People are comparing it to Pokemon because they wanted the company to expand the world to have games in different genres utilize the monster capturing and breeding mechanics. That's it.
When I signed up for an in store demo, it included questions about vision. It sounds like they might be able to have matching optics available for you to actually try out for yourself if you have access to an Apple Store.
I think it's a mixed bag. Some of the friction is just because people are used to the stupid ways Windows does stuff.
But there's other stuff like needing to manually change some downloaded files to have permission to execute that it makes sense for casual users to find confusing.
All of it. He was never an advocate for software being free or against the right of companies to monetize their API in any context. He was against a specific company using "monetizing" their API as an excuse to make it impossible for third party apps to exist.
His position has not changed in any way and there is nothing that is in any way consistent between any of his statements or behavior.
You may wish to pick a distro that makes a point of nvidia compatibility.
I use nobara, who have a few options in the welcome script specifically to improve compatibility with nvidia. I've specifically heard popOS mentioned several times as one people have liked with nvidia as well.
Some only ship with or distribute alternative open source nvidia drivers that tank performance.
I haven't looked, but I wonder if you'll be able to connect a Bluetooth mouse to it. All the cursor support they added to the iPad is really nice, and being able to pop up a Remote Desktop app in a window while doing whatever other shit would be really cool, too.
He did plenty of monetization on the app, and made good money with it with volume that doesn't exist on Vision Pro. He never said anything implying apps don't deserve to be paid for.
In literally every discussion he ever had about the API pricing change, he said that he entirely supported their need to monetize the API. His issues were not any sort of issue with the premise of the API changes. It was the specific nature of the API changes very obviously being for the sole purpose of making using the API to make an app impossible, when the app ecosystem was the entire reason Reddit was successful to begin with.
I really want to build out apps for it. I'm also really into actually having sufficient resolution to have virtual displays that can actually have a meaningful amount of text on them without being a trainwreck.
He never said anything that could possibly be interpreted as being against paying for access to content, or as a subscription to an ongoing service being in any way inappropriate.
It's not Pokemon. It's not trying to be Pokemon.
People are comparing it to Pokemon because they wanted the company to expand the world to have games in different genres utilize the monster capturing and breeding mechanics. That's it.