<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754239/mark-zuckerberg-meta-apple-vision-pro-headset</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xnyan</author><text>I worked at an electronics retailer in high school for a couple years, my job was to sell laptops. I sold a lot of laptops. Nerds like us who post comments on hacker news can have a hard time understanding the mind of the vast majority of regular people who simply could not care less about trackpad quality. It&amp;#x27;s just not a thing most people even think about.</text></item><item><author>wahahah</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t understand why nobody else has managed making decent touchpads. Is it not extremely high priority??</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>This sounded weak to me.&lt;p&gt;Apple is making an integrated headset: their own lenses, processor, ..., down to the operating system.&lt;p&gt;The Quest uses an Android based operating system and a lot of off the shelf components.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen this story before and it hasn&amp;#x27;t ended well for the folks in Mark&amp;#x27;s position.&lt;p&gt;A personal device like these headsets needs to be &lt;i&gt;delightful&lt;/i&gt;. It has to be responsive. It has to have the little touches. It&amp;#x27;s much more difficult to do that when you&amp;#x27;re constrained by off the shelf components.&lt;p&gt;Apple had the best touchpads for a decade because of those integrated properties, for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>I think the average person does care about and notice quality, its just a question of if they can afford it. When I look around the coworking space, its almost universally macbooks. And these aren&amp;#x27;t tech people mostly.&lt;p&gt;But the uni student with a budget that only buys half a macbook doesn&amp;#x27;t get to care about trackpad quality.&lt;p&gt;Normal people don&amp;#x27;t say things like &amp;quot;The trackpad is unresponsive and the wifi drivers unreliable&amp;quot; They say &amp;quot;I just don&amp;#x27;t like it&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It feels kinda crap&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754239/mark-zuckerberg-meta-apple-vision-pro-headset</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xnyan</author><text>I worked at an electronics retailer in high school for a couple years, my job was to sell laptops. I sold a lot of laptops. Nerds like us who post comments on hacker news can have a hard time understanding the mind of the vast majority of regular people who simply could not care less about trackpad quality. It&amp;#x27;s just not a thing most people even think about.</text></item><item><author>wahahah</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t understand why nobody else has managed making decent touchpads. Is it not extremely high priority??</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>This sounded weak to me.&lt;p&gt;Apple is making an integrated headset: their own lenses, processor, ..., down to the operating system.&lt;p&gt;The Quest uses an Android based operating system and a lot of off the shelf components.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen this story before and it hasn&amp;#x27;t ended well for the folks in Mark&amp;#x27;s position.&lt;p&gt;A personal device like these headsets needs to be &lt;i&gt;delightful&lt;/i&gt;. It has to be responsive. It has to have the little touches. It&amp;#x27;s much more difficult to do that when you&amp;#x27;re constrained by off the shelf components.&lt;p&gt;Apple had the best touchpads for a decade because of those integrated properties, for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagmx</author><text>If I may, I’d make a slight modification to your statement.&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of people don’t care about trackpad quality when it comes to shopping.&lt;p&gt;They do care when they *use* it but they either take it for granted when it works well, or it’s too small a papercut to trade in their device and buy&amp;#x2F;research a new one.&lt;p&gt;but it all combines together to make a smoother experience when using it, and it can convert people as a part of a whole.</text></comment>