According to the calendar on the wall ( disclosure : the Macalope gave up wall calendar whenMulder and Scullywent off the air ) , we are record prime hearsay season again as the holiday have passed , Apple is making plans for 2023 and lips they are a - flappin ’ . What ’s the hullaballoo this year ? trust you like flog things to your face .
Yes , everyone is talking about theupcoming Apple AR headset , which will definitely be the thing Apple feature for its out - of - tactual sensation holiday endowment - giving guide 11 months from now . “ This year , get your have sex ones a machine that costs several thousand dollars . ” Only the car companies have a more inflated sentience of how much the Macalope is willing to spend on his bonk ones .
If you depend at thecurrent rumors about the headset , you might wonder why you ’d desire one at all . An external show that read your facial expression ? A battery pack you outwear on your belt ? It ’s true the Macalope does n’t keep up on thelatest style trends(he ’s been wear the same suit for 10 eld ) but that does n’t sound in particular Apple - y. for sure this is yet another dud of an Apple product just like the Watch .
Er . Well .
That ’s just the thing , though . lusterless rumors of an upcoming Apple production are not at all unusual . Sixteen years ago in the run - up to the annunciation of the iPhone , people were asking what Apple could possibly fetch to the humans of smartphones . “ The BlackBerry Pearlis the height of smartphone design ! ” they shout . “ This is a Wendy ’s ! ” we shout back .
Heck , evenafterApple products are announced we were told they ’re not that not bad , have less space than a Nomad , and besides , some third - rate player you ’ve never heard of already has turbo lasers .
Who be intimate , maybe the unannounced $ 3,000 whang - pack - power Apple headset will be really cool . It does n’t seem cool yet , but neither did so many other Apple products before we had them . This is not to say , though , that it not looking all that inspirational before its release mean it ’s going to be a hit , either . As the Macalope ’s fiscal adviser always tells him , past winner is not an indicator of future carrying into action .
Then the Macalope looks at his portfolio and says “ What past achiever ? ” and he and his financial advisor have a good laugh .
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This week ’s rumors are about when we might see it . Mark Gurman saysApple will announce the product at a spring event , before WWDC , and then ship it later in the dusk , giving us enough time to forage through our lounge for $ 3,000 . Again , the pricing rumor may be incorrect , too , though . Apple is pretty notable for not being shy about pricing things with an eye toward profit rather than book and – just taking a flying feeling at their cash reserve here and , yup – it seems to cultivate out pretty well for the party . Still , in the lead - up to its launch , the iPad was widely rumored to be $ 1,000 and it ended up get down at half that .
Not that $ 1,500 is throwing around money for this mythic beast , either .
John Gruber asksa expert question which is if it ’s not for games , whichThe Informationimplies , what ’s it for ? No one want to spend this much for the rumored feature : videoconferencing , map , and educational content . Not to put too all right a point on it , but have you see around at the world ? Does it count like the form of plaza that results from a public that throw off three grand on educational devices ? Sadly , it does not .
The Macalope surely hopes it ’s in effect because ( also harmonise to Gurman ) the company is putting other devices on the back burner for it .
… Apple roped in resourcefulness from several ironware and software package engineering departments . That ’s hampered other projects , some of which were already suffering from their own delays and budget cuts stemming from the economic slowdown .
go for you were n’t bet for exciting AirPods , Watches or iPad updates this year .
Certainly , Apple knows its byplay better than a animated cartoon human / data processor loanblend in a lawsuit or , really , almost any other pundit as well . It only seems perplexing because we ’re on the exterior looking in .
And without AR trash to improve our visual sense .
babble out about your Catch-22s .
