Another example: Apple forgot about selling bicycles for the mind. They sell media kiosks now.
Not trying to pick on them in particular, but that was a vivid realization when I got the Vision Pro. I love it as a Mac upgrade. It should be a total independent Mac replacement. The new work horse high end. It says "Pro"! Give me 2x, 4x, 8x more computing power, no sandbox, and more system level creative/customization power. Raise the price!
I want to see my data. See serious math. Move through my files as a visual navigatable graph. Surround myself with my tools for every project. Then save that context. Contexts saved for dozens of projects, small or large, important or rabbit hole, that I can drop and pick up exactly where I left off. Tomorrow, next year, never, or after I die and the investigators are trying to figure out the secrets I was working on, why I was assassinated. You know - things the hackers would have done in Neuromancer!
Instead, the Apple Store people couldn't stop telling me about a cool app for looking at the stars. Neat! But I don't want lots of "cool" $2.99 throw away apps.
I want VR for the mind.
Instead, it's just a nice enormous Mac screen upgrade, which lets me sit in bed working and Hacker Newsing, ignoring the kiosk that gets Tim Cook up in the morning.
The web: the Commercial Commons. True dystopia.
Another example: Apple forgot about selling bicycles for the mind. They sell media kiosks now.
Not trying to pick on them in particular, but that was a vivid realization when I got the Vision Pro. I love it as a Mac upgrade. It should be a total independent Mac replacement. The new work horse high end. It says "Pro"! Give me 2x, 4x, 8x more computing power, no sandbox, and more system level creative/customization power. Raise the price!
I want to see my data. See serious math. Move through my files as a visual navigatable graph. Surround myself with my tools for every project. Then save that context. Contexts saved for dozens of projects, small or large, important or rabbit hole, that I can drop and pick up exactly where I left off. Tomorrow, next year, never, or after I die and the investigators are trying to figure out the secrets I was working on, why I was assassinated. You know - things the hackers would have done in Neuromancer!
Instead, the Apple Store people couldn't stop telling me about a cool app for looking at the stars. Neat! But I don't want lots of "cool" $2.99 throw away apps.
I want VR for the mind.
Instead, it's just a nice enormous Mac screen upgrade, which lets me sit in bed working and Hacker Newsing, ignoring the kiosk that gets Tim Cook up in the morning.