They would be android devices, then.

So no. They wouldn’t be good.

Drats. I give it a go every handful of years because I want it to be great, but that’s my experience every time, too.

I still hold out hopes, since Blender used to be the same way. When I last tried Blender, their keyboard shortcuts and scene navigation were clearly developed by someone who thinks that using emacs is a good idea, and that vi never should have been improved.

But they’re a serious pro tool now that has a foothold in the 3D industry which I would not have predicted back then.

This is a fantastic list! Thank you for sending it my way. Saved for later exploration and I commented with my latest free (though only partially open source) app suggestion.

I’ll have to check it out. Thank you for the recommendation!

In many specific applications current AI algorithms already exceed human capabilities. That’s been the case for much longer than the LLM craze. And as new AI algorithms are developed it becomes more and more likely that even without Artificial General Intelligence, the category of computing known as AI could reach a point that it exceeds human capabilities in all possible applications.

But even with that fact it’s true that we shouldn’t treat the current implementations of AI as if it were human.

If we ever develop an actual AGI and it is ad capable as a human, then we should reconsider, but nothing we have now seems to imply we are close to that.

Has GIMP improved much in the last five years?

My partner uses Adobe products for one of his jobs, and he had installed their cloud software on one of my laptops on his user account. Which forced it on all other user accounts, too.

I found that it installed horribly challenging to kill or remove daemons that would relaunch and reinstall their spyware bullshit if you didn’t kill all of them in the right way, and it was spamming me a pop-up asking for my password to install other things, which I couldn’t prevent.

I was able to stop it after many attempts and then got my partner to uninstall that junk from my laptop.

That was all still more user-friendly than the last time I tried to use GIMP.

Are there viable alternatives for their products?

Why bother with that? If you need shoes to dissolve, regardless of the materials, just subject them to my foot sweat for a few months.

Except Apple did better than analysts forecasted, and announced a buyback, causing the stock price to go up.

He lost money compared to if he had waited until after.

The fediverse has a built-in search engine?

I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I’d say “works quite well” would describe my experience.

But also that’s not what I think OP was talking about.

They want a search engine for a random fact like google. It’s been long true that you need to add “reddit” to the end of any google search to find the info you needed.

It’d be nice to have a fediverse alternative.

The link seemed to work for me from lemmy. I see three posts there when I click it at least.

For the click-bait avoiders: the issue the article mentions is that some iPhones’ alarms aren’t going off.

This has been an issue in the past for me as well, so I hope they fix it fully.

I know that Lemmy generally agrees with this guy’s low effort, Apple Bad, opining…

But come on.

If you have strongly held opinions about a product you have never tried, maybe you can just not say them.

But I get it, you all want a space to jeer and throw tomatoes at Apple, and screw anyone who doesn’t.

Also, I sent at least one of the comments in this chain from my Vision Pro, using the Voyager app while downloading 4k stereo gay porn and a 16k stereo video of a stream.

Both were awesome!

How is it twisting your words? Your complaints do resemble the complaints seen during every other Apple product’s release I’ve experienced. I provided some references. They are almost verbatim.

And I literally had those opinions at the time.

And comparing it to the Apple Watch is pretty damned fair. The first year sales were way lower than expected for the watch:

https://www.cultofmac.com/635432/apple-watch-first-year-sales-projections-were-outlandishly-unrealistic/

But at the end of the day, have you even tried the thing? It’s an awesome fucking product, with tons of potential. Just like virtually every review has said.

I was late to buying an iPhone because it was a stupid, expensive, product that had no use in my life.

I was wrong.

And literally you are saying the same things that I quoted about the Apple Watch, and the same things were said about the iPad.

Not all three had the devices flying off the shelf in the first year.

But aside from that, I have a Vision Pro, and I love it.

It is better than all of the other VR headsets I have used, which is a relatively extensive list. I currently own the Index and PSVR2. And I would rather pay Apple $3000 dollars than buy a Meta product again if I can help it.

I suspect this will be more like the Apple Watch. A product people liked but didn’t get at first and then over time it became the de-facto choice of smart watch.

But time will tell. I’m rooting for both the Vision Pro and the VR industry, myself, and I hope you are just like everyone I quoted you on every Apple product ever, just being foolish.

The iPhone launched without an App store. It later went on to define the concept of having a “killer app.”

It is clear from the article I linked that there were tons of people who didn’t know how the iPhone fit into their lives. That’s hugely revisionist history. All of the complaints about the VisionPro were made about the original iPhone. For instance:

“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item,” said then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

People said it was too expensive! Here’s some more:

To summarize: the iPhone is expensive and fails miserably at its primary function of making telephone calls, but other than that it’s really great.

I still wouldn’t buy one for everyday use.

We like our strategy. We’re selling millions and million and millions of phones a year. Apple is selling zero phones. In six months they’ll have the most expensive phone by far ever in the marketplace

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65619/13-early-criticisms-doubts-and-disses-about-iphone

I, personally, was a very late adopter to smart phones, joining when my motorola flip phone was stolen out of my hand during the iPhone 3g era. I later jumped to Android for the One Plus One, and stuck with that until jumping back to Apple devices years later.

But you could point to the Apple Watch, or the iPod, or any number of successful products that Apple has brought out and find the exact same things being said.

For example, Apple Watch will fail because:

It doesn’t have a defining feature.

https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/10-reasons-the-apple-watch-will-fail-ecfe7fdffebd

As for the VisionPro, all of the reviews I’ve seen for the device have been universally mixed-to-positive. They generally share your sentiment that it isn’t clear yet where it fits in, but that it is an incredible, magical, device.

The most negative review I’ve seen has said that it’s great but not worth messing up your hair to use.

But to claim it’s universally panned is absolutely not true.

It’s a great device that lots of people who can’t afford one are complaining about. That’s it so far.

“These comments remind me of the folks who thought the original iPod didn’t stand a chance…”

Just going to leave this here:

https://bgr.com/general/original-iphone-reaction-comments/

Just FYI, there’s an app called Moon Player (and possibly others) which let you play stereo video.

It has Youtube integration in the app, but if you download any mp4 it can play them just fine (albeit in a clunky-UX which requires you to tell it what the video’s layout is).

So all those “it doesn’t support porn” people can now fall back to their other main complaint of “I can’t afford it.”

while its end user numbers were close to the threshold

Why have a threshold if you literally ignore it?

its importance for certain use cases, such as gaming apps.

Sure, Jan. The iPad definitely has that gaming apps market gatekept!

At this point it’s obvious these aren’t consumer protection mechanisms as much as they’re anti-tech measures meant to try to put the breaks on a highly competitive market that the EU is not a part of in hopes that home-grown alternatives can catch up.

But since the EU is so tech-hostile, why would anyone want to startup tech there?

Those well-meaning-but-terrible-in-practice consumer protection laws are probably a good indicator of why the EU isn’t a hub of technological innovation.

They’re at least a symptom of the same underlying outlook on the industry.