Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future

Re:Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a G... by vismwasm on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:07PM (#39195838)

I thought I was the only one bothered by that! I'd love to use my private iPad with my work Macbook. And at least in my case preventing that definitely won't increase iPad sales: My company won't provide me a work iPad and even if it did it wouldn't work as there are no iCloud accounts attached to our work Macbooks.

Locking you customers into your ecosystem? Fine, whatever. But even within the ecosystem restricting usage in such a way!?

It's been said for years but the iPad could be so much more than a mere media consumption device if it weren't for short-term-profit driven design decisions.

Maybe they do better with the Vision Pro.

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Re:Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a G... by dwaite on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:51PM (#39196371)

Basically the business and education group is about selling to businesses and schools, so they give them the tools they say they need. This means you wind up having configuration options which sound good to operations, but which break ecosystem support - and on BYOD break personal usage.

Literally the only cloud drive product I know of which doesn't work on my corporate laptop is iCloud Drive, because the EMM gave a checkbox to set a flag. As a result, a huge portion of built-in collaborative features and apps just don't work. I have paid seats in other products only to regain functionality lost by that checkbox.

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