Why wouldn’t makers of light saber toys just add a buzzer? That would be far better than a game controller, and super cheap to add.

It’s hard to accept that you can only see this as a toy or trinket. No serious observer is characterizing it that way even if they are uncertain about its future.

I’m not saying apple is infallible. I’m saying it’s silly for people who have so little experience by comparison to be confidently dismissive. It’s obvious that Apple is less fallible than random commentators. I’m not saying they can’t fail, only that if you don’t don’t see the value, that should make you curious about why you don’t see it and why Apple does.

There is no reason this is how it would play out.

But again - there is no reason gamers can’t have a control, but it’s silly to use a game controller to interact with a computing environment when you can use your hands.

Remember it has full hand tracking. If you want to hold something e.g. a lightsaber or whatever, there is no reason not to. An inert plastic prop should work just fine.

This sounds like a plot point from a 1970s detective movie. People use their phones to take photos these days, but before that they used digital cameras.

Later in the article they say:

  Some kinds of data are always end-to-end encrypted, even with the default standard data protection:

  Passwords and Keychain
  Health data
  Home data
  Messages in iCloud (only when iCloud backup is disabled)
  Payment information
  Apple Card transactions
  Maps
  QuickType Keyboard learned vocabulary
  Safari
  Screen Time
  Siri information (excluding Siri Shortcuts)
  WiFi passwords
  W1 and H1 Bluetooth keys
  Memoji

I wonder if they came to him or if someone else facilitated it as opposed to it being his initiative.

Of course it does.

But that has nothing to do with the cynical conspiratorial manipulation you then go on to describe.

You are missing the point. The point is that to think that Apple of all companies doesn’t know this is absurd.

I think the value proposition is blindingly obvious. The big question for me is whether the device is comfortable to wear for long periods.

Perhaps if the open source community had provided a solution that actually served the needs of end users in this regard, Apple could have adopted it.

> Then, Apple decided to not directly tell Apple users that the thing standing between them and the software they downloaded is that Apple believes the developer needs to give Apple money.

You’ve admitted that they are solving a real problem, therefore this is not an honest representation of what is going on.

If the user has permission to disable the warning, they can, otherwise the app needs to be updated.

It’s easy to just claim it’s worthless without firsthand experience. It’s not so easy to discount the giant investment and expertise that have been brought to bear on developing it.