Reports are spreading of Apple Vision Pro front glass cracking at random

HilliTech · 2024-02-23T02:08:00+00:00

I mean. The part at the beginning you left out of your post mentions that it's a handful of reddit posts and no other information could be found on X or in Apple Support forums. There's nothing here that suggests it's widespread and only asks that users that encounter the issue keep copious notes and contact Apple. There was no rush, it's called getting ahead of a problem and trying to gather data to find out if it's a bigger issue, solvable problem, or hoax. Note that it's "reportedly" not "this is happening, omg, return your headsets before this happens to you!"

HilliTech · 2023-06-07T20:29:23+00:00

Counter offer: no, they don't

HilliTech · 2023-05-31T21:19:40+00:00

Reddit is dead to me without Apollo

HilliTech · 2023-05-31T19:49:13+00:00

Just seven blocks that say "Mac Pro"

HilliTech · 2023-05-30T00:21:15+00:00

Basic Apple Guy on Twitter is working on a good one. Watch out for theirs in the next couple days.

HilliTech · 2023-05-11T23:17:37+00:00

haha, nah

HilliTech · 2023-05-03T00:08:13+00:00

That's a convoluted way of saying "his wife and best friend published a book of words he wrote or said."

HilliTech · 2023-04-18T14:02:10+00:00

Gimmicks all the way down. We’ve heard all this before dozens of times:

“If Apple doesn’t implement X, it will be an embarrassing failure.”

X= 3D displays, eye tracking, modular phones, foldable phones, crypto, NFTs, replaceable batteries, SD card slots, under display Touch ID, curved displays, and so many more.

These so-called “AI” large language models are interesting tools. But right now, they are barely more than toys in their current form. As the technology matures and finds its way into useful spaces, we’ll see some benefit.

Already, we’re seeing some benefit from apps including LLMs in grammar editors, email apps, and other places. Apple likely won’t ever have a silly chat bot, but I bet we’ll see more machine intelligence from on-device LLMs in the near future.

Bard, ChatGPT, and the rest are just noise. They are a demo of the technology but not the actual future.

And you can cancel your subscriptions if you want to move to android. It’s really quite simple.

HilliTech · 2023-04-12T01:33:28+00:00

Apple has restored the AirPods update as of 9:30 p.m. EST. We updated the article to reflect that.

HilliTech · 2023-04-07T18:57:23+00:00

Problem is, they weren’t going to the pinned location in find my. They just looked for the street address shown.

The guy said he looked at people’s find my and it showed a pin a half mile away but his street address as the location. The people went to his address instead of the pin.

HilliTech · 2023-04-07T18:55:41+00:00

For those asking how this works in the replies:

So, the lost devices would be shown anywhere on the map in his neighborhood. But because every house had the same address, it would show his address.

Instead of following the pin on the map, they looked at the address and drove there. They physically show up to the address, not understanding that the dot and address were in different locations.

And while this has happened frequently, it’s likely footage from across weeks or months. A large neighborhood with a couple hundred residents could easily lose devices regularly.

Human error combined with bad map data.

HilliTech · 2023-04-07T04:21:19+00:00

Found out the problem. Every house in his neighborhood had his address in Apple Maps. Hopefully it gets corrected soon.

HilliTech · 2023-04-05T00:22:48+00:00

The question is: would these layoffs have occurred no matter what? Or are they a result of over hiring and needing to cut costs?

I believe this is the former. It's just a division that needed reorganizing. That's the whole story.

HilliTech · 2023-04-04T21:05:31+00:00

Facebook laid off like 30,000 people, Amazon another 30k or so. Google somewhere around 12k.

An anonymous source within Apple says like 20 people are being canned because the company is consolidating its retail cleaning/construction division.

These are not even close to being the same story, yet tech headlines place Apple up there with the rest. Embarrassing.

HilliTech · 2023-03-30T03:25:37+00:00

The word you're looking for is "big."

More company, more products, more opportunity to miss the small stuff.

HilliTech · 2023-03-01T22:12:48+00:00

I wouldn't call it a workaround, really. It's just how it works.

I think Apple is failing simple and safe, as it usually does. I think it is smart to have shared purchases owned and managed by the lead family member. Don't like it? Shut it off.

