand
Jordan Pearson: How Tech Firms Made a Crypto-Boosting Book an NYT Best Seller by Gaming the System
Cafiero linked two
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Another Napster moment for the web? (members post)
I have real concerns about features like Arc Search blowing up the revenue model that has powered the open web for decades. Maybe there's hope in looking back 25 years at another software innovation that blew everything up, but spurred more new revenue models.
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Like buying an iPhone in 2007
What a difference a week makes, huh? Last week I was feeling FOMO, but had come to terms with not