Vision Pro Reviews: The good, the bad and the UGLY… (CultCast #632)

This week we’re talking Vision Pro reviews, the good, the bad and the ugly! Also, we have some details on iOS 17.4 — and did Vanity Fair leak an image of the new iPad?

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This week’s stories:

Vision Pro review roundup: ‘Magic’ and ‘a revolution,’ but definitely unfinished

• The first reviews of Apple’s Vision Pro gush compliments on the augmented-reality headset, with one reviewer calling it “mind-blowing” and another “stunning.”
• However, there’s also plenty of criticism for the high price, weight and slim collection of software available when the product launches later this week.
• Vanity Fair: Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro
• Apple Vision Pro’s biggest problem: It’s highly addictive!

Win a rugged and waterproof Apple Watch sport band [Cult of Mac giveaway]

• You might win a super-cool and rugged new Lululook Waterproof FKM Sport Band. We’re giving away one orange band and one blue one, and anyone in the world can enter to win.

iOS 17.4 beta 1: All the new features and changes

• The first beta of iOS 17.4 is here, and it packs several big changes. The beta build arrived just days after Apple released iOS 17.3 to the public.
• Auto-generated transcripts coming to Apple Podcasts

Is this an unannounced iPad in a press photo?

• Some people think the first picture of Tim Cook wearing a Vision Pro also has a surprise: an iPad that Apple hasn’t released yet. But no. The tablet looks a bit odd, but that’s not because it’s a future one with a new design.
• Post by John Siracusa
• Edited image by David Schaub