- Apple cropped photos of the Vision Pro headset to remove the battery pack, making it look less cumbersome.
- Journalists were not allowed to take photos or videos of the Vision Pro’s hardware during a press briefing.
- Apple sees the cord from the battery pack as getting in the way of making the headset more mobile.
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Fixed that for you. I mean, that’s literally all advertising is: rebranded corporate propaganda. Just because it’s called an “advertisement” doesn’t make it not “propaganda.”
I don’t think all adverts are propaganda. For instance, someone in my village has a sign outside their house that says “EGGS FOR SALE” - that is 100% an advert, but I’m not sure you could convince me it’s propaganda.
I agree that there’s a lot of overlap between advertising and corporate propaganda, but they’re definitely different things.
When they get down to a single egg and don’t take down the sign, it becomes propaganda.
Still, we have guidelines on false advertising for a reason. Some companies “advertise” their products in a more truthful and good faith way, and others don’t. There’s value in calling specific incidents out
This isn’t to bash Apple or defend one of its competitors, I just think it’s unproductive when we have this set of comments:
- “x did something bad”
- “yea well they all do it”
Dude we’re in a class war and our class is losing. Can you name a single major corporation who has the future of working class genuinely in mind? We literally just went through “inflation” half of which was just a corporate money grab.
I don’t think the people that they are marketing to (people who buy Apple products) care. They will buy it just because it’s Apple.
There are many, okay dozens, of us that buy what best suits our needs. Mac laptop for work management and interface, Android phone for self, Windows PC for son, and a few linux boxes for number crunching.
Is the Mac laptop so you aren’t tempted to touch it unless you have to work?
Well made, dependable, fast, and similar enough to linux that I can do a lot of cross platform development between the two without much issue.
I have multiple co-workers who daily drive linux distros as virtual machines on a macbook.
The one i am most friends with already had a perfectly good desktop that he now keep around so his children can game.
Or actually job can only be done from a work approved windows dell but we have opportunities and ambitions to learn more advanced skills beyond our current scope.
Of course you can’t see it, if it’s in their back pocket they’re going to be sitting on it. Is the photographer supposed to get up their ass to get the battery pack in frame. If you uncropped the photo you would just see more of their bodies and that’s completely unnecessary for something you wear on your face. Don’t get me wrong I think everything about the Vision Pro is nonsense but this article is some clickbatey horse-shit.
They showed and talked about it in the keynote too. It’s not like this is some last minute surprise.
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Pointless article when the battery pack is in the main picture they’ve included! Bizarre stuff.
This is another “use a black wallpaper to hide the notch” situation. Kinda funny, but ultimately meaningless.
