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The iPad was also supposed to compete with your laptop, and it has partly succeeded, though nowhere near as much as the most hopeful fans were expecting. The V
by simiones 3y ago
The iPad was also supposed to compete with your laptop, and it has partly succeeded, though nowhere near as much as the most hopeful fans were expecting.
The VisionPro is a far less comfortable, far less portable, more power-hungry version of an iPad, with a few gimmicky 2.5D/3D stuff built in, for $3500. Is it really going to take anyone away from a laptop? Perhaps, but not that many people.
- ladberg 3y agoI personally think it'll come a lot closer to replacing my laptop than my iPad did. I used my iPad on a daily basis in college for taking notes and doing homework but largely haven't touched it in the few years since. My work setup is basically just ssh + VSCode Remote + browser (on multiple screens) so it could easily be ported over to Vision Pro in a way that the iPad with its single screen couldn't support.
- CrackerNews 3y agoMy question is how easily portable a laptop experience is to Vision Pro? At the very least you might have to be tethered to a Mac, and that seems like barely scratching the surface compared to porting iPad apps to visionOS.
- ladberg 3y agoFor the use case I described you don't have to be tethered to a Mac but I do all my development on a remote linux box so I wouldn't really be compiling or accessing the command line on a Vision Pro. Tbh I think that just a web browser is enough for most of what people do on a daily basis. I mean, how often do you use an application on your laptop that's not the browser, Electron apps, or something that's already fully ported to iPad? For me personally that only leaves out local development for side projects, but the rest is easily translatable.