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At the end of the day the Apple Vision Pro is an iPad with an infinite screen and window management. If you can work on an iPad you can work better in the AVP.

At the end of the day the Apple Vision Pro is an iPad with an infinite screen and window management. If you can work on an iPad you can work better in the AVP. That’s not the case for me and it’s not the case for many people here at least. The AVP is an amazing content consumption device but not at the current price point IMHO. I’ve written daily about my experience with the AVP [0] and I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t think it’s for me right now. I have zero doubt I will buy a future iteration of this device but this version doesn’t cut it for me. I went in eyes wide open, no pun intended, to the AVP. I knew from the start that it was a v1, early version, and essentially a dev kit++. I said in comments here on HN that returning it was always on the table for me. I’m going to give it a few more days but as things stand now, be retuning mine. Apple has created something magical and they knocked it out of the park but it needs improvements to become something I want to wear all the time. Improvements that I believe that Apple will make, that’s Apple’s super power, commitment. They don’t always follow through (the Mac for many years or things like the HomePod) but when they do they create amazing things. Heck, the iPad is something I build on top of (as does my company) because I/we know Apple is committed to it in a way that you can’t say for any other tablet maker. I can’t wait for fitter iterations of this device and for it to have its retina/iPhone 4 moment. [0] https://joshstrange.com https://joshstrange.com

Terretta 3y ago
Having used iPad Pro as daily driver since release of magic keyboard with trackpad, I agree with this take. In particular, if you already use the new iPadOS "Stage Manager" with your business, productivity, and code apps in workspace clusters, you can use all the same apps, tools, and workflows as easily, plus spatial affordances. Note that any iPad app, if pulled close to you to be about iPad sized within half an arm's reach, can be touched, scrolled, manipulated as if a literal iPad screen. This even works with apps such as Microsoft Whiteboard within Teams, you can write on the shared whiteboard with your fingertip. Of course, lack of solidity makes this far less precise than the literal iPad. If you find the iPad Pro w/ Magic Keyboard and Trackpad and the Stage Manager approach to multi-task work constraining relative to laptop, you will be even less happy with AVP. PS. This laptop and tablet case is one of the slimmest that carries both Macbook Pro 16" together with iPad Pro 13" in its Magic Keyboard w/ Trackpad "case" sleekly with plenty of space for all accessories: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y2Y9PYM/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y2Y9PYM/ It has a particularly nice pull strap that lifts the iPad out from the iPad slot. Carrying this case means you always have both with you. If your use of the iPad is so comfortable you prefer to reach for that over the Macbook for most things even when both are at hand, going to the Macbook only when you need to do something in terminal you can't do in Blink shell, you will probably be fine for remote work using AVP.

Terretta 3y ago

Having used iPad Pro as daily driver since release of magic keyboard with trackpad, I agree with this take. In particular, if you already use the new iPadOS "Stage Manager" with your business, productivity, and code apps in workspace clusters, you can use all the same apps, tools, and workflows as easily, plus spatial affordances. Note that any iPad app, if pulled close to you to be about iPad sized within half an arm's reach, can be touched, scrolled, manipulated as if a literal iPad screen. This even works with apps such as Microsoft Whiteboard within Teams, you can write on the shared whiteboard with your fingertip. Of course, lack of solidity makes this far less precise than the literal iPad. If you find the iPad Pro w/ Magic Keyboard and Trackpad and the Stage Manager approach to multi-task work constraining relative to laptop, you will be even less happy with AVP. PS. This laptop and tablet case is one of the slimmest that carries both Macbook Pro 16" together with iPad Pro 13" in its Magic Keyboard w/ Trackpad "case" sleekly with plenty of space for all accessories: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y2Y9PYM/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y2Y9PYM/ It has a particularly nice pull strap that lifts the iPad out from the iPad slot. Carrying this case means you always have both with you. If your use of the iPad is so comfortable you prefer to reach for that over the Macbook for most things even when both are at hand, going to the Macbook only when you need to do something in terminal you can't do in Blink shell, you will probably be fine for remote work using AVP.