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@fexd the shift seems fabricated. They are smart glasses. The same as smart watch and smart phone. All of which have AI. We aren’t rebranding those things. Meta wants to market “AI” glasses and people keep repeating them.

@harrymccracken I agree and think VisionOS was well executed. But VisionOS and Liquid Glass are not the same thing. There's some things borrowed from VisionOS in Liquid Glass but at least VisionOS was legible always.

@nerds.xyz or maybe Tim Cook is 65 years old and has decided to retire. Who can say. Steve Ballmer retired from Microsoft at 58.

@jwcph I can’t speak to what the default home screen is now but it never wasn’t on the first home screen whenever I’ve gotten a new phone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@jwcph the app called “photos” is not intuitive enough? I’m pretty confused. How does android do it?

Good test of how much fast-charging and battery-health settings affect iPhone battery health over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5Cg_yNdM

(tl;dr: some, but not much)

Don’t be like Amy. Ask the bigger questions like Melanie.

@mindlude I don't think it will make a difference. At this point they are glorified personal smart TVs.

Apple is slowly making moves into professional use with Muse support and the Desktop Mac apps opening up spatial scenes. But I've heard of no major partnerships or 3d creative apps supporting that yet.

I doubt Samsung will have any luck moving numbers. They may sell more but that's just more of them to be returned or sit on shelves collecting dust.

They need value beyond entertainment apps

@ArthurLemon Fare enough. I have an iPhone 13 mini. My battery life is horrid compared to iPhone air. But my mini has two cameras and I use the ultra wide angle enough to not want to lose that option.

@ArthurLemon @matt_birchler

"Over the years I’ve seen so many reports that people say battery life is the most important update they want from a phone"

that was you, author. People care about battery life. You are telling them battery capacity.

@ArthurLemon @matt_birchler You conflating battery capacity with battery life, what people care about.

iPhone 11 is over 5 Years old. Since then, the rest of the hardware has become more energy performant.

Despite having nearly the same capacity as iPhone 11, iPhone air gets double the streamed video playback which is equal to iPhone 16 pro.

If Matt says it's not quite as good as Apple's specs in real use that's valid but it's not as bad as you've been telling people.

@matt_birchler ha same. If I’m feeling really adventurous, I might buy it with the singular intent to try it and then return it. My curiosity of if it’s actually better in the meaningful way might get to me.

@BenRiceM apparently its not going to be tall when folded. It’s going to be short and wide. A weird new aspect ratio for a phone. It will be a nice iPad aspect ratio when unfolded.

At least that’s the only logical option based on rumored screen diagonals.

@matt_birchler hey are you gonna be able to get your hands on the m5 AVP?

Since you had similar issues with the quality of the virtual display I was wondering if that “10%” pixel increase had any meaningful improvements to text sharpness.

@ArthurLemon @matt_birchler it’s not dramatically smaller. It’s as good as the pro was last year. It’s slightly smaller.

Maybe the issue is people taking making rumors instead of saying it how it is at stores.

@fistfulofdave there’s pixels and then there pixel density which means that the same number of pixels on a more dense screen appear smaller than on a less dense screen. If they really care about the physical size of something, it’s more accurate to talk about actual distance measures which are a constant regardless of screen density.

@daringfireball is Apple Vision Pro a weird exception to calling Apple products by the right name?

It’s not just you but the whole industry. No one says “Watch Ultra” or “TV 4k” but for some reason Apple Vision Pro is “Vision Pro” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I try to at least use AVP to abbreviate its actual name.

@variety.com Yea, next year is a long way off.

@SomeGadgetGuy You still care about this?

Where's your coverage of Meta's glasses with a screen?