Re: Apple Investors Beware?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Apple Investors Beware?
Date	2017-05-08 16:17 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-05-08, Doc O'Leary <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> wrote:
>
>> The push from most others and Apple seems to be in the Siri like
>> interfaces and home "assistant" devices.
>
> Which is unfortunate, because that kind of voice interface is all I 
> really wanted from a smart watch.  It makes zero sense, and is 
> downright creepy as currently implemented, to restrict it to always 
> listening at a fixed location.

It's not restricted to always listening at a fixed location since you
can use Siri on any Apple Watch:

<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205184>

> Beyond that, I think Apple would find things like VR and augmented 
> reality more in tune with their core technologies.  Yet not a peep 
> from them about it.

If you think they haven't had anything to say about it, you haven't been
listening:

Tim Cook says VR is nice, but augmented reality is the future
<http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/tim-cook-augmented-reality/#BTXhP.R1cqqV>

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Augmented Reality Will Be As Big As the iPhone
<http://fortune.com/2017/02/13/apple-tim-cook-ar-augmented-reality-iphone/>

Tim Cook: Augmented reality is the future
<http://www.macworld.com/article/3168043/government/tim-cook-augmented-reality-is-the-future-and-fake-news-is-ruining-everything.html>

> They either don’t care for some reason, or are making gangbusters
> progress and keeping it secret.

Apple *always* avoids announcing much of anything until the user
experience is great and they are near release. It's their modus
operandi.

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JR

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Apple Investors Beware? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2017-05-07 01:05 -0400
  Re: Apple Investors Beware? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2017-05-07 17:33 +1200
  Re: Apple Investors Beware? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-07 05:49 +0000
  Re: Apple Investors Beware? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-07 10:35 -0400
    Re: Apple Investors Beware? android <here@there.was> - 2017-05-07 17:17 +0200
      Re: Apple Investors Beware? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-07 15:31 +0000
        Re: Apple Investors Beware? android <here@there.was> - 2017-05-07 17:44 +0200
          Re: Apple Investors Beware? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-07 16:13 +0000
            Re: Apple Investors Beware? android <here@there.was> - 2017-05-07 18:37 +0200
              Re: Apple Investors Beware? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-05-07 16:46 +0000
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                Re: Apple Investors Beware? android <here@there.was> - 2017-05-07 21:09 +0200
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                Re: Apple Investors Beware? android <here@there.was> - 2017-05-08 05:16 +0200
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