Sir_Twist

Thanks for the explanation! I haven't seen someone use a mouse like that before, very interesting.

It might be more productive if you went into how you think people are using it incorrectly, ie. how you view it is "supposed" to be used in macOS.

I have ADHD. I am not a doctor, and I don't have any real authority on the subject beyond my personal experience. But one thing I have observed about discussions on ADHD is that people with ADHD tend to fall on a spectrum, with a wide range of severity and presentation of symptoms. So I think it is unfortunate that these discussions make such broad, sweeping claims about what ADHD is and isn't, and what impact it really has.

I can't speak for anyone else, so I will just speak for myself: I am a college student, and my normal experience is having to fight tooth and nail for capturing every deadline, every little detail - the actual "difficulty" of the class is not what makes it difficult for me. I have had to construct systems around my symptoms: an "inbox" notebook for deadlines, a complex to-do list system, a system of pages upon pages where I break down large tasks into smaller ones, because only then will it be possible to get them done. A sleep tracking notebook, a notebook for exercising, a time blocking journal, and so on. I manage to get by, and I get good grades, but every morning I wake up prepared for war. I am in a permanent state of playing blitz chess against my mind's most insatiable distractions - a hard problem to solve with a system, since the only thing making me use a system is myself. I don't use TikTok or any other social media, which has garnered more than a few odd looks from my friends over the years, but frankly I consider it completely necessary.

I don't think about my ADHD as a part of my identity, or a part of my personality. It is, however, a disorder. Unless the world magically reconstructs itself around these symptoms, this will continue to be the case, because I simply do not have the same abilities as the average person in any given task of attention or impulse. Of course, the "average person" doesn't really exist; everyone has their own issues, their own reasons to wake up prepared for war. Everyone has something going on that deeply concerns them, whether others know it or not. But, for me, ADHD would not make sense if it weren't a disorder. It is a constant disabling factor in my life. Given that ADHD is one of the most well-researched and scientifically demonstrated neurological conditions, I doubt it is going anywhere anytime soon. But my ADHD is not a normal way to interface with the world. It was never "solved" with positive reinforcement from teachers, nor is it restricted to the classroom. Such a fundamental issue is not solved with basic accommodations - there is no silver bullet against the monkey in my head.

All of that being said, this is just my own experience, and my own thinking. I'm sorry for the long wall of text, but a lot of these discussions take the person out of the disorder, and consider broad swaths of the population according to the commenters' personal sociological constructions of the world, so I wanted to contribute my own individual experience here.

I agree with you, but to play devils advocate: beyond the physicality of the device (whether it’s uncomfortable or ugly), how does this change the relationship between you and your information in a way that phones and smartwatches don’t? If information is already instantly accessible, how does a pair of glasses with the same capabilities change the acceptability of the concept?

I wonder whether the behavior Apple has exhibited around their developer relations (especially their EU / notorization related troubles) has had a chilling effect on people's willingness to support a new platform like this. Without the raw number of users that something like the iPhone has, does Apple make it worthwhile to create apps / games for their platforms? I'm not a developer, so maybe there is a more technical reason for this, but from the outside it seems as though both indie developers and large tech companies (like Google not making a YouTube app, and Netflix) are reluctant to support VisionOS.

Or, maybe it isn't Apple-specific; maybe there simply isn't enough users, or VR/AR as a software paradigm is currently too far removed from how companies design their applications, and it is just a matter of time until they adapt. Like I said, I am not a developer, so maybe I'm missing something obvious here.

Apple Intelligence works 8 gigs because of the phone's ram limit, no?

I don’t consider myself a very technical person, but (anecdata incoming) for everyone I know, the iPad is inadequate as a personal computer. It is great as an individual media consumption device, but beyond that its capacity is limited at best and nonexistent at worst. Multi - user support, especially for families with kids sharing the “family iPad”, is not supported. A student exporting a video for a school project in iMovie in the background isn’t supported; the app must remain in the foreground at all times. Obviously downloading games from Steam / Epic isn’t (currently) possible. All of these are normal things non-technical people expect out of a “real” computer. Of course, I could very well be wrong, and I am open to evidence to the contrary. But, for what it’s worth, I have never personally known anyone who has taken the iPad seriously beyond the most basic computational needs.