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Apple Readies Arsenal of Apps for New Headset, Aiming to Win Over Wary Users

20Apr

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Apple Readies Arsenal of Apps for New Headset, Aiming to Win Over Wary Users

[ad_1] Apple Inc. is racing to build a trove of software and services for its upcoming mixed-reality headset, seeking to win over potentially wary consumers with apps that use the device's novel 3D interface.The offerings will include gaming, fitness and collaboration tools, new versions of Apple's existing iPad features, and services for watching sports, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The roughly $3,000 headset is set to debut at an event in June, with the product going on sale months later. Apple's hardware products have long depended on having a robust assortment of software — epitomized by the Steve Jobs-era slogan, “There's an app for that.” But there may be even more pressure when it comes to the mixed-reality headset, a technology that will be unfamiliar to many...

Competing With Robots Is Making Work Worse

[ad_1] It's said that as work becomes increasingly automated thanks to artificial intelligence, our special human traits — empathy and humor, creativity and kindness — will become only more valuable.I wonder. What we've seen so far doesn't leave me optimistic. Instead of embracing what makes us different from machines, we humans often seem to be trying to imitate them. Too many of us skip lunch, eschew breaks and work more feverishly, as if we're just brains attached to rather inefficient, fleshy hardware — the bodies that (irritatingly) get sick, break down and require regular feeding and rest. Or we try to do too many things at once — texting while driving, emailing during meetings — as if we're a laptop that can run multiple programs instead of a human that can focus on only one thi...

John Stauffer, Top Apple Executive Who Pushed for Shift to Cloud, Leaves for Roblox

[ad_1] Apple's top executive is leaving the iPhone maker to join Roblox Corp., adding to a string of recent high-profile departures. Apple Inc.'s top executive in charge of media-related software technology is leaving the iPhone maker to join Roblox Corp., adding to a string of recent high-profile departures. John Stauffer is exiting Apple after about 24 years to become a vice president of engineering at the online gaming platform. He was one of a handful of company vice presidents to report directly to software engineering chief Craig Federighi. The departure adds to upheaval at Apple, with a series of vice presidents leaving in recent months. The company's head of procurement was ousted in September, while its chief privacy officer, head of industrial design, chief information ...