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On its own, no. With a robot arm, yes. The idea sounds absurd (at least what I could read of it before the paywall). Either it’s fake, or Apple is so desperate to innovate that they lost touch with reality and how real people actually live. At best this sounds like a little skunkworks project just to see how something like that could work, not something with hundreds of people driving toward a release.

Where would a robot arm with an iPad on the end be a better solution than Vision Pro?

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> Where would a robot arm with an iPad on the end be a better solution than Vision Pro?

On my kitchen counter, where I currently have an iPad Pro that is stationary and I wish nearly every day it would follow me as I move about the kitchen whilst cooking.

I’ve seen demos of people using the Vision Pro while cooking. It seems better. Timers could be places in space about the pots on the stove, the user can interact with recipes or whatever when their hands are dirty, and they probably wouldn’t tear up while cutting onions.

A robot arms will only move so much, I don’t see it being able to follow someone around a kitchen.

I have a Vision Pro, and have tried it in the kitchen. It's too cumbersome and too visually distorting.

Speaking for myself, I don't need something that follows me all over the kitchen, just something that adjusts to my movements in a somewhat confined space. Center Stage already does this fairly well when FaceTiming.

The iMac G4 was basically an iPad on a robot arm.

...basically

I’d love an iMac M4, just the new M4 chip in the G4 body, with an updated display.

I don’t think a robot would add much to the package. It was perfect as it was.

Meh, I don’t like all-in-ones. I loved my iMac G4 at the time but there’s now no reason to tie your computer into your display permanently.

At least back then screen technology was moving so fast that you could maybe justify that waste. If you bought an iMac G4 and then your next computer was an Intel iMac you would be getting a major screen upgrade.

But now I’d say that the average person doesn’t really have any great need to buy a new display until it physically stops working.

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