Thats a very naive understanding of success. Youre telling the soap maker on etsy doesnt have a successful product because she doesnt sell a million units a day? Youre telling me that Rolls Royce Aerospace isn't successful because they only 100 aircraft engines a year?
That soap maker didn't spend $10B in R&D figuring out how to make the soap. Your retort makes zero sense. Apple's worst products sold tens of millions of units in their first couple of years while Vision Pro sold about 370K units in year 1 and well into year 2 still has plenty of inventory sitting on warehouse shelves to cover all of 2025 demand. It literally bombed in the market. It's an abject failure of a product that couldn't be called a success in any way beyond a great prototype and some excellent demoware. It's a flop and a joke.
It didn’t bomb in the market. It was priced for supply constraints. They basically tied Meta on all headset revenue in its first year (450k units and $1.4 billion). visionOS is a triumph and foundation for the next decade of computing, and the entire product line of Apple is adapting to its look and feel. The entire XR / VR industry is changing their strategy to respond to visionOS , particularly Meta horizon OS which has incorporated numerous improvements that were directly inspired by Apple. And plenty of Apple products sold a lot less than 10 million annually to this day.
Applying this to apple is beyond comprehension... What do you mean by using such a term? Apple is likely the richest single entity to have every existed, outside of perhaps the US economy as a whole. This single vr product line made apple more money than either of us will make in a lifetime. So hopefully i'm mistaken and you can educate me as to what the word means.
But hopefully you meant "objective". Which is still stupid, but is at least a familiar and manageable form of stupidity.
Same reaction. The vision pro is clearly a great headset. The biggest thing restraining it has been the ability to program for it. If Apple will not let 3rd party devs access the primitives needed to create game engine support then Apple needs to lend that support. Here they are
The biggest thing restraining it is the ergonomics and form factor. No one wants face PCs. Imagine how women, who are half the population, and who spend 0.5T dollars a year on hair and makeup products, are going to deal with smashing a 1.5 pound PC into their faces and held in place with straps around their head and hair. SJ would have smothered that thing in the crib the second his team had no answer for how a product that excludes half the population at the get go could possibly be successful. Can you imagine iPhone shipping in a form factor that required women redo their hair and makeup after every single use?
1. That's an anecdote, but you know that. I'm going to guess that the wife of someone on this forum is nerdier than average.
2. Even if you WANT a face PC, that doesn't mean you'll love using it and keep it once the honeymoon wears off. Supposedly over half of VR headset owners use their device less than once per month.
I used to want a headset. I bought a Valve Index. Everything about the device was fantastic. The games were fantastic. But then I sold it about 6 months later because, meh, it's just not something that was practical and usable frequently enough.
So right now we have basically ideal headsets Meta Quest 3/3S which are excellent, dirt cheap, lightweight, and have a large software catalog but they still struggle to retain users and grow the market.
The Vision Pro hasn't even resolved motion sickness for 100% of users. You can love it and still be forced to discontinue use one by something you can't control about your own body.
> So right now we have basically ideal headsets Meta Quest 3/3S
Cmon, it has shitty hardware and shittier software. The only thing going for it is price and a game catalogue they've basically purchased. Which is admittedly a formidable combo, but it's clear nobody wants it. There's no leverage to make them actually cater to the consumer.
I would say cost is the hardest part to swallow—hence why I think it's ludicrous to even vaguely suggest it's aimed at general consumers. But i suppose it's difficult to tease these things apart.
That concept has been replaced for years at this point with Zero Trust. A greenfield project intended to the "The Protocol" tm should never have been made with such a broken threat model.
This is such a boring perspective. Zero Trust is the spherical cow of trust models. When you do a DHCP request to your local DHCP server, you're trusting that local relationship implicitly. When you PPPoE (or whatever) to your ISP, you're trusting that client/server relationship. When you DNS lookup www.google.com you're trusting the global DNS infrastructure. It goes on and on and on. Every communication from client to server necessarily requires some amount of trust by the client in the server by definition.
No i think it's fairly well guaranteed that devices are encrypting and then submitting prompts. Differential encryption allows them to do honest-to-god work without decrypting the data. The "fragments" the polled devices are sent are probably some sub-sequence of the differentially encrypted prompt.
I'm sorry is the price of housing decreasing or increasing? You have to have a dual income household to afford a mortgage. You're really going to shit on young people because they dont have two incomes?
No I’m shitting on people who buy short term pleasure then bitch about long term poverty.
I’m a frugal person. Seriously. I have so much money I can do literally anything I want. I live in this insane palace that is the most beautiful piece of property you have ever seen. And I still pinch pennies, buy in bulk, have a deep freezer, drive used cars. It doesn’t make logical sense but I just have programmed in me to be efficient.
And I look around me and see endless complaints and no one is efficient. People waste so much money on bullshit. It has worn me down to be quite cynical and skeptical
At the risk of it sounding like i support theft; the automobile, you know, enabled the likes of Bonnie and Clyde and that whole era of lawlessness. Until the fbi and crossing county lines became a thing.
So im not sure id give up the sum total progress of the automobile just because the first decade was a bad one
Aside from the fact that gfx906 is one of the blessed architecture mentioned (so why would it not work). Like how do you look at your specific instance and then turn around and say "All of you are lying, it works perfectly." How do you square that circle in your head
No I was just a bit thrown by the "sometimes". I thought they were referring to a reliability issue. I am aware of the limited card support with ROCm and I complained about this elsewhere in the thread too.
Also I didn't accuse anyone of lying. No need to be so confrontational. And my remark to the original poster at the top was from before they clarified their post.
I just don't really see what AMD can do to make ollama work better other than porting ROCm to all their cards which is definitely something they should do.
And no I'm not an AMD fanboi. I have no loyalty to anyone, any company or any country.
Read the whole blog, and it directs you further for more details. But this blog does tell you they're moving to oidc. That means you will get all the non password flows oidc supports.
This is a reading comprehension problem more than a blog writing problem
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