Google’s YouTube and Spotify Technology SA, the world’s most popular video and music services, are joining Netflix Inc. in steering clear of Apple Inc.’s upcoming mixed-reality headset.

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.”

  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    7•10 months ago

    If you’ve worked with Apple’s universal apps, you know that it’s never truly free. Supporting the platform always brings new platform-specific bugs, platform-specific regression testing needs, product / design support for platform-specific experience quirks.

    It’s going to be some amount of work, for an audience that will likely be small at first, on a platform that is already supported by the company’s web experience. IMHO “wait and see” is the prudent approach.

    • @fidodo
      1•10 months ago

      Just navigating their shitty submission process is a ton of work on its own.