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YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 10 months ago by fer0n to c/apple_enthusiast

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YouTube said in a statement Thursday that it isn’t planning to launch a new app for the Apple Vision Pro, nor will it allow its longstanding iPad application to work on the device. YouTube, like Netflix, is recommending that customers use a web browser if they want to see its content: “YouTube users will be able to use YouTube in Safari on the Vision Pro at launch.”

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[–] Nogami 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apple is a content producer now too and has much deeper pockets than their competition.

Why would the competition want people to buy into another cutting edge Apple product when they may want to develop their own solution to view their programming?

[–] sosodev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your argument doesn’t make any sense. Spotify isn’t going to produce an AR headset and really doubt Netflix will either. It makes more sense for them to release apps for the device if they think it’s going to be successful.

[–] Nogami 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You understand competitor right? They are content competitors, not hardware.

[–] sosodev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s my point. If they believe the hardware will be successful they would want to release apps for it that give them the ability to capture and retain customers. As it stands Apple headset users can only really consume Apple content. So it’s much more likely they just don’t believe in the product not that they’re scared.

[–] Nogami 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know they don’t need to develop custom apps right? They’ve even specifically disallowed their iPad app to run. That’s the action of a scared company.

[–] sosodev 1 points 10 months ago

No… that’s the decision of company who doesn’t want to invest in a new platform. They’d rather disable the app than support the users there.