- Users of those services will be steered toward the web
- Searches indicate apps from Meta may also be unavailable
Bypass paywall: https://archive.ph/4kfYI
Okey, so Apple would have to make client apps to those services by themselfs… Oops! All proprietary.
Or, a web browser…
Or iOS compatibility. But every layer of software stack is making every app less capable for hardware specific functions.
Yeah MS tried this with youtube. But got shut down fast
I wonder if Apple’s continued 30% crusade is a factor.
I’d guess it’s mostly just a low volume set of use cases. So few people are on iVision (my new name for this) that it doesn’t make sense to devote development time to it.
Same problem the windows phones had
The vast majority of “apps supported on Vision” will act as a floating screen in front of you. So essentially the same as a typical iPad app. Doubt it takes any development time at all
Have you ever worked with Apple SDKs? They’re kinda a mess. They’d still need a dedicated team to build, support and manage the app, and they clearly don’t feel it’s worth it.
It’s still 4-5 full time developers at least. Probably a full few teams also including marketing, legal and a few other departments.
this is pure speculation, I am not a developer
The same could be said of iPhone apps on iPad but Apple still forces you to make specific dev for the iPad.
This is how Windows Mixed Reality operated (Back when UWP was still a thing) and it actually worked great.
All you have to do is not block the iPad app though.
This is just businesses slowly shrinking back to their actual valuation. No one’s shelling out a thirty percent gratituity just to be involved with very expensive vr.
Pretty much every other platform charges 30% too. Steam? 30% Xbox? 30% PlayStation? 30% Google Play? 30% Samsung Galaxy Store? 30% YouTube Ad Revenue? 45%!
The only one that doesn’t is Epic, which charges 12% and recently it came out that they were struggling to make the store profitable.
So, not sure why Apple gets singled out here.
Thats a big oof. Imagine buying this thing, going into the Appstore and not even finding YouTube and Spotify! Would immediately dampen my mood.
This feels a bit like Smartwatches (Android Wear and Apple Watch) all over again for me. Where already at launch the third party “App” selection was really underwhelming with Major Apps like Youtube, Spotify, … absent and it never getting much better.
But I get it. Apple always talks a big game about how much they love developers and how awesome they are but in reality they treat them like shit. Now Apple needs them and they give Apple this middle finger. Rightfully so!
You could just load them in The web app anyways. It wouldn’t make sense for them to put dev resources on building an app for an unproven platform.
For now
We’ll see how it goes if the device sell well.
It’s a super expensive VR device, no way it sells well at that price. --we’ll see how this comment ages
Anyone knows the Reddit replacement for RemindMe! around here?
Why bother putting in the effort of developing and testing an app for a totally new platform that Tim Apple and 3 other people will use?
As a practical matter all they have to do is not proactively block their iPad apps from being available, which is the default.
Literally zero effort: Their iPad app is available for the Vision Pro and works perfectly fine.
Minor effort: Block the iPad app from being available.
Extra effort: make a specialized visionOS app that takes advantage of additional hardware features.
Is that Dave2D out of focus?
Pretty sure. He’s been rocking the longer hair for a little while now.
makes plenty of business sense to wait until millions have shipped and yet before competition eats their lunch. what about steam? open brush? what killer app would you wait for?
“Meta may also be unavailable”
That’s soooooo shocking /s
Why would meta rush to have apps on its biggest competition
Big whoop
