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Says the guy that won’t allow Meta Quest developers the same level of access to their own hardware. Example: How would someone develop a 3rd party controller for the Quest VR headsets? You can’t. They haven’t exposed that API (or the cameras fully!).
They don’t even let you set the clock on your Quest headset! Need to change timezones? Factory Reset
M-series chip might be the biggest leap in newer time in computers. I think that’s pretty well made by Apple at least.
What did Meta innovate? AI profiles?
They’ve made great innovations in creating right wing echo chambers.
What’s really rich about Meta and Zuckerberg’s incessant complaining about being restricted by Apple’s rules for third party software on Apple’s platforms is that Meta doesn’t allow third parties any sort of access to their successful platforms.
This is a bit of a false equivalency; “Apple’s” successful platform is a general-purpose computing device owned by the user while Meta’s are hosted services.
These traditionally have different expectations, with game consoles being the exception. Occulus devices seem more like game consoles to me, while iPhones are closer to general-purpose computers with a few weird restrictions. I don’t like either, but I see game consoles as less problematic because their use case isn’t important.
Isn’t the daringfireball blog a de facto front for Apple PR?
Uh… it’s a guy’s blog.
Uh… it’s a guy’s blog.
That “guy” is among the best known die hard Apple fanboys.
A guy who nearly always defends Apple’s controversial decisions. It’s probably not reasonable to treat him as neutral or fair in a dispute between Apple and any other entity.
Oh no, a guy has an opinion! Get him!
It’s fine that he has an opinion. It’s even fine that he’s a fanboy, but important for people evaluating what he says about Apple to know that he has a decades long record of being barely more neutral than the company’s PR department.
Daring fireball is a very popular blog. The guy invented markdown. He’s a very known Apple apologist. It’s not wrong for someone who knows Daring Fireball to assume anything he says positively about Apple or in defense of Apple has potential for his fanboy bias.
Who cares?
I thought it was a good read about the current state of technology, so I posted it in a technology community.
Fuck me, right?
The current state of technology is some jerkwad yammering with another jagoff? No, that’s not the state of technology.
