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$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device

appleinsider.com $300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device

Apple is selling developers a $300 USB-C dongle to connect the Apple Vision Pro to a Mac, but in this incarnation, it turns out to be no faster than Wi-Fi.

$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device::Apple is selling developers a $300 USB-C dongle to connect the Apple Vision Pro to a Mac, but in this incarnation, it turns out to be no faster than Wi-Fi.

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So a supposedly cutting edge $3500 device plus an additional $300 dongle gets a wired connection speed from the year 2000. USB 2 is 24 years old

Welcome to the future folks.

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- I'd pay double that for an apple Istrap-on™!
  
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  You mean the bill?
  
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  Now with direct connection to all of your favourite apps!
  
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  Vision Cum Pro
  
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- Nah but it's white and designed very sleek so it must be worth it
  
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- I knew, that's why I bought so many apple stocks.
  
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It's hilarious how Apple still insists on making all their mobile devices USB 2. Have they not cracked the code for USB 3 after 11 years?

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- USB 4 was designed 4 years ago ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4 ) and they still using usb 2? TIL
  
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  USB 2, 3 and 4 are not direct new versions depracating previous ones. Those are tiers, versions are reprecented after the point, like 3.1 is directly better than 3.0 .
  
  USB 2 is not something that shouldn't be used because USB 3 exists. It is just simpler, just four pins, two for power and two for data, meanwhile USB 4 requires much more complex stuff. Just like new Intel i7 processor does not invalidate new Intel i3.
  
  Still on a high-end phone 2.0 is bad, like putting i3 on high-end laptop.
  
  41
- The iPhone 15 pro is usb 3 and I believe current gen iPads are either usb 3 or thunderbolt
  
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  The iPhone 15 pro is usb 3
  
  After the EU forced them to adopt USB C
  
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  Yes only the very top model. But get this. They shipped it with a USB 2.0 only cable. You know, just to stick the knife in a little bit anyway. Those guys sure know how to make a joke.
  
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$300 for a strap from Apple? That's cheap compared to the $999 wheels. People are gonna gobble those up lickety split.

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- You’re not the target for either; they’re meant to milk business customers who don’t care about price.
  
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  I am fully aware my sad, poor, sorry ass is not the target market for pretty much any Apple product.
  
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They’ve gotta be trolling at this point.

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- Just extracting wealth from the ~~cult~~ fans and tech illiterate. And they will keep pushing the insane prices, until people stop paying (sounds familiar). I wish they'd use their absurd profits to actually bring to market something truly spectacular. Dyson makes more daring and innovative products, funded by vacuums, heh.
  
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  dyson is in every sense the apple of vacuums lol
  
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  It's Closed Source. No one truly knows how it really works. That means you were right to begin with. It's a gorramn cult.
  
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- 19
  
  "think again!"
  
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  Buy different, oculus
  
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If it’s just USB 2, wouldn’t that be slower than WiFi in a lot of cases? Maybe not in a crowded area (like offices, which is probably a representative environment for a lot of developers purchasing this), but if you’re in short range of an AP you should be able to get over 500Mbps. Apple also likes to use WiFi direct, such as in airdrop, which can cut the AP out for shorter distance and therefore faster speeds.

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- It's also Wifi AX which I've hit 600mbps with my phone.
  
  Buttttt it's wifi AX for 5ghz only.
  
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Aren't they really paying for a dev license and support? Can they develop for the apple vision without the device?

edit

Nevermind. The article suggests the strap is a development "accelerator". :/

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- Yep thats right, you can totally do photoshopping or coding or work on spreadsheets with this device, it totally isnt an extremely overpriced demo of what could maybe someday kind of almost make sense for anything beyond extremely casual computer usage.
  
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So what are the Apple engineers using?

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- Finding new and innovative ways to charge $300 for a USB cable.
  
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So when should I expect the collaboration between Elon and apple? so I can get an eye phone like Futurama.

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- Sooner than we think, which is scary, imagine suddenly catching cyberpsychosis because you didn't paid your monthly kiroshi optics subscription fee and constant ads even if you paid
  
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  Ransomware on your life
  
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  Yes my choom, these gonkbrains are gonna get fried.
  
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Typical Apple....🤦

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The future is here, and it's ridiculously SLOW and ridiculously EXPENSIVE.

I'd rather stay in 2012. The switch to Lightning is basically all I can handle when it comes to controversy.

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