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.
  • Users of those services will be steered toward the web
  • Searches indicate apps from Meta may also be unavailable

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  • aluminium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    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!

    • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      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

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    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?

  • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    168·
    2 years ago

    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?