Just Break the Law, Apple
John just wants Apple to break the law. It's for our own good.
Podcast: Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode: 662: Just Break the Law
John
I’m talking about the M2 Vision Pro in 2025. This is old news, I know, but it’s not old news for me. But anyway, you’ve heard people complain that when they demo, it’s hard to demo things because when you try to get somebody to watch video and you’re mirroring what they see on your laptop screen or something, it blacks out because of stupid copyright stuff.Casey
It’s the worst.John
It’s so frustrating. Here’s the thing that I didn’t fully understand or have forgotten. when you do that and by the way the reason we’re mirroring what they see on the screen because otherwise try explaining it’s like playing charades. Try explaining to somebody who’s never used vision pro what they’re supposed to do without being able to see what they’re seeing.John
I’d only use it for like a day before i gave my wife a demo so it’s not like i’ve memorized every pixel that’s going to be on the screen but it really is like describe to me what you see it’s like trying to do tech support over the phone with somebody because they can see stuff but you can’t see it so that’s why apple provides this great feature where you can see a version of what they’re seeing on your laptop screen or whatever.John
That’s really helpful because then you can see what they’re seeing although you also see their foveated rendering so a lot of times it’s blurry you’re like go look over there look over there anyway as soon as you bring them to like okay go to the tv app go to this thing you know run the play this immersive demo uh you can’t see it on your laptop screen laptop screen goes black because it’s immersive video goes around everythingCasey
which that is that is totally fine and i’m not that aggrieved by thatJohn
well it’s stupid but okay. But also i mean inside the headset they only see blackness too but it still plays the video so they hear the sound they’re like it took me a while to even realize it’s just like am i supposed to be seeing something i’m like but i could hear the audio playing because she didn’t have headphones using the the speakers and the straps and she’s like i’m supposed to be seeing something.John
like she just sees blackness but it tries to play it anyway that is insane like i get that you can’t show it on two screens it once showed on one and then as we said in the past when we talked about Apple, it’s your own video.John
Like, break the law, Apple. This is a rare case where I’m saying, Apple, just break the law. Civil disobedience. Literally implement this thing that violates the HGCP standard. Break the law. See if somebody comes for you. No one’s going to care because nobody has Vision Pros. No one is pirating things by mirroring the foveated rendering of a Vision Pro on a laptop and then screen recording it. We have way better ways to pirate things. Nobody would want that.John
Just break the law. All right? And see if somebody comes through. You’ve got so much money. I believe you could defend this lawsuit. Maybe we’ll change the HCCP standard. Apple, you need to break the law. Because this is so stupid.