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Steve Troughton-Smith Jun 2, 2023

I am completely convinced that AR-style extended reality is the thing that can someday replace desktop computing for a lot of people, if it is not hobbled by poor management and ecosystem decisions before it gets there. Keep your physical keyboard and trackpad, but virtualize your monitors and your macOS environment. If Apple's headset really is on a path, however many years away, towards becoming traditional glasses, this all seems inevitable. Perhaps eventually you won't even need the glasses

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Steve Troughton-Smith Jun 2, 2023

There is so much room for xrOS to grow; software no longer confined to a little aluminum and glass box you carry with you, or sit on your desk. There really is nothing else out there in the space anywhere good enough to be your next primary computing platform, just tasteless tech demos and crummy UI playgrounds, filled with jank and despair, plus some admittedly fun games-players. Even as 'merely’ an iPad-for-your-face, an Apple XR headset has such a potential lead over everything else

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Steve Troughton-Smith Jun 2, 2023

You know what I don't want to see from an xrOS demo? Some arty experimental music track visualized in 3D 😂 Nor cute little animals running round my room, nor any of the other dumb smoke and mirror tech demo things everybody else has relied on in lieu of actual content. Show me a real OS, with real apps, with real ways for it all to fit into my life; a fully armed and operational Apple-powered app and content ecosystem

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Jeff

@stroughtonsmith Showing Uber or Lyft, with your car somewhere off in the distance approaching. Or maybe even just widgets running in the corners like on the Watch.

If they can fit the guys of an Apple Watch Ultra into regular looking glasses, LOTS of people would buy them. We’ll probably see the face huggers, though.