Marco Arment

No one is going to want to sacrifice their phone battery life. That's what I was saying with the Orion glasses where it's a separate puck or whatever. It'll be that way for a while yet because what we ask these glasses to do in the sort of maximal Orion or Vision Pro type feature set,

No one is going to want to sacrifice their phone battery life. That's what I was saying with the Orion glasses where it's a separate puck or whatever. It'll be that way for a while yet because what we ask these glasses to do in the sort of maximal Orion or Vision Pro type feature set,

is just too computationally expensive it will burn your phone's battery and no one wants to spend their battery on that but if it's just watching video i think people would people for first of all we know people will use their phone battery for that because they literally watch movies on their phone on the plane and that's lighting up the screen and sometimes they're using the phone speaker which blows my mind because you cannot hear anything on planes but anyway people do it you hear them on the on the the subway they've got their phones they're blaring audio they're watching video it's rude but it also kills their phone battery but they do it that's what they want to use their phone battery for

is just too computationally expensive it will burn your phone's battery and no one wants to spend their battery on that but if it's just watching video i think people would people for first of all we know people will use their phone battery for that because they literally watch movies on their phone on the plane and that's lighting up the screen and sometimes they're using the phone speaker which blows my mind because you cannot hear anything on planes but anyway people do it you hear them on the on the the subway they've got their phones they're blaring audio they're watching video it's rude but it also kills their phone battery but they do it that's what they want to use their phone battery for

But yeah, a glasses device that uses the phone for compute, I think the correct balance would be, hey, phone, all you got to do is networking and video decoding, and then you just project to me.

But yeah, a glasses device that uses the phone for compute, I think the correct balance would be, hey, phone, all you got to do is networking and video decoding, and then you just project to me.

That's like a phone accessory. That's like an attachment to your phone sales. And by the way, with the Apple Watch SE example, that's kind of an example of what I imagine Apple's currently planning to do with the big expensive Vision Pro, because today's Apple Watch SE is massively more powerful than the original Apple Watch, right?

That's like a phone accessory. That's like an attachment to your phone sales. And by the way, with the Apple Watch SE example, that's kind of an example of what I imagine Apple's currently planning to do with the big expensive Vision Pro, because today's Apple Watch SE is massively more powerful than the original Apple Watch, right?

What they basically did was, let's just keep making Apple Watches until we can make a cheap one that is actually way more powerful than the first one that we rolled out, just due to the advance of technology that Screens are better. The battery life is better. It's thinner. It's lighter. Like they just waited many, many, many years.

What they basically did was, let's just keep making Apple Watches until we can make a cheap one that is actually way more powerful than the first one that we rolled out, just due to the advance of technology that Screens are better. The battery life is better. It's thinner. It's lighter. Like they just waited many, many, many years.

And lo and behold, we have an Apple Watch SE that didn't have to go like the ex-real rumored route of saying like, we got to make a cut down version of it. It's got to compete with Fitbit. They're like, no, we'll just keep making Apple Watches. We'll just keep plugging away. An Apple Watch is an Apple Watch. There's no platform bifurcation. There's no limited version. It does certain stuff.

And lo and behold, we have an Apple Watch SE that didn't have to go like the ex-real rumored route of saying like, we got to make a cut down version of it. It's got to compete with Fitbit. They're like, no, we'll just keep making Apple Watches. We'll just keep plugging away. An Apple Watch is an Apple Watch. There's no platform bifurcation. There's no limited version. It does certain stuff.

We'll just patiently sit here because, as Marco pointed out, the first one wasn't, with the exception of the gold one, thousands of dollars, right? The first one was in the ballpark price-wise. And they just did like they did with the iPhone. Mature the product. Start diversifying the product line. Eventually, you can make a pretty good Apple Watch for cheaper and just keep iterating on that.

We'll just patiently sit here because, as Marco pointed out, the first one wasn't, with the exception of the gold one, thousands of dollars, right? The first one was in the ballpark price-wise. And they just did like they did with the iPhone. Mature the product. Start diversifying the product line. Eventually, you can make a pretty good Apple Watch for cheaper and just keep iterating on that.

And lo and behold, the Apple Watch SE now would have been amazing if you had taken it back in time to the original Apple Watch introduction. I think Apple would love to do that with Vision Pro. They're just... many years away from getting there. But in the meantime, the Vision Pro is so much farther away from the bullseye than the Apple Watch was, I can imagine them considering things like this.

And lo and behold, the Apple Watch SE now would have been amazing if you had taken it back in time to the original Apple Watch introduction. I think Apple would love to do that with Vision Pro. They're just... many years away from getting there. But in the meantime, the Vision Pro is so much farther away from the bullseye than the Apple Watch was, I can imagine them considering things like this.

Again, this is just a vague rumor that Apple is seriously considering it. And Apple was so slowly, even if they did roll it out, I'm not sure how they'd do it. But when I pictured it in my head, I pictured it as an iPhone accessory That is essentially a monitor that only has enough smarts to communicate with a thing that is rendering the video. And that's basically all I use it for.

Again, this is just a vague rumor that Apple is seriously considering it. And Apple was so slowly, even if they did roll it out, I'm not sure how they'd do it. But when I pictured it in my head, I pictured it as an iPhone accessory That is essentially a monitor that only has enough smarts to communicate with a thing that is rendering the video. And that's basically all I use it for.

And for that purpose, Casey, when you're like, oh, I want to play and I want to take out my Vision Pro from my giant backpack and put it on and be that guy. Even if the video quality, the image quality wasn't quite as good as a Vision Pro.

And for that purpose, Casey, when you're like, oh, I want to play and I want to take out my Vision Pro from my giant backpack and put it on and be that guy. Even if the video quality, the image quality wasn't quite as good as a Vision Pro.