YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix

the ipod filled a hole in the market. wtf is this solving for?

Okey, so Apple would have to make client apps to those services by themselfs... Oops! All proprietary.

I wonder if Apple's continued 30% crusade is a factor.

Why bother with making any apps these days when you can just build a web app and have it work across platforms.

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.

Is that Dave2D out of focus?

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?

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

Nice of Google to let us know we can just use Safari with Adblock, SponsorBlock, DeArrow and Vinegar to have a better experience than with their app.

Why would meta rush to have apps on its biggest competition

Big whoop