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Right that’s why I mean that what does the average Facebook employee do when they get in in the morning?

No AI could replicate zuckerberg’s robotic nature.

Even if the whole idea of having employees use AI as much as possible wasn’t stupid in and of itself tracking token usage is a terrible way to do it.

It’s like trying to work out how much work has been done in a warehouse by tracking employees calories, sure the people who’ve burnt more calories have probably done more work but it’s not one to one equivalency.

I can mess around with an AI for an hour using thousands of tokens up and produce nothing tangible at the end. If I’m going back and forth trying to get an AI to write a piece of code and that takes me an hour to get a result that I could have written myself in 15 minutes, then I’m not being productive. But I sure as hell used up a lot of tokens.

I don’t understand how Facebook has so many employees. What do they do, what does their standard day look like.

If I don’t show up to my job there’s loads of tasks that wouldn’t get done but Facebook is a website, it can’t honestly need so many employees especially when they never really change anything.

That’s what I mean though everyone understands VR to be a gaming peripheral first and foremost. Apple then came in to that market with a non-gaming focused VR headset (sorry AR special computing headset) with no obvious practical application.

What am I supposed to do with it it can’t game but it also can’t do anything else. I literally can’t even watch YouTube videos on it. I can watch VR videos on my phone with a piece of cardboard yet this several thousand dollar device from Apple can’t do that. So why would I buy it?

I’ve only used it in passing when somebody’s handed me their phone to put my number in or something but I think the big objection is not what it looks like but it’s usability or lack thereof.

Why would I want my user interface to be transparent, isn’t the whole point that I need to be able to see the interface surely I want it to stand out from the background.

The other complaint is that the analogy doesn’t really work, glass isn’t a liquid substance, so why does it make sense for the sliding toggle to morph?

People say the hardware is top-notch but every single person I know who has an iPhone has a cracked iPhone.

Meanwhile here I am with a supposedly very delicate folding phone and no case, and it’s absolutely fine. I’m not careful with it either I’ve dropped it loads of times. I have no idea why Apple insist on making their screens out of sugar glass.

Remember iTunes, if I had gone out with the intention of making an inferior product I don’t think I would have succeeded. I cannot believe that they were prepared to slap their name onto that utterly garbage piece of software and then proceed to never fix it.

The vision pro utterly baffles me. When they were making the product did no one ever raise the question of what exactly the product they were making was for, because every single reviewer said exactly the same thing, which was that it was an incredibly advanced product, with zero utility.

Every decision made about the vision pro was idiotic. They didn’t even have a developer kit so you had to buy the full price to device and you didn’t even get developer options for your trouble so no one developed for it. It wasn’t available outside of North America, it didn’t have a controller so interactions were clunky, it didn’t support gaming which is basically what a VR headset is for, it would only interact with an MacBook making the effective price even higher, it was uncomfortable, the battery was a randomly a separate part to absolutely zero customer benefit as it wasn’t hot swappable, after the big swanky launch event Apple proceeded to completely forget about it and didn’t release any updates, and as you say they never made an affordable version.

Literally every other VR headset was a superior option, and apples attempt to rebrand the product as “spatial computing” just confused everyone.