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Federico Viticci

The Apple Vision Pro is a watershed moment for personal computing.

I tried it a week ago, and haven't stopped thinking about it since.

Here is my story on three pivotal moments from my Vision Pro demo and why spatial computing is a new frontier.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-vision-pro-a-watershed-moment/

Apple Vision Pro: A Watershed Moment for Personal Computing

I’m going to be direct with this story. My 30-minute demo with Vision Pro last week was the most mind-blowing moment of my 14-year career covering Apple and technology. I left the demo speechless, and it took me a few days to articulate how it felt. How I felt. It’s not just that I was

Jeff Atwood Jun 13, 2023

@viticci the Don Draper carousel. really. really. wow, man. Imagine being this excited about the first apple watch. I wish I still had that sense of childlike wonder about the world.

Steven Barnhart Jun 13, 2023

@codinghorror @viticci right. Or the iPad enthusiasm seems silly now considering how long it took to get useful and is today mostly still an accessory.

chetman Jun 13, 2023

@StevenBarnhart @codinghorror @viticci That’s a crazy weird take on the iPad.

Steven Barnhart Jun 13, 2023

@chetman @codinghorror @viticci Really not an uncommon one considering the years of complaints about the OS being a huge letdown to the hardware. They can’t even get multitasking right.

chetman Jun 13, 2023

@StevenBarnhart @codinghorror @viticci That power users of the Mac were unhappy the iPad was something different is not news, but that doesn’t render the iPad disappointing to people who saw beyond that bias.

It just reminds us how short-sighted that reaction was.

Steven Barnhart Jun 13, 2023

@chetman @codinghorror @viticci it’s not anyone’s primary machine in the office or at home. That’s the phone and the computer. Next?

pebcak Jun 13, 2023

@StevenBarnhart @chetman @codinghorror @viticci that might be true for you. It was for a long time the main machine for my then preteen son... he made his own audiobooks with it. If he had not moved to 3d modeling and animation it would likely still be his primary machine. It's a generational thing.

Steven Barnhart Jun 13, 2023

@pebcak @chetman @codinghorror @viticci right he moved to actual production work. Most podcasts STILL aren’t on iPad either. It’s only just now getting proper external mic support.

pebcak Jun 13, 2023

@StevenBarnhart @chetman @codinghorror @viticci but the only reason he moved is processing power. (It's not production work, he's a carpenter. ;))

Jeff Atwood Jun 13, 2023

@pebcak @StevenBarnhart @chetman odd because the M2 is quite powerful (assuming iPad Pro). I guess if you need obscene amounts of compute..

Steven Barnhart Jun 14, 2023

@codinghorror @pebcak @chetman the iPads memory management has sucked until recently with memory swapping. If you wanted to see me enraged just watch me use the browser and some apps and go to copy and paste between them and see that the iPad reset the app.

@StevenBarnhart @pebcak @chetman note that the 1TB iPad Pro models have 16gb RAM, anything with 512gb or less have 8gb RAM.

Jeff Atwood Jun 14, 2023

@StevenBarnhart @pebcak @chetman also are you really seeing a lot of tab swapping with 8gb RAM? Because that's a fair bit of RAM even on the "low end"

Steven Barnhart Jun 14, 2023

@codinghorror @pebcak @chetman randomly but no not as much. Sadly lots lately on my iPhone 12. It never wants to handle anything these days. I was speaking more so the situation until recently.

Jeff Atwood Jun 14, 2023

@StevenBarnhart @pebcak @chetman well, iphone 12 is 4gb ram, iphone 13 and 14 are 6gb ram. Maybe 15 will jump to 8gb? Google says the iPhone 15 Pros will have 8gb, indeed. Apple has always been frustratingly stingy with RAM and storage, but over time they're getting there. Where they should have been a few years ago..

Steven Barnhart Jun 14, 2023

@codinghorror @pebcak @chetman yeah just crazy to think because it was so fast for so long and feels like it just cratered recently. Constantly running lot on 64 GB too and barely am a picture taker. The damn apps are too big these days.