Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird | iFixit News
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Welcome to the Vision Pro, Apple’s most complex piece of hardware yet. So complicated that we’ll need more than one teardown to tackle it. First up: Those creepy eyes.
  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    It’s such an Apple thing to put a giant glass panel on the front of a VR headset, which you’re likely to sometimes bump into things when in immersive mode, and then charge $800 for a replacement.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    So, the electronic parts appear to be 100% non-user-repairable. I’m sure Apple’s main motivation was to reduce the size and weight, but this is still a $3500 disposable item. Has anyone identified the “killer app” yet?

    • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      The main motivation isn’t to reduce size and weight. The main motivation is to squeeze the customers for the last ounce of revenue.

      The claim that reparability has to be sacrificed for reduction in size and weight is a lie that they reinforced through repetition. They can achieve it without that sacrifice if they wanted to - but it won’t help their perpetual double digit profit growth target.

      • sanzky@beehaw.org
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        7 months ago

        Im sorry but this is not correct. Most design decisions are a trade-off, you gain something but you loose something. You might argue that reparability should have a higher priority than size, but saying that you can be more repairable without gaining any size is nonsense.

        • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          7 months ago

          That’s completely false. There’s no technical basis for this assertion or tradeoff. On the other hand, there are plenty of device manufacturers that prioritize reparability without sacrificing anything.

          The only argument is that Apple and Apple fanbois repeat these claims. But they have vested monetary interests in such a design. That’s why it’s a lie. Agreeing to it just lends credence to Apple abusing their market position. So no.

          • beefcat@beehaw.org
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            7 months ago

            There absolutely is.

            SODIMM slots disappeared from laptops because of technical limitations, and it took an entirely new design to eventually bring socketable RAM back to laptops. And those new sockets still take up more space than just soldering the RAM in place.

            Engineering is all about tradeoffs.