Apple's taste for what to work on seems to have totally failed. Make a cheaper and lighter headset or start on glasses. Either way no one wants Apple Intelligence and least of all on the Vision Pro.
That's because these form factors cannot work. Even at half the weight, a feat that's probably a decade away, they're still a face-smashing PC held in place with straps that go around your head. There is no use cases outside of specialized industry where going into the office and donning even that light weight facial PC will be acceptable to normal people. It's a non-starter and always has been.
Despite having the patents on what became the Vision Pro, Steve would have smothered that baby in the crib the day his team couldn't answer how women, half of the population, were going to deal with the caked on makeup and nastiness of that light seal after a few uses. That the Apple of today either didn't consider that, didn't care, or has the hubris to think they can force that on us is irrelevant. What matters is that Apple failed here to consider the user and seems to only have considered the competition and the stock price.
I do want Apple Intelligence, I use it daily on my Mac. Agree on the Vision Pro though; I liked mine when I had one, but it was way too expensive for something that I was actively searching to find a use case for.
Basically I just like the native integrations you get by having it built in with the platform.
I gave apple intelligence one week before deciding to disable it everywhere.
Though, I am quite bearish on “AI” assistance. (i have AI in quotes because theres a lot of machine learning things, like machine vision, that smell and sound a lot like what we call AI today).
I should clarify, that's exactly what I do want and pretty much what I use it for; I like it for its platform integrations. I like the automatic summarization¹ of my new emails, iMessages, various notifications, etc. I also like being able to highlight any text in my browser and have it summarize it or, if I've written it, proofread it.
I don't use the chatting features at all. I think I've tried that a total of three times, and the last two it explicitly asked me if I wanted to have it ask ChatGPT handle the request because it was complex or something like that.
¹ I'm aware of the issues surrounding AI summarization; I still read my emails and messages, but I like it for getting an idea of what's going on in my inboxes at a glance.
Everyone expects iPhone or nothing though.
Apple was never inherently good at coming up with new products, they brought in good talent and gave them a good environment to work in. Remove that and you remove the competency from the business.
There is no technology path between these goggles and a spectacles form factor. This tech, the "immersive" goggles, is a dead end and money spent on it would have been better spent on inventing the technologies we need for actually acceptable form factors, or pretty much anything else you can think of, actually.