Of course Ethan doesn’t want to escape reality, he lives in the East Bay, talks to interesting people/celebrities for a living, and semi-recently quit a job covering the most famous basketball players on the planet. If he were a teenager on a farm in North Dakota in February he might feel differently!
On Apple, I think a lot of these takes sound a lot like the ones about the Watch or AirPods. They’re both gigantic hit products that were at first derided as weird to be seen in and have ended up still being less popular than the iPhone, because nothing will ever be as big as the iPhone.
I strongly recommend visiting Herculaneum if you are ever able to. The colors on the walls and floors of the houses are unbelievable, it looks like they were lived in until a couple months ago.
I'm sure the teenager on a farm in North Dakota has a much more visceral relationship with his embodied reality than anyone in the upper middle-classes, for better or worse.
The teenager in North Dakota have $3,500 burning a hole in his pocket?
And the people comparing a watch or tiny headphones to giant ski goggles with a battery tied to them aren’t fooling anyone. It’s more akin to a Segway.
I mean, the comment was (like Ethan’s) about VR generally, rather than the Vision Pro in 2024. Whether it’s Apple or someone else, the cost of this is just going to go down like the costs of every other tech gadget over the last four decades.
I don't know what it is either but my wife and I are in the middle of a Rome (from HBO) rewatch right now.
On Vision Pro/VR, Marc Andreessen has a concept he calls “reality privilege”: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HOn9_StvCwM
Of course Ethan doesn’t want to escape reality, he lives in the East Bay, talks to interesting people/celebrities for a living, and semi-recently quit a job covering the most famous basketball players on the planet. If he were a teenager on a farm in North Dakota in February he might feel differently!
On Apple, I think a lot of these takes sound a lot like the ones about the Watch or AirPods. They’re both gigantic hit products that were at first derided as weird to be seen in and have ended up still being less popular than the iPhone, because nothing will ever be as big as the iPhone.
I strongly recommend visiting Herculaneum if you are ever able to. The colors on the walls and floors of the houses are unbelievable, it looks like they were lived in until a couple months ago.
I'm sure the teenager on a farm in North Dakota has a much more visceral relationship with his embodied reality than anyone in the upper middle-classes, for better or worse.
The teenager in North Dakota have $3,500 burning a hole in his pocket?
And the people comparing a watch or tiny headphones to giant ski goggles with a battery tied to them aren’t fooling anyone. It’s more akin to a Segway.
I mean, the comment was (like Ethan’s) about VR generally, rather than the Vision Pro in 2024. Whether it’s Apple or someone else, the cost of this is just going to go down like the costs of every other tech gadget over the last four decades.
How much worse would the NBA product have to get for Ethan to realize that Phil Jackson was right
A company that can produce the Mother Earth commercial/video is indicative of a company that’s just collecting rent at this point.