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Yeah - I’ve tried metas controllers and it felt clumsy and effortfull to use the UI. The descriptions of Apple’s eye tracking sound far superior.

Why wouldn’t makers of light saber toys just add a buzzer? That would be far better than a game controller, and super cheap to add.

> Value as a toy/trinket is obvious.

It’s hard to accept that you can only see this as a toy or trinket. No serious observer is characterizing it that way even if they are uncertain about its future.

I’m not saying apple is infallible. I’m saying it’s silly for people who have so little experience by comparison to be confidently dismissive. It’s obvious that Apple is less fallible than random commentators. I’m not saying they can’t fail, only that if you don’t don’t see the value, that should make you curious about why you don’t see it and why Apple does.

> won’t have a controller standard to work against

There is no reason this is how it would play out.

By haptics you mean a buzzer? That doesn’t replicate any kind of real-world experience.

But again - there is no reason gamers can’t have a control, but it’s silly to use a game controller to interact with a computing environment when you can use your hands.

It’s compatible with any Bluetooth controller, but I see no reason it would be a nonstarter.

Remember it has full hand tracking. If you want to hold something e.g. a lightsaber or whatever, there is no reason not to. An inert plastic prop should work just fine.

From the early reports, there is nobody saying they have to focus in some special way - you just look at the control, and tap.

> Are these people similarly traumatized when they open a desk drawer or photo album and happen to see an old photo that evokes sad memories?

This sounds like a plot point from a 1970s detective movie. People use their phones to take photos these days, but before that they used digital cameras.

The rest of the article puts it in context. They have had bad experiences with the photos app prompting them with inappropriate ‘memories’, and this is reminding them of that.

Confirmation bias is never a prior.

This isn’t true.

The headline is an outright lie.

Later in the article they say:

  Some kinds of data are always end-to-end encrypted, even with the default standard data protection:

  Passwords and Keychain
  Health data
  Home data
  Messages in iCloud (only when iCloud backup is disabled)
  Payment information
  Apple Card transactions
  Maps
  QuickType Keyboard learned vocabulary
  Safari
  Screen Time
  Siri information (excluding Siri Shortcuts)
  WiFi passwords
  W1 and H1 Bluetooth keys
  Memoji

Will they? It seems like tracking hands and objects directly provides much more information than gripping the two sides of a broken in-half Xbox controller.

That makes sense - it looked very much like a pure open source project.

I wonder if they came to him or if someone else facilitated it as opposed to it being his initiative.

> I can’t help think Apple’s sudden interest in making web apps more useful has to do with visionOS.

Of course it does.

But that has nothing to do with the cynical conspiratorial manipulation you then go on to describe.