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
Though I’ve come to depend on my GPT, it’s the only one I use.
I’ve had the exact same experience. I fully expected that the GPT store would be full of cool
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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 article was my immediate reaction to the Vision Pro’s announcement at WWDC, which wasn’t as over-the-moon excited as many other people were. My favorite reaction was from Horace Dediu of Asymco
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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.
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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 days, she finally said, “fine, let’s see what this is all about.”
So I get her into the headset and she had tow immediate things that stuck out to her:
1. The headset is
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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 away when they try it, but it seems to have a hard time hooking people for the long run. After a major wave of hype in the mid-2010s, VR receded into the land of
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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 examples of firms that publicly said they placed orders for Dixon’s book to give to employees. One was Syndicate, a company in the crypto industry that a16z has invested in. “We bought copies
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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
Browse for me gets a big 🤨 from me
Casey Newton: Scenes From a Dying Web
Opening the Arc Search app for the first time last week, though, I experienced a rare emotion: a kind of revulsion at the app’s mere existence, and at what it portends.
If I’m known for loving and advocating for one app, it has to be the
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Podcasts are surprisingly tough
Anil Dash: “Wherever You Get Your Podcasts” Is a Radical Statement
But here's the thing: being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech
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RSS and acid, name a more iconic duo
Keenan: RSS Readers Make Me Want to Jump Into a Vat of Acid!
Opening an RSS reader is about the quickest way I know how to trigger a panic attack in myself next to Googling "colon cancer symptoms reddit." Even when I do my best to only subscribe to sources I truly care
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We turned dunking into a sport
George RR Martin on his blog: Dark Days
It used to be fun talking about our favorite books and films, and having spirited debates with fans who saw things different… but somehow in this age of social media, it is no longer enough to say “I did not like book X or film Y, and
The Meta Quest 3 made me even more annoyed by the PlayStation Portal
I reviewed the PlayStation Portal late last year and my main criticism of it was that it had more input lag and general wireless reliability issues than I would have liked to see in a streaming-only device.
I’ve used it a bit since that review, but it’s fair to say that was
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Like buying a BlackBerry in 2007 (members post)
I got a new headset, but it's not the one everyone is talking about.
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Seeing what you want to see in the stock price
This article is making the rounds on Mastodon, where generative AI hate runs strong, and I get it, it’s everything you want to hear in a headline if you think ChatGPT is the most evil thing ever created on computers. It kicks off with the headline, “AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap
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Castro isn’t dead, apparently
Bluck Apps writing on the Castro blog, which went over 3 years without a new post, if you wanted an idea for how much communication from the company has broken down: A Fresh Start for Castro
We are excited to announce Castro has been purchased by Bluck Apps. Castro is a great app with a