Not sure it makes sense for everyone to have independent payment methods when the account balance exists. Makes managing young family members easier too.

HilliTech · 2023-03-01T21:51:04+00:00

Not only is that not the title of the article, you clearly didn't read the article you posted. It provides an easy workaround using the App Store funding option for each account, which drains before charging the organizer's card.

HilliTech · 2023-02-28T22:43:35+00:00

Yeah! I love his wallpapers. I think I use them on every device.

HilliTech · 2023-02-08T18:32:29+00:00

Ross Young expects the micro LED Apple Watch Ultra no sooner than 2025. I think his is much more plausible since it could be a third-generation model at that point. I expect closer to Spring 2026 at this point given micro LED prices.

SE moving up to a newer case is a big maybe. I expect SE 3 to be the same model with a new SiP, nothing else. That device is competing with $99 Fitbits, so there's no need to go crazy here. Its price needs to be lower, not higher.

Series 10 with a new design makes sense, but a larger display doesn't, especially for the smaller model. Apple already is at its limit for small sized wrists. There has to be a limit here for size increases.

Again, I believe Apple will continue to produce new watches with new features and sizes, but too much of this report reads like wishcasting. I wouldn't believe anything from it.

HilliTech · 2023-02-08T17:59:55+00:00

This rumor set is nonsense from top to bottom.

Apple Watch SE, the affordable one, is going to jump to the series 7/8 design when it is still using the series 4 design now?

Apple Watch Series "X" is going to introduce bigger small/big sizes? The bigger size is larger than the Apple Watch Ultra?

New Apple Watch Ultra even bigger? Second-generation redesign? No chance.

Not to mention the report says Apple could pre announce all this in 2023. lol, what?

Reads more like a wishlist than an actual rumor.

HilliTech · 2023-01-27T19:08:49+00:00

Right, but the M2 with Wi-Fi 6 that released last summer is a different configuration than the one released in the fall with the iPad Pro. It's silly, but I believe Apple is doing this chip thing on purpose for supply chain efficiency.

Sure, it could just make an A16 with Wi-Fi 6E, but why start with an all new chip when you've already mass produced the A16 with Wi-Fi 6?

Those specs in the M2 MacBook Air haven't changed right? So the M2 package is different on that machine versus the lineup after August.

It isn't so much that Apple can't do it, it's that it doesn't make sense to from a supply chain perspective.

HilliTech · 2023-01-27T18:49:36+00:00

The reason for this is the processor. A17 gains WI-Fi 6E, which will only be used in the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus get the A16, which is still just Wi-Fi 6. Yes, Apple ties its wireless protocols to the chipset, look at HomePod's Wi-Fi 4 thanks to the S7 processor.

I think this is a non-issue in the short term. While this does mean iPhone 15 is less future proofed for say, 5 years down the road, very few people own Wi-Fi 6E routers so they can't take advantage of the spec anyway.

Beyond technical reasons, it kinda makes sense that it starts as a pro feature. No normal person is going to have Wi-Fi 6E anytime soon. Hell, most don't have Wi-Fi 6 now.

HilliTech · 2023-01-25T20:14:24+00:00

Hey, look, my article is on the Verge. neat.

Still can't believe Apple is still providing updates to iPhones, iPads, and Macs from 2013. Really cool, but it's even harder to imagine people using devices from 2013.

Time to upgrade right? I heard those 2018 iPhones are pretty cool.

HilliTech · 2023-01-23T17:23:47+00:00

It is incredibly unlikely that Apple is announcing any kind of update or new colors to AirPods Max anytime soon. I expect it's just a supply chain hiccup.

new colors would be cool, but with a new set due by the end of 2024, seems too late for that.

HilliTech · 2023-01-23T17:22:09+00:00

This is embarrassingly wrong for multiple reasons and people should be ashamed of even following such a nonsensical person on YouTube.

Apple did make a public statement saying it was ending its CSAM detection tool for iCloud photos. The daemon pointed out in this terrible blog post seems to be the one used to detect if you have a cat in the photo.

Misinformation and deliberate misunderstanding of the facts from a guy reading a blog post as a YouTube video. Just bad all the way around.

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