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Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Thoughts on Apple Vision Pro (2024)

Just had a demo of Apple Vision Pro at my local Apple store. Here are my thoughts.Pre-demo experienceThe pre-demo experience is very good. You make an appointment online, you show up late to the Apple store because the subway system in the Boston-area is always broken, and they check you in. Once you’re checked in, another Apple employee leads you to a desk where you sit down (big fan of being able to sit down at the Apple Store) and they ask you a series of questions, includ

Wither Android TV (2018)

This weekend I saw something truly ridiculous. An Android TV device running the latest version of Android TV apparently (it had an update a few weeks ago to 8.0) that completely refused to play YouTube videos.The device, Xiaomi Mibox, I picked up a couple of years ago and never used was gifted to a friend of mine and used somewhat regularly over the last 10 or so months. I don’t know the problem but I suspect the device doesn’t support the format (possibly DRM?) Google is putting on the