Computers were invented to speed up calculations, and yet the primary thing we use them for today is to read the news and send each other messages and memes…
I think it’s totally reasonable, to expect developers to find the real use
I think it’s totally reasonable, to expect developers to find the real use
"Better Than Life: Las Vegas"
Games, gambling, shows, and porn all in one "so immersive you won't want to leave" experience.
"Disney ain't got nuthin' on this!"
The Vision Pro was showcased with Disney as a content partner. While Disney has historically featured "family friendly" entertainment, there is definitely a market for adult entertainment that the Vision Pro could excel in.
Is it "an exciting Las Vegas adventure in the privacy of your home" or "a lonely person in a dark room trying to escape the sadness of reality"?
FWIW, my take is that this is yet another "slippery" media [0] and will mutate to whatever form brings its creators the most succe$$
Apple won't allow alternate stores on Apple-branded mobile devices, or sideloading.
This is a fundamental disrespect of their customers who have purchased the device. Apple regards their brand image more than allowing their customers to display what they want on the device they own.
Combine that and pornography and I think you’ve nailed it. Pun possibly intended.
- Janet, the Good Place
As far as I’m aware you can’t do that with iOS devices (potentially including the AR ones).
Sure you can. You can fire up Xcode right now and build a self signed app to your phone with whatever the heck you want in it. Distributing that on the App Store is another story, but there's nothing stopping you from executing whatever arbitrary code you'd like on your own phone.
Try altering the iOS home screen behaviour, directly accessing the filesystem, writing your own device driver or tweaking the kernel. You certainly don't have "bare metal access" except by voiding your warranty and risking bricking your device by jailbreaking it, if there even is a jailbreak exploit that currently works on your device.
The first computers were operated by the British and US defence establishments. Could you explain in which way you feel ENIAC was "100% open platform"?
The word is meaningless as you use it.
And again with Objective-C it's impossible to prevent private API usage unless you have some sort of App Store model which can inspect the binaries and prevent abuse.
So it's ultimately going to be the same as iOS.
A alternative is to sandbox applications to prevent them from calling anything else than the official API, and to use a less restrictive sandbox for applications signed by a key owned by the vendor.
Yes, yes they could. That's not and shouldn't be Apple's problem. That's your workplace's problem to regulate how the device is used on-site, the government's problem to regulate how it can be used in public, your household's problem on how it can be used in private, etc.
The device will be inevitably jail-broken anyways, so a walled-garden isn't going to stop bad actors.
Not to mention, most of the things you mentioned can already be accomplished with less expensive and much more subtle devices, like a standard digital camera. And those device definitely don't try to prevent abuse. (Imagine if your camera refused to take a picture because it thought you didn't have permission!)
Apple can't just capture them and then allow any rogue app to access it. The device would be considered a threat to national security and banned.
And no there are no other mass consumer devices which specifically store a 3D representation of your face and a high resolution scan of your retinal pattern.
Considering the vast majority of exploits on Windows are not the fault of Windows and are the fault of 3rd party applications. The fault is always put on Microsoft.
If Apple gives you free rein, and shit hits the fan. People won’t blame the company for allowing a piece of software to go rogue. People will blame Apple.