WWDC 2023 — June 5 | Apple

For reference, this is the original context: The title-linked reddit thread, in turn links to the following YT video, which is of the WWDC23 Apple Keynote speech of June 5. See below the link for a text transcript of that relevant excerpt. [this video] "Finally, the 32-core Neural Engine is 40% faster [than M1 Ultra]. And M2 Ultra can support an enormous 192GB of unified memory, which is 50% more than M1 Ultra - enabling it to do thing other chips just can't do. For example, in a single system, it can train massive ML workloads, like large transformer models, that the most powerful discrete GPU can't even process, because it runs out of memory."

I don't understand why there is no AR or VR killer app for this thing. Their sales pitch was "it makes it amazing to read articles in safari"? [this video] $3500 to... look at a floating web browser? Surely they can come up with something. Give me UV/IR vision, let me see the pipes under the ground, show me how to assemble the furniture I'm looking at, give me a template to paint by numbers of a real canvas -- why is this basic concept of "a $3500 novelty device should enable me to do something _new_" so hard for a 3 trillion dollar company to grasp? Are they just hoping someone comes up with all the above in the next 6 months? If they did, would anyone care? $3500 is relatively a lot of money if you're already giving them iPhone and Macbook money. The supermajority of the world doesn't make more then 60k a year, pre-tax. Actually, the supermajority makes vastly less than that. I guess I'll wait and watch and see if they prove me wrong, but I suspect no matter how good it is, it'll flop.