Eggyhead

Oh, we’ve all been aware of that for quite some time now.

There's a calibration process that takes place after a set of Zeiss lenses are inserted and the code scanned. My concern is that this calibration process will likely not be triggered for any insert not made by Zeiss. It may not be a hard software lock, but it would suck if your AVP just didn't work as well just because you didn't buy from the people Apple wants you to buy from, even though it probably could anyway.

As someone who's been using apple devices for a long time, this pretty much summarizes one of my biggest concerns with the APV. The other being expensive, proprietary, and software-locked lens inserts. (Basically creating a proprietary tax for people with poor vision who want to be involved with spacial computing, antithetical to Apple's accessibility efforts.)

AI surveillance company

I already don't like those words by themselves...

Can I just get a cheaper option that has no software whatsoever?

I haven't lived in America for over a decade and I'm still reluctant to go into a hospital for any reason for fear of costs alone.

whaaat? Robots don't just have their own inherent sense of morality for whatever reason???

Maybe, just maybe, if the government hadn’t been doing something worth whistleblowing about, those people would still be alive.

I'm more inclined to believe both parties are the bad guys here. The only good guys are the musicians stuck in the middle.

Downvotes don’t bother me. Both figuratively and literally, considering they don’t seem to be federating.

If you think you know how bad one teen can get, try dealing with classrooms of them, for over a decade.

At that age in their development, their brains start sloughing off cells that it thinks it doesn’t need, so they go out and do stupid shit no matter what you try to tell them. They’re basically learning more from serious fuckups than anything else because those are the lessons that stick.

At that age you’ve just got to compromise. In this case, I’d say tell them they can get whatever phone they want as long as they pay for it themselves and hear out your concerns. If you’re the one buying, tell them tough shit, they get what they get, or make them write you an essay of why they think they deserve a one kind of phone over the one you think they ought to have. It gives you an opportunity to hear them out completely, call out bs, share some personal insight, or maybe even reconsider your own stance on the issue.

Jfc. The snowflakes here.

Yes, fuck Apple, sure. But tell your kids they don’t have to care. In the end it’s just a computer and any relationship that actually matters won’t teeter on which fucking app you use. If your kid is getting ostracized from a group ONLY because they don’t use iMessage, tell them they’ve found the wrong group and they’re worth way more than that. Real friends are more than willing to take a 2-second step and install a second chat app to accommodate friends who cannot use iMessage. There are more androids out there than iPhones anyway.

Corporations are not your friends. They will not take responsibility for your kids unless they’re forced or they decide they want to get paid for doing it. Your kids deserve to know how to navigate society despite this. Teach them.