Or they get a cut of the sales price, same as a normal credit card fee? Hell if I know how they work it. Not my problem.

I’ll be blunt, if it’s available and I fail to use it responsibly, that’s my problem. If it’s available and multiple people fail to use it responsibly, then that’s their problem. If it’s multiple multiple people then it’s a matter for regulators.

Right?

The whole splitting a purchase over installments thing a useful tool when properly utilized. But like any tool, it shouldn’t be overly relied upon. But if you have an unexpected purchase? Sure, now I can split it across two paychecks instead of taking a lump sum from my emergency fund.

Yes, I’m aware. But it requires a deliberate extra step on the sort of the user, as I said earlier. So that reduces the visibility and likely the usage.

> Can you smell that sweet ad moolah? I sure can’t.

Which brings in the idea of just how immersive it will really be, until we can figure out a way to simulate taste and smell. Sight and sound, yep. Doable. Haptics, getting better. Taste and smell require direct chemical interaction, so you’d have to skip that and figure out the SAO style full dive.

> with realistic anatomy

Apple might not do it, but somebody is going to put some anime titties on an avatar. It’s inevitable. Lol

You can use the emoji and an emoji characters in FaceTime now, yes. But it can only track your head and it’s a little limited in the sense that you have to hold your iPhone, or iPad in front of your face.

Rethink that in the context of wearing VR goggles and having a companion motion tracking device in the room, so that your full body, animated avatar is live streamed to the person you’re having a conversation with. Or straight up, superimposed on the empty seat on the other end of the couch, if you’re using AR mode .

That’s going to be the interesting tipping point for the personal communications aspect of mixed reality

> I wouldn’t put it past apple to develop an AR FaceTime with avatars over real backgrounds

I mean, it’s the next logical step from FaceTime with Memoji and Animoji heads.

Animojis and Memojis are pretty impressive in their own way. It’s a shame they don’t get more traction, but then using them is a very deliberate action on the part of the user and takes effort beyond just sending a message or having a FaceTime.

They would be great for mixed reality avatars, if Apple can livestream them in real time.

Their focus on the metaverse is an interesting one. I’m not sure what their long-term monetization strategy was. With Apple, Microsoft, Sony, they sell actual products. Facebook monetizes user habits to sell ads. Not sure if Zuckerberg saw the metaverse as some sort of brave new world for advertising and engagement metrics or if he just really personally got tired of waiting for mainstream VR and decided to throw his company behind forcing it to happen.

> Apple is very good at taking all of these things that already exist and then having one moment where it comes together on stage in a way no one else has had the follow through in yet.

I think this is what gets into the core of the arguments where people call other people fanboys or haters. iPod, iPhone, iPad, iWatch Apple Watch… none of those were brand new unheard of product categories. Digital music players, smartphones, tablets and smartwatches existed before. But Apple managed to deliver more of an experience. Everything integrated, everything purposeful and (mostly) focused. You can’t in good faith argue that Apple hasn’t significantly changed the landscape of any product category it enters.

Edit: and that’s not to discount Android’s more experimental legacy, pushing features and concepts with each iteration. And often first.

Focus has gotten a little less as the ecosystem grows, but that was inevitable as a mature platform tries to be everything to everybody. Nonetheless, I trust Apple more than Facebook to actually launch a product that pushes mixed reality mainstream. I still don’t know one person IRL that has an Oculus/Meta Quest and Google Glass already tried and unfortunately failed. HoloLens may have been mortally wounded losing that military comtract. Sony is apparently doing well enough that they’re launching a PlayStation VR for their fifth generation consoles, but I don’t know if they could have any appreciable influence on making mixed reality commonplace.

iPhone versus any given android device is about 60-40 around me, favoring iPhone. Of those with iPhones, probably about 3 out of 4 seem to have Apple Watches. So that would make it roughly 40-50% of people I see have an Apple Watch, at least of those that have any smart watch at all. The other thing I notice is that those with an android device are less likely to have a smartwatch at all.

Difficult but not impossible. So with uncountable attempts at reproduction every generation you eventually get viable offspring with differing numbers of chromosomes that can branch off into their own species.

It’s a large numbers game.

> I think IPhone 16 will be wireless only

Wireless CarPlay isn’t quite ubiquitous enough juuust yet.

Never noticed the “pause” before. Probably because my iPhone lives in its Smart Battery Case. Does the clean energy use a different symbol or just also a “pause” symbol?

> Also, I don’t really wanna know if what you can shop for in hell.

Anything you want. And everything you’d never want. I’d assume all the markets are black markets. Keep that in mind if you ever find yourself there again.

I would think one doesn’t just meet the literal Devil once and then never again.

Well to be fair I graduated a few years back. And most of what was covered on Freud was general history of psychology and references to general theories.

Yeah. Another redditor linked an article and just the abstract was illuminating. I had no idea…

Right? It’s neat to see the other side of the coin.

That is interesting. I was a psychology major, so I’m more familiar with Freud than Nietzsche. Didn’t realize he predated Freud by decades!

And here I thought Sigmund Freud was the “Father of Psychoanalysis.” Author maybe needs a different title to bestow on Nietzsche. Also didn’t realize that Nietzsche predates Freud by such a wide margin.

> I personally can’t imagine caring about more money past a certain amount, but I think the process of becoming that wealthy weeds out people like us who don’t want it enough.

I’ve known a couple guys who had way more money than you’d think, based on their apparent standard of living. Like, he had a nice car, but you don’t get the first hints until you realize his car has every last bell an whistle and then some custom stuff too.

And then you notice his suits when he’s not wearing random anime and band t-shirts… but you had to be paying attention. Nothing about his attitude or everyday demeanor screamed “independently wealthy for several lifetimes.”

So those people do exist, but yeah I think there’s some sort of critical moral inflection point that 99% of the ultra-rich fail along the way.

> These are addicts, except the damage they cause is global.

That’s probably a pretty damn accurate assessment. At a certain point, the drive that some people have to “accomplish more” just become a drive to “have more.” There’s never a point that’s “enough.” It’s a vicious cycle

You have clearly never met either my mother or my wife. I can assure you, they both care very much. I fought the good fight — and I lost.

Oh hey, I have that one! I keep it in the “green branch” configuration.

I get that if your 14PM had a physical SIM tray, you could’ve have avoided that hassle. But I can’t shake the feeling that about 99% of that is just overregulation and bureaucratic inefficiency. As well as that carriers specific rules.

Edit: how long should Apple have held out on pure eSIM, in your opinion? Serious, respectful question