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Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense

Posted by timothy on from the have-it-wrapped-and-delivered dept.

The reports that Apple was to buy Israeli 3-D sensor maker PrimeSense have turned out to be correct; the BBC reports that Apple has confirmed the purchase, though it is mum both about the price it paid and about where 3D sensors are likely to show up first in the Apple lineup. Also at the Register and Apple Insider, among others.

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  1. Yay, more half baked products! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just for once...

    I'd like to hear about Apple doubling down on their internal quality control (which barely exists anymore) and spending some money on solidifying their existing products and IP. Get rid of that fucking yearly release schedule that forces their teams to work on "new" half baked features for the next release (rather then fixing all the bugs in the current release), and actually start releasing STABLE platforms that people can rely on again. Make sure that any feature you do include in a new release is actually well thought out (tags in 10.9 aren't, and of course they removed the perfectly valid file highlighting to make way for that) and include 99% of the features that anything you're replacing had.

    I could frankly care less about this PrimeSense bullshit, and I dread whatever product Apple is trying to stuff it into next. I just want them to fix the stuff they already have, and start releasing hardware and software that I can stop worrying about ("is the next upgrade going to break all my software again?"... "what features that I rely on today are they going to remove tomorrow?"... "what horrible design decisions are they going to force on me next month?"...).