More Than Just Code podcast - iOS, visionOS and Swift development, news and advice · Tim Mitra, Jaime Lopez Jr, Mark Rubin

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·1 hr 54 min·5 clips

Vision Pro is described as a future computing platform rather than a dead-end product.

Tim opens with the cross-country roll call. The group spends a minute on time zones, Arizona's no-daylight-saving habit, and the sort of clock confusion that only seems funny when everyone on the call is already in a good mood. After that, the conversation settles into the device habits that keep showing up in developer life. Tim talks about buying an M1 iPad for Stage Manager, using it for five minutes, and then watching it become a desk-bound machine while a newer iPad Air goes to his wife. Vision Pro changes that equation for him. He says there are tasks he now does in Vision Pro that he would have done on an iPad before, especially the casual second-screen stuff that comes up while watching movies. That leads to a broader question about when new hardware actually earns its place. The tone stays practical, because nobody is pretending every shiny device changes life on day one. Jaime then brings the discussion into banking. He says AR and Vision Pro are not top of mind for his industry and suggests it may fit manufacturing or aerospace better than it fits a bank. The group does not leave it there. They imagine a banking app that shows balances as stacks of cash, then push the joke a little further by asking how many stacks disappear after buying a new M5-powered MacBook Pro. That bit lands because it turns digital finance back into something physical. The episode keeps circling back to the same question. What do people actually feel when a tool, a screen, or a device changes the way they work? The answer is rarely as neat as a product keynote wants it to be. The banter around snow, Texas, Phoenix, and the Pacific Northwest keeps the pace loose. It also gives the conversation a lived-in feel, like a developer hang that happens to be recorded. By the end, the hosts are less interested in selling a futuristic vision than in poking at where the real friction is. That makes the episode useful for listeners who care about Apple-platform work, product tradeoffs, and the gap between a demo and daily use.

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A practical chat about device upgrades, Vision Pro, and where AR might fit in everyday work.

The episode stays grounded by treating device upgrades, Vision Pro, and banking software as a question of how new tools actually fit day-to-day work.

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