{"id":609178,"date":"2025-12-03T08:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609178\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:39:12","slug":"vision-pro-m5-review-its-time-for-apple-to-make-some-tough-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609178\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision Pro M5 review: It\u2019s time for Apple to make some tough choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still think there\u2019s significant room to grow, but the content situation is better than ever. It\u2019s not enough to keep you entertained for hours a day, but it\u2019s enough to make putting on the headset for a bit once a week or so worth it. That wasn\u2019t there a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The software support situation is in a similar state.<\/p>\n<p>App support is mostly frozen in the year 2024<\/p>\n<p>Many of us have a suite of go-to apps that are foundational to our individual approaches to daily productivity. For me, primarily a macOS user, they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefox<\/li>\n<li>Spark<\/li>\n<li>Todoist<\/li>\n<li>Obsidian<\/li>\n<li>Raycast<\/li>\n<li>Slack<\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio Code<\/li>\n<li>Claude<\/li>\n<li>1Password<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, I don\u2019t use most of Apple\u2019s built-in apps\u2014no Safari, no Mail, no Reminders, no Passwords, no Notes\u2026 no Spotlight, even. All that may be atypical, but it has never been a problem on macOS, nor has it been on iOS for a few years now.<\/p>\n<p>Impressively, almost all of these are available on visionOS\u2014but only because it can run iPad apps as flat, virtual windows. Firefox, Spark, Todoist, Obsidian, Slack, 1Password, and even Raycast are all available as supported iPad apps, but surprisingly, Claude isn\u2019t, even though there is a Claude app for iPads. (ChatGPT\u2019s iPad app works, though.) VS Code isn\u2019t available, of course, but I wasn\u2019t expecting it to be.<\/p>\n<p>Not a single one of these applications has a true visionOS app. That\u2019s too bad, because I can think of lots of neat things spatial computing versions could do. Imagine browsing your Obsidian graph in augmented reality! Alas, I can only dream.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Vision-Pro-apps-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"none large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n      You can tell the native apps from the iPad ones: The iPad ones have rectangular icons nested within circles, whereas the native apps fill the whole circle.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          Samuel Axon<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not such a huge productivity software geek like me and you use Apple\u2019s built-in apps, things look a little better, but surprisingly, there are still a few apps that you would imagine would have really cool spatial computing features\u2014like Apple Maps\u2014that don\u2019t. Maps, too, is just an iPad app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I still think there\u2019s significant room to grow, but the content situation is better than ever. It\u2019s not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-609178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115654741469007053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}