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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It doesn't have a poor battery life it has a poor battery design. If they put a decent battery on the damn thing it would be okay, it's not particularly power hungry but apple just give it a gnat's testicle of a battery.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The design makes perfect sense. You can trivially add an additional pack with capacity if that's your use case. The included pack does the power management and has enough for plenty of people without being in the way, and it's as simple as plugging in any source of USC-C power at appropriate specs to extend it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That would be a fine argument if the device didn't cost more than my mortgage repayments. But for device that expensive, they absolutely need to put a decent battery on the thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    A "decent battery" is bigger and more weight to carry around that plenty of use cases don't want or benefit from. It's not small for cost reasons. It's because it's a worse device if you force it to be huge.

    The price is high, but only if you ignore how much tech is in it. A lesser but close dumb display from anyone else is thousands in its own.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    There isn't a single use case that wouldn't improve with a longer lifespan of the device.

    It is nothing but Apple marketing bullshit to claim people want a small battery, and nothing but Apple greed to increase the profit by using worse components.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    When that lifespan is at the cost of meaningful extra bulk you have to carry around, there are plenty.

    It's not saving them money. It's because being required to carry a giant battery no matter what you want to do is a significantly worse product.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes it's got lots of cool tech in it, none of which does anything. Excuse me while I go and watch Netflix on a display that costs 1/10 of the money yet has thousands of times the functionality.

    Being overly complicated doesn't mean it's worth money.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Don't buy it if you don't want AR.

    But it's beyond idiotic to trash the first device on the market actually capable of functional AR because you personally don't care about the tech people have been waiting decades for.

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