So WWDC 2023 keynote just wrapped up, and I gotta say. Meh. Boo. Boring.

They announced a new product (Apple Vision Pro, I think it’s called) targeting the ruling class demographic that will allow them to enter even deeper in to their transhumanist fantasy of ruling everything. Good riddance. Maybe they’ll stop picking on the rest of us.

To reiterate my previous post: this is not the direction that tech should be going. Creating a bunch of separate silos that require buying ever multiplying product lines is stupid and wasteful. It doesn’t put the power in the hands of the user, and it doesn’t put capabilities in the places where they are needed.

I suggest a better vision for the future of tech: one that follows a strong decoupling impulse at as many levels of the tech stack as possible. From a hardware product point of view, this looks like decoupling of the computing modules, the software that runs it, where data is stored, and the ways data is displayed. That would look like having a separate compute module, that can easily be moved to either a phone, a desktop, a tablet/laptop, or even an AR experience. One compute module, any data source, many experiences. This kind of modular approach puts the maximum amount of power in the hands of the end user. All experiences must have full access to to the abilities of the compute module, and not be crippled by the needs of the manufacturer.

Apple is doing the opposite of this by continuing to couple all parts of the computing stack into individual siloed products that have to communicate with each other through complicated schemes (which are expensive to implement and get access to). This is pure stupidity in my book.