The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC(scobleizer.blog) |
The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC(scobleizer.blog) |
From the evidence, it was the lawyer who was being punished
Neat piece, and interesting to start to see some numbers attached to Apple working on it. The disruption that wearable displays will bring has been so obvious for 5-10 years now that I've been assuming that of course Apple and other players just have to see it coming, but established businesses have managed to be caught off guard plenty of times before or refused to kill their existing cash cows to go after the future. Wearable displays will ultimately mean the end of the iPhone (and other form factors) in the same way the iPhone ended the iPod, and Apple in particular is heavily dependent on the stuff that will become obsolete. They're in principle in a good place to navigate it, but the massive investment is certainly necessary and justified anyway.
It is a bit worrying though that the vertical integration might get even worse. There is no inherent reason there shouldn't be industry standards for at least some lowest common denominator of generalized screen replacement, but so far we're seeing a lot of silos which stinks. It's sobering how much of the openness and standardization of the PC industry essentially came down to luck and certain moments in history. It'll take real work to bring that through this next shift.
I 'm pretty sure they can do that without glasses too.
Of all those speculative products, none of them can be carried around for social signaling so i dunno